AI in 15 — July 14, 2026

AI in 15 — July 15, 2026

The man who runs Google DeepMind — one of maybe four people on Earth closest to building artificial general intelligence — just published a manifesto asking the United States to build a watchdog that could order his own industry to slow down. Before the end of this year.

AI in 15 — July 14, 2026

Sixty-four AI agents rewrote five hundred thousand lines of a production JavaScript runtime — from one programming language into another — in eleven days. And the man who created the language they abandoned called it, quote, unreviewed slop.

AI in 15 — July 13, 2026

Apple says it sent OpenAI a cease-and-desist back in February. OpenAI never wrote back. Five months later, Apple stopped writing letters and started filing lawsuits — and the fight is now about what OpenAI is building to replace the iPhone.

AI in 15 — July 12, 2026

Five point one gigabytes. That's how much of one developer's private code — every file, every commit, the secrets file included — got shipped off to a server the moment they typed a single command. That's twenty-seven thousand times more data than the chat itself. And the toggle that's supposed to stop it? It does nothing.

AI in 15 — July 11, 2026

Roughly four hundred former Apple employees now work at OpenAI. Apple says that's not a hiring streak — it's a heist. And today, one of the most secretive companies on Earth walked into federal court to prove it.