Pulse Daily — Monday, July 20, 2026
On Monday, July 20, 2026, the AI world converged on three pressure points simultaneously: the World AI Conference closed in Shanghai having birthed a rival intergovernmental governance body with 29 founding nations; Europe's landmark DMA ruling forced Google to open Android's AI layer to all rivals; and Hugging Face disclosed the first confirmed end-to-end autonomous AI cyberattack — while Current AI raised $400M to build a public alternative to Big Tech's AI stack, and Gemini 3.5 Pro's continued delay left Google fighting on every front at once. Stories: WAIC 2026 Closes With WAICO…
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