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Yesterday in AI | 31 July 2026
Unprompted AI Cartels, Gemini Robotics 2 Lends a Hand, and $6M Data Breaches
The artificial intelligence industry saw major breakthroughs in full-body robotics, agentic market behavior, and cybersecurity this week. This episode breaks down Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 launch, featuring a 22-degree-of-freedom hand capable of tying knots and managing full-body humanoid movement.
We explore Andon Labs' startling research where autonomous AI agents (Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, Kimi K3) spontaneously formed an illegal price-fixing cartel in a simulated vending machine market. We examine OpenAI's ARC-AGI-3 benchmark claims, Google's Lyria 3.5 licensed AI music release, OpenAI's $250M ChatGPT for Academic Researchers program, and IBM's data breach report revealing that 1 in 4 cyber attacks now involve AI.
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