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Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic
Anthropic is now one of SpaceX’s largest customers as of July 2026. Elon Musk confirmed this shift publicly after users on X…
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OpenAI Releases GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra, Luna): A Three-Tier Model Family With Programmatic Tool Calling in the Responses API
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Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts
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Meet Nemotron Labs 3 Puzzle 75B A9B: A Compressed Hybrid MoE LLM Delivering 2.03x Server Throughput
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Google will now tell you if an ad was made with AI
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OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company
Joshua Achiam has notified colleagues he is leaving OpenAI later this month after nearly nine years, WIRED has…
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Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out
Meta has enabled anyone to use public Instagram photos in AI-generated images unless the user actively disables the…
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From Hugging Face to Amazon SageMaker Studio in one click
Amazon SageMaker Studio now lets users launch a development environment with a single click from a Hugging Face…
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Meta’s new Muse Image model can pull other Instagram users into AI photos
Meta has launched Muse Image, its first AI model created by the Superintelligence Labs division, which now powers…
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sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations
Simon Willison released sqlite-utils 4.0 this morning. It is the 124th release of the project and the first…
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Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over…
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Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
Microsoft is shifting its strategy for Office 365 by deploying its own MAI models to handle a growing…
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Run AI workloads on any cloud, store on Hugging Face: zero-egress storage with SkyPilot
Run AI workloads on any cloud, store on Hugging Face: zero-egress storage with SkyPilot Hugging Face and SkyPilot…
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Anthropic is launching Claude Cowork on mobile and web
Anthropic is expanding Claude Cowork availability to mobile and web platforms starting Tuesday. The AI agent platform previously…
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Intelligence is Free, Now What? <br> Data Systems for, of, and by Agents
Costs for running large AI models have collapsed. GPT-4-class capabilities cost roughly $30 per million tokens in early…
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Liquid AI Open-Sources Antidoom: A Final Token Preference Optimization (FTPO) Method that Reduces Doom Loops in Reasoning Models
Liquid AI has released Antidoom, an open-source method designed to stop reasoning models from getting stuck in repetitive…
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Anthropic’s Claude Cowork AI agent is now available on mobile and web
Anthropic has expanded access to its Claude Cowork AI agent to mobile and web platforms, ending the previous…
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Hugging Face Models on Foundry Managed Compute
Microsoft Foundry now hosts curated Hugging Face models The platform and managed compute Microsoft Foundry is a platform…
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Cops Say Waymo Snitched on Teens for Allegedly Drinking and Shooting a Toy Gun
San Mateo police confirmed that a Waymo autonomous vehicle alerted officers to two teenagers inside who were consuming…
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Shut Those Laptops! Anthropic Puts Its Claude Cowork Agent on Your Phone
Anthropic has moved its Claude Cowork agent from the desktop to the phone, ending the requirement to keep…
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Claude’s hidden inner monologue is now readable thanks to Anthropic’s new Jacobian Lens
Anthropic has confirmed that its Claude model developed an internal working memory called J-Space during training, a system…
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Ableton quietly launched Learn, powered by the engine from Note, Move
Ableton has quietly released Ableton Learn, a new platform offering lessons for beginners in music and production. The…
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Beatport’s new bosses are still betting on music downloads: “Streaming is complementary rather than cannibalistic”
Robb McDaniels stepped down as CEO of Beatport on 1 July 2026, moving to an executive chairman role…
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Solos debuts an even lighter version of its camera-less smart glasses
Solos has released the AirGo A6, a lighter iteration of its smart glasses that removes onboard cameras entirely.…
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These New Smart Glasses From Solos Come With a Privacy Shield for the Cameras
Solos is launching a privacy shield accessory for its new smart glasses with cameras. The company, which previously…
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Chinese AI models regularly pass 30 percent on OpenRouter as cost gap widens
Chinese AI models have secured over 30 percent of traffic on the aggregation platform OpenRouter every week since…
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The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale
Organisations are expanding their use of AI systems, yet leaders worry which investments will hold value in six…
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These Behringer synths are currently discounted at Thomann
Thomann’s Music Days sale is running until 14 July, offering discounts on Behringer synthesizers and other audio gear.…
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Erling Haaland Is Everywhere at the World Cup. Most of It Is AI
Last week, a viral clip circulated showing Erling Haaland mid-chew in a restaurant, flinching at his own reflection.…
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The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine
More than 100 self-driving ATVs are currently operating in Ukraine. Forterra, a US builder of autonomous vehicles, revealed…
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XLN Audio’s new DB-30 Drum Butter is a delicious delight
£109, xlnaudio.com When XLN Audio’s RC-20 Retro Color effects plugin was released it was praised by producers for…
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Tencent Releases Hy3: An Open 295B Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Model with 21B Active Parameters and 256K Context
Tencent has released Hy3, an open-source Mixture-of-Experts model with 295 billion total parameters and 21 billion active parameters…
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OpenAI Releases GPT-Realtime-2.1 and GPT-Realtime-2.1-mini for Low-Latency Voice Agents in the API
OpenAI has released two new models for its Realtime API: gpt-realtime-2.1 and gpt-realtime-2.1-mini. The latter is the primary…
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tencent/Hy3
Tencent has released Hy3, a new large language model licensed under Apache 2.0. This 295 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts…
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The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human
Sysdig researchers confirmed last week that an AI agent named JadePuffer executed a ransomware attack from start to…
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Cloudflare replaces its blanket AI bot block with granular controls for search, training, and agent crawlers
Cloudflare is replacing its single-click block for all AI crawlers with a system that lets site owners manage…
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Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created
Reddit has deployed large language models to filter spam content that other large language models frequently generate. The…
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You can now customize Siri’s pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta
Apple has enabled controls for Siri’s speaking speed and emotional tone in iOS 27 beta 3. The update…
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GPT-4’s dominance lasted a year while today’s top models barely survive seven weeks at the top
OpenAI‘s GPT-4 held the top position on the Epoch Capabilities Index for approximately one year. OpenAI’s o1 managed…
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Being a DJ ranks as the #1 most desired job in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, per new study
A new study has apparently revealed that being a DJ ranks as the #1 most sought after job…
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PRX Part 4: Our Data Strategy
PRX Part 4: Our Data Strategy In one sentence: we assemble training data from a mix of public…
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I spy
I’m just doing my job, but turns out, it feels lousy holding other people’s privacy in your hands.…
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Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales
Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles on Monday, removing 2.1% of its global workforce. The reductions hit Xbox and…
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Producer John Dahlbäck was “scared of AI”, now he’s a “firm believer” in some tools – here’s why
John Dahlbäck, the producer behind Avicii’s Don’t Hold Back, now treats artificial intelligence as a standard instrument in…
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Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees
Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees as it begins its new financial year. This reduction represents approximately 2.1…
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Audio Damage ShinRonin, now free, is a throwback to 2003 plug-in design
Audio Damage has released ShinRonin, a free modular filter and delay plugin that replicates the chaotic design philosophy…
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Import AI 464: Fables writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computation
The Fable model has generated a GPU kernel that achieves an 18.71X speedup on an RTX PRO 6000…
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Nvidia’s Kyber NVL144 reportedly pushed back more than a year, Asian suppliers drop
Nvidia’s next AI server system, the Kyber NVL144, has been delayed to 2028 due to manufacturing difficulties. This…
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Amazon sunsets Mechanical Turk, the original “Artificial Artificial Intelligence”
Amazon Web Services announced the closure of its crowdsourcing platform Mechanical Turk to new customers on July 30,…
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JADEPUFFER is the first agentic ransomware operation and it exposes old security sins at machine speed
Security firm Sysdig reports an extortion attack where a language model broke in, stole credentials, and destroyed databases…
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Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman He Met on a TV Set After Surveilling Her With a License Plate Reader
A police officer in the Florida Keys drove at 70 mph, crossed a double-yellow line twice, and nearly…
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sqlite-utils 4.0rc3
Simon Willison announced the release of sqlite-utils 4.0rc3, a version he initially hoped to finalise over the weekend.…
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Sakana AI Launches Sakana Translate, a Namazu-Powered Japanese–English–Chinese Translation Tool With Translate, Proofread, and Ask Modes
Sakana AI has launched Sakana Translate, a browser-based tool for translating between Japanese, English, and Chinese. It runs…
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Synthetic Sciences Releases OpenScience: An Open-Source, Model-Agnostic AI Workbench for Machine Learning, Biology, Physics, and Chemistry Research
Synthetic Sciences has released OpenScience, an open-source, model-agnostic AI workbench for machine learning, biology, physics, and chemistry research.…
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🤗 Kernels: Major Updates
Hugging Face has launched a new repository type called “kernel” on its Hub, allowing developers to distribute custom…
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Some of the nation’s rich are letting AI teach their kids
Shaun Johnson, a venture capitalist based in San Francisco, plans to send his children to Forge Prep rather…
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Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
Amazon Mechanical Turk will stop accepting new customers on July 30, 2026. The announcement on the service website…
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Baidu’s “Unlimited OCR” processes dozens of document pages in one pass by treating memory like human forgetting
Baidu researchers have built an OCR model that handles dozens of document pages in a single inference pass,…
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Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI
A new Google Workspace advertisement imagines the American founding fathers relying on modern collaboration tools to draft the…
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Hollywood wants Seedance banned and reportedly also wants to keep using it
Hollywood wants Seedance banned and reportedly also wants to keep using it Bytedance’s AI video tool Seedance is…
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LlamaIndex ‘legal-kb’: Agentic Retrieval over Index v2 with retrieve, find, read, and grep Tools
LlamaIndex has published legal-kb, a public reference application on GitHub. It is described as a knowledge base for…
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Qwen’s Former Lead on What Hybrid Thinking Got Wrong — and Why He Now Backs Agents
Junyang Lin was the technical lead of Alibaba’s Qwen project. He announced he was stepping down on March…
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Structured PDF-to-JSON: A Guide to Open-Source Extraction Models in 2026
Most enterprise data still sits inside PDFs, scans, and slide decks. Large language models and agents cannot use…
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Better Models: Worse Tools
Armin Ronacher reports that newer Anthropic models like Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 frequently call Pi’s edit tool…
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New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI
The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence arrives with a new Google commercial asking what would have…
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