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Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
China's Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight mixture-of-experts model — the biggest ever — that took the #1 spot on Arena.ai's Frontend Code leaderboard at 1,679 points, ahead of Claude Fable 5. It has a 1M-token context, activates just 16 of 896 experts per token, and full weights are promised on Hugging Face by July 27.
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Anthropic is giving verified US K-12 teachers a full year of free premium Claude, plus a teaching-skills library and curricula mapped to all 50 states' standards. It's built with the AFT, Teach For America, and the Gates Foundation — and it keeps student data out of training.
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Anthropic pushed free Fable 5 access to July 19 — its third extension in 18 days — as GPT-5.6 undercuts it on price and Grok 4.5 goes live. An Opus 5 leak in Cursor fuels the theory that the extensions are a bridge to the next flagship.
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The foundry behind Nvidia's GPUs and Apple's silicon posted an all-time record quarter — NT$1.27 trillion (~$39.6B), up 36% — with June sales rising when they usually dip. The AI buildout no longer follows the consumer calendar.
TechTimes
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Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Snowflake agreed to back ARD — a shared standard for wiring AI agents into business software — framed as "complementary" to Anthropic's MCP, but plainly a bid to stop building on a competitor's foundation.
Crypto Briefing
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Apple filed a blockbuster suit in federal court claiming OpenAI systematically stole its hardware secrets — 400+ ex-Apple employees, "show and tell" interviews with real parts, and an engineer who allegedly kept his Apple laptop and kept downloading.
CNBC
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Nvidia's most important memory supplier began trading on Nasdaq as SKHY, raising about $28 billion — the largest ADR offering in Wall Street history — with the proceeds earmarked for fabs, EUV machines, and the HBM4 that feeds Vera Rubin.
Yahoo Finance
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GPT-Live replaces ChatGPT's turn-based voice with a full-duplex model that listens and speaks at once — it says "mhmm," handles interruptions, stays quiet when you think, and quietly hands hard questions to a frontier model in the background.
OpenAI
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OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6 on July 9 as a three-tier family — Sol, Terra, Luna — after a US-government delay. Sol tops TerminalBench 2.1 at 91.9% and is ~54% more token-efficient on agentic coding, though Anthropic's Fable 5 still leads SWE-Bench Pro.
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The ITU's AI for Good Global Summit takes over Geneva this week, and its Centre Stage opens July 8 with the inaugural meeting of a new 40+ member Global Commission — co-chaired by Rwanda's president and Salesforce's Marc Benioff.
ITU
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A former Bitcoin miner just became an AI landlord: TeraWulf signed a 20-year lease with Anthropic for up to 401 MW at its Kentucky campus, worth about $19 billion — as Anthropic races to lock up compute ahead of its October IPO.
CNBC
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From July 6, Tesla limits employees to $200 a week on AI tools after engineers burned thousands in tokens — but the cap conveniently exempts Musk's own xAI products, Grok and Composer.
The Information
Read more →Spotlighted during OpenAI's global Build Week, ChatGPT Work is a GPT-5.6-powered agent that gathers context from your connected apps and files and produces finished documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and dashboards — working in the background across web, phone, and desktop, with Codex now built into the ChatGPT desktop app.
OpenAI
Read more →Grok 4.5, trained alongside Cursor, doesn't top the leaderboards — Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 still edge it on raw coding benchmarks. But it resolves SWE-Bench Pro tasks in about 15,954 output tokens versus ~67,020 for Opus 4.8, is served at 80 tokens/sec, and costs just $2/$6 per million tokens. xAI's pitch: Opus-class results at a fraction of the time and cost.
xAI
Read more →PrismML has open-sourced Bonsai 27B, a 1-bit build of Qwen3.6-27B that shrinks a model needing ~54GB at full precision down to 3.9GB — small enough to run on an iPhone at 11 tokens/sec while keeping more than 90% of full-precision performance. It's multimodal, handles a 262K-token context, and ships under Apache 2.0.
PrismML
Read more →Thinking Machines Lab's first broadly available model is open. Inkling is a 975B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (41B active), trained on 45T tokens of text, image, audio, and video, with a 1M-token context — released under Apache 2.0 and tuned on the lab's Tinker platform.
Thinking Machines Lab
Read more →In an internal FY27 strategy session, Microsoft told sales staff to pitch its in-house MAI models as cheaper and more efficient than OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google — claiming up to 10× the cost efficiency, and quietly swapping rivals out of Copilot, Excel, and Outlook.
TechCrunch
Read more →Instead of generating one token at a time, NVIDIA's open-weight Nemotron TwoTower denoises whole blocks of text at once. It keeps 98.7% of an autoregressive model's quality while running 2.42× faster — and it was bolted onto a frozen 30B backbone without full retraining.
MarkTechPost
Read more →China's first national rules on 'anthropomorphic' AI took effect July 15, forcing ByteDance's Doubao, Alibaba's Qwen, and Tencent's Yuanbao to shut down user-created AI companions used by hundreds of millions — a design the new law makes almost impossible to keep.
South China Morning Post
Read more →The Future of Life Institute's Summer 2026 index graded nine leading AI labs on safety. Anthropic topped the class with just a C+, OpenAI and Google DeepMind landed at C, Meta got a D+, and xAI, DeepSeek, and Mistral flat-out failed.
Future of Life Institute
Read more →President Lee Jae-myung's ten-year plan — about 1,350 trillion won — pours money into a 'triple axis' of semiconductors, data centers, and robotics: $518B in new Samsung and SK Hynix fabs, 8.4 gigawatts of data centers by 2029, and a push to take 20% of the humanoid robot market.
Al Jazeera
Read more →ByteDance's new flagship image model reasons about prompts, edits with point-and-lasso precision, writes on-image text in 14 languages, and outputs native 2K — at $0.075 an image. Observers already put its quality at GPT Image 2 level.
TestingCatalog
Read more →The Financial Times reports Google told Meta it can't sell all the Gemini capacity it wants — forcing Meta to conserve tokens and delay projects. Even after $180B in AI infrastructure this year, compute has become tech's scarcest resource.
Forbes
Read more →Fresh reports on July 14 say Samsung's foundry has agreed to manufacture Anthropic's first in-house accelerator on its 2-nanometer process — putting the Claude maker on the same custom-silicon path as OpenAI, Google, and Amazon, though neither company has confirmed a deal.
TechCrunch
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