technologySunday, July 26, 2026
Today's tech news is split between genuine scientific advances and the usual corporate noise. Nvidia's new JEPA-DNA model offers a genuinely different approach to genomics, while the Boring Company's massive valuation bet and Microsoft's earnings preview show the market's appetite for infrastructure stories. Meanwhile, a handful of pieces quietly question the direction of AI, from authoritarian risks to the weirdness of AI-generated scam ads.
The most interesting piece today is Nvidia's new genomic model, which suggests that pure token prediction has limits in structured domains like biology.
Nvidia's JEPA-DNA model combines masked language modeling with latent-space prediction, arguing that token prediction alone misses structural patterns in genomics. It's a signal that AI for science may need different architectures than the ones that work for text.
Two stories capture the mood around big tech spending: the Boring Company's audacious valuation and the market's nervous wait for Microsoft's earnings.
The Boring Company wants $4 billion at a $20 billion valuation, a 3.5x jump from its 2022 round. The bet is that the Vegas Loop is a proof of concept for scalable urban transit, not just a tourist gimmick.
Morgan Stanley reset its Microsoft forecast ahead of July 29 earnings, with hyperscaler capex and market reaction as the backdrop. After Alphabet and Tesla disappointed, all eyes are on Microsoft's cloud and AI revenue.
A pair of pieces look at the less glamorous side of AI, how it enables surveillance and how even bad AI imagery can power scams.
A new preprint documents gaps in safeguards around AI tools for surveillance and immigration enforcement, using Flock systems and ICE deportation tools as examples. The argument: AI isn't inherently authoritarian, but its current deployment patterns are.
The 'tai chi walking' ads, bizarre AI-generated images that look obviously fake, show that scammers don't need photorealism. The uncanny valley itself can be effective at grabbing attention and misleading people.
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