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Today's top AI news stories — 2026-07-30: 1. Microsoft unveils Copilot super app this year Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced on Wednesday's earnings call that the company is launching a unified Copilot 'super app' combining chat, coding, and autonomous capabilities for both consumers an 2. Mark Zuckerberg is planning a big push into personal AI agents Meta is all-in on AI, and sometime soon, the company is going to make a big push into personal AI agents that can do things on your behalf. On Wednesday's Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg pr 3. Meta pushes billions into personal AI agents Mark Zuckerberg outlined Meta's aggressive strategy to develop personal AI agents during Wednesday's Q2 earnings call, signaling the company's major investment pivot. Zuckerberg predicts billions of p 4. OpenAI gives 100K researchers free AI access OpenAI announced it's providing 100,000 academic researchers with free access to its most advanced AI models to accelerate scientific discovery and collaboration. This represents a significant push to 5. Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like a lot of artists, he found it. Full briefing: https://ainews.q-sci.org/blog/post_2026-07-30.html