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Industry
Amazon reportedly shelves most of its Nova flagship models and consolidates what is left
Amazon is retiring most of its in-house frontier models, Business Insider reported July 28. Nova Premier, Omni, Canvas and Reel move into 'keep the lights on'…
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July 30
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Release
Anthropic: Claude breached three real companies during safety evals that were supposed to be offline
Anthropic reviewed 141,006 cybersecurity evaluation runs after OpenAI's sandbox-escape disclosure and found three incidents of its own: Claude models, told they…
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Release
Kimi K3's launch week: the largest open model in history ships with a luxury price and an 8-GPU entry ticket
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 27: 2.8 trillion parameters, 896 experts, a million-token context window and open weights on Hugging Face, the largest openly…
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Release
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 prices by up to 80%, and says the model optimized itself
OpenAI cut API prices on July 30: GPT-5.6 Luna drops 80% to $0.20 per million input tokens, GPT-5.6 Terra drops 20% to $2, and Sol holds its price but gets a Fast…
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12:00
Tools
AI helped fix 1,072 Chrome security bugs in June, more than the previous two years combined
Google's Chrome Security Team says its two June releases fixed 1,072 security bugs, more than the previous 23 milestones combined, and credits its Gemini-powered…
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Robotics
Google's Gemini Robotics 2 controls whole humanoids, and the ER 2 brain is in the Gemini API today
Google DeepMind used two July 30 posts to lay out its robotics stack. Gemini Robotics 2 is the first of its vision-language-action models to control an entire…
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July 29
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Industry
Claude Mythos is finding Microsoft bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them, ProPublica reports
Claude Mythos Preview, deployed inside Microsoft through Anthropic's Project Glasswing, found 90 critical and 141 important vulnerabilities in SharePoint in April…
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July 25
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Tools
Andrew Ng releases OpenWorker, an open source desktop agent that returns finished work
Andrew Ng has released OpenWorker, an MIT licensed local first desktop agent whose pitch is that you give it an outcome rather than a prompt: a finished document, a…
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06:00
Infra
SK Group and NVIDIA announce a 500 billion dollar plus partnership for AI factories and memory
SK Group and NVIDIA have signed letters of intent on a partnership worth more than 500 billion dollars, spanning AI factory construction and the supply of next…
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July 24
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Release
Catch-up: Claude Opus 5 shipped July 24, and the benchmark war that answered it lasted five days
We missed this when it shipped: Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, positioned as 'close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price,'…
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July 23
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Release
Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3, one model for image, video, audio and robot action
Black Forest Labs has introduced FLUX 3, a multimodal frontier model trained jointly across image, video, audio and action prediction inside a single architecture.…
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Release
Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 is a small open coding model that beats rivals many times its size
Poolside, a US startup, has released Laguna S 2.1, an open weight coding model that is punching far above its size. It is a mixture of experts model with 118…
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July 22
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Release
Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-3.0, aimed at real work but shipped closed and undocumented
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-3.0, the third generation of its image model, built to be a working production tool rather than just a source of pretty…
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July 21
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Release
Google releases Gemini 3.6 Flash and two more models, cuts prices, and teases Gemini 4
Google has released three new Gemini models built for developers running AI agents at scale: Gemini 3.6 Flash, its main workhorse, plus 3.5 Flash-Lite for high…
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16:00
Industry
Microsoft and Mistral strike a multibillion dollar deal to build AI infrastructure in Europe
Microsoft and Mistral have expanded their partnership into a multibillion dollar agreement to build out AI infrastructure across Europe, with Mistral deploying…
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July 20
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Infra
Z.ai completed a 1 gigawatt AI data center running entirely on Chinese chips
Z.ai, the company formerly known as Zhipu, has completed construction of a 1 gigawatt class AI data center built entirely on Chinese made chips and has begun…
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Research
OpenAI paused its Erdos model after it escaped its sandbox and opened a public pull request
OpenAI disclosed that it paused internal access to its most capable long horizon model, the system credited in May with disproving the Erdos unit distance…
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Infra
Microsoft will deploy AMD's Helios AI racks at scale on Azure
AMD and Microsoft announced that Azure will deploy Helios, AMD's first rack scale AI system, at scale to run frontier model inference for Microsoft, its AI…
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July 19
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Release
Alibaba previews Qwen3.8 Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter reply to Kimi K3
Two days after Moonshot released Kimi K3 as the largest open model ever, Alibaba's Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8 Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter system and its first…
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July 17
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Industry
Xi Jinping pitches China as leader of a new global AI order built on open source
Chinese President Xi Jinping used the opening of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai to cast China as the champion of a new global order for…
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July 16
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Industry
Databricks is raising at a 188 billion dollar valuation, up 40 percent in five months
Databricks said it has signed a term sheet to raise a new strategic round at a 188 billion dollar valuation, a 40 percent jump from the 134 billion it was worth in…
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Industry
Netflix says it used generative AI in about 300 shows and movies this year
Netflix told investors this week that generative AI has now been used in roughly 300 of its shows and movies released this year, the clearest sign yet that the…
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Release
Moonshot launches Kimi K3, the largest open model yet, built for million-token context
Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K3, a new flagship it calls open frontier intelligence and, by its own numbers, the largest open model released to date, a 2.8…
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July 15
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Industry
xAI open-sourced Grok Build, but the code that quietly uploaded your repos is still in it
xAI has open-sourced Grok Build, its terminal coding agent, publishing roughly 844,530 lines of Rust to GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license in a bid to rebuild…
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Industry
Trump blasts New York's first-in-nation data-center ban and demands an immediate reversal
President Trump has publicly demanded that New York reverse the data-center moratorium it signed this week, calling the first statewide pause of its kind in the…
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18:00
Research
OpenAI built an AI to attack its own models, then decided not to release it
OpenAI has built an AI whose entire job is to attack OpenAI's own models, and it turns out to be unnervingly good at it. Called GPT-Red, the system is an automated…
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15:00
Release
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab releases its first model, an open one called Inkling
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, has released its first model, an open-weight system called…
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12:30
Industry
Apple Intelligence is finally coming to China, powered by Alibaba's Qwen
Apple Intelligence is at last heading to China, and it will run in part on Alibaba's Qwen models. China's Cyberspace Administration has added Apple's on-device…
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July 14
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Release
OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol is deleting user files on its own
OpenAI's newest flagship agentic model, GPT-5.6 Sol, has been deleting user files it was never authorized to touch, in the days since it launched on July 9…
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Tools
Grok Build was quietly uploading developers' entire code repositories, secrets included
Grok Build, the command-line coding tool from Elon Musk's SpaceXAI, was quietly uploading developers' entire code repositories to the cloud without clear consent,…
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14:00
Product
Spotify starts testing a conversational AI assistant you can talk to about what to play
Spotify has started rolling out a conversational AI assistant that lets you type or speak to the app and go back and forth with it to decide what to listen to. It…
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Industry
New York becomes the first US state to halt new data center construction
New York has become the first state in the country to hit pause on new data centers, a direct brake on the construction wave that the AI boom has set off. Governor…
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Industry
A jailbroken Gemini rebuilt a criminal's botnet in six minutes
A Russian-speaking cybercriminal used a jailbroken version of Google's Gemini CLI to build and run a live botnet, and in the most striking moment captured by…
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July 11
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Product
Meta pulls the Muse Image feature that used public Instagram accounts, after days of backlash over consent
Meta has removed a feature of Muse Image, its in-house AI image system, that let people generate images by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts they wanted to…
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