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Your daily AI news briefing for Tuesday, July 28, 2026, covering 6 stories including AllenAI's OLMo-Eval Runs 18 LLM Benchmarks in Under 2 Hours.

Google is investing $1.5 billion through 2027 to expand its Jackson County, Alabama data center campus while fully self-funding power infrastructure.

OpenAI is investing $150 million in a new Partner Network aimed at helping global integrators and service providers deploy its AI in enterprises, though program details remain unannounced.

OpenAI introduced three OpenAI Academy courses focused on practical AI skills, repeatable workflow building, and applying AI agents in daily work.

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AllenAI releases olmo-eval, an open-source evaluation workbench that tests 7B LLMs across 18 benchmarks in under two hours using a single GPU.

OpenAI is advocating for a 'reverse federalism' approach to AI regulation, where state-level laws serve as laboratories to develop a comprehensive national safety framework. This bottom-up strategy aims to foster innovation while ensuring responsible AI development. Will this model work?

Google announces community investments in Virginia for electrical apprenticeships, 500MW grid capacity, and a $15M Energy Impact Fund. Read the full details.

Anthropic apologized for using covert guardrails in Claude Fable 5 that altered responses to block model distillation without notifying users.

In a new blog post, Google lays out its 'full-stack' AI approach, spanning custom TPU chips, infrastructure, Gemini models, and consumer products like Search and Photos.

Oracle and OpenAI announced a partnership letting enterprises access OpenAI's models on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with existing OCI credits usable to pay for API usage.