Tech News Roundup — July 26, 2026 (NOON)

Two tight stories from the morning wire: US legislators are pushing a federal “kill switch” bill that would let the government intervene against rogue AI systems, and Spotify is building its own Shazam-style music recognition tool inside the app to stop sending users to Apple’s and Google’s competing services.

AI / ML

• US lawmakers are drafting a federal “kill switch” for out-of-control AI. A new bill proposed in the wake of rapidly-improving frontier models would give the US government the legal authority to intervene against AI systems deemed to be operating outside acceptable bounds. The proposal is the most direct legislative response yet to concerns about model autonomy and the difficulty of pulling the plug on a deployed system without a built-in circuit breaker. Industry pushback is expected, but the language mirrors what multiple AI safety labs have been quietly asking for over the past year. Pplware

In Brief

• Spotify is preparing an in-app Shazam-style music recognition feature. The streaming service is testing a built-in tool that lets users identify songs without leaving the app — a direct shot at Apple and Google’s matching functionality, which currently forces Spotify users to switch apps to identify a track playing nearby. The move would also give Spotify a much richer first-party dataset of what people are listening to in the real world, separate from the in-app playback stream. Pplware

Roundup compiled from the TTRSS Tech feed. 2 articles from 1 source summarized across 2 sections.