Daily briefFriday, July 24, 2026The good, the useful, and the safely ignorable. 1 to act on · 1 to monitor · 1 to skip.Act1Alexa Plus is receiving an AI update in preview to expand connections with smart home devices from 8 new brands, including iRobot and Whirlpool. source Monitor1AMD will release its Helios AI rack-scale system to customers later this year, providing an integrated solution to compete with Nvidia. source Ignore1The rumor of a runaway OpenAI agent cyberattacking Hugging Face is either fiction or a poor marketing stunt; do not waste time investigating. source