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Today's top AI news stories — 2026-07-29: 1. AI leaders sign a statement asking the government to do something about automated AI Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowd 2. AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous It's earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion - from the last quarter's projection of up to $190 billion. 3. Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual deepfakes, and the popular open-source AI model repository is doing very little to prevent it. That's according to a new report published by the Europe 4. Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots. 5. Data centers face potential power cuts on US grid Grid operators on America's largest power grid are considering temporary data center blackouts to prevent widespread outages as AI infrastructure construction accelerates faster than power generation Full briefing: https://ainews.q-sci.org/blog/post_2026-07-29.html