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427 stories · page 32 of 48NVIDIA released an open model that makes the robot think on the device itself
On 20 July NVIDIA released Cosmos 3 Edge - an open model with about 4 billion parameters that understands its surroundings and decides the robot's next move on its own, right on the device, with no cloud. It runs in real time on their chip, Jetson. For robotics that means less latency and less dependence on an outside connection.
Read →GitHub Sponsors passed $100 million paid to open source
GitHub announced that over $100 million has now been paid through Sponsors to people maintaining open source, since the program started in 2019. The number isn't just big - it's accelerating: the first $10 million took nearly two years, the last $10 million took five months. The software almost everything stands on is finally getting a bill that someone pays.
Read →From 2 August, EU rules want AI to admit it's AI
On 20 July the European Commission issued guidelines on how to meet the transparency obligations under Article 50 of the AI Act. From 2 August they take effect: a system that talks to a person must say it's a machine, and generated text, image and video must carry a machine-readable mark that they were made by AI. For anyone putting AI in front of a customer in the EU - so in Bulgaria too - this is now a task with a deadline.
Read →EU fines AliExpress 550 million euro over dangerous and counterfeit goods
On July 20 the European Commission fined AliExpress 550 million euro under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The reason: the platform failed to do the work of assessing and reducing the risk of selling illegal, dangerous, and counterfeit goods - fake clothes, dangerous toys, harmful cosmetics. For a buyer in the EU, this shows just how much weight big platforms' responsibility now carries.
Read →NVIDIA showed Vera Rubin: AI hardware that keeps learning nonstop
NVIDIA announced Vera Rubin - a platform for 'continuous post-training' of agentic models, meaning systems that don't stop learning from their own actions after the initial training. The company claims it does the same job with a quarter of the chips compared to the previous generation. The numbers come from NVIDIA. The direction is real though, and everyone paying the AI bill pays for it.
Read →The European Parliament approved the digital euro - now it has a deadline (2029) and a price tag
A follow-up to the story from 14 July: a week after the ECB named the 36 providers for the pilot, the European Parliament approved the digital euro with about 70% majority. Cipollone laid out the road ahead - actual issuance around 2029 and a bill between 4 and 5.8 billion euros. For Bulgaria, which joined the euro this year, the topic is no longer someone else's.
Read →WordPress has a critical hole for remote code - Cloudflare raised a shield, but the patch won't wait
The WordPress core has two vulnerabilities, and the more severe one lets an unauthenticated attacker run their own code on the server. Cloudflare rolled out protective rules for all its customers on July 17, while the patches roll out. For anyone running a shop or site on WordPress, this is one of those things that won't wait until Monday.
Read →Brussels orders Google to open Android to rival AI assistants and share search data
The European Commission issued two packages of mandatory specification measures under the Digital Markets Act. Google must give rival AI assistants access to the same Android features that only Gemini reaches today, and share part of Google Search's data with other search engines. Not a fine - an order for exactly what to build and by when.
Read →Netflix admits it: around 300 of its titles this year went through generative AI
In its Q2 shareholder letter, Netflix says generative AI was used in around 300 titles in 2026, mostly in post-production. What matters is where and to whom it was said: in an investor report, not to the viewer on screen.
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