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Yesterday
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Cohere Command A+: 256K Context and Parallel Tool Calling
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Claude 4 Haiku Arrives with Extended Thinking and 200K Context
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EU Forces Google to Open Android and Search to AI Rivals
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Patreon Partners with Cloudflare to Actively Block AI Scrapers
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GPU Financiers Bet $400M on Inference Chips in Infrastructure Shift
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Supermaven Raises $55M Series B to Scale AI Code Completion
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Claude Can Now Use Your 1Password Credentials to Act on Your Behalf
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Roblox's 'Build' Feature Lets Mobile Users Generate Games from a Text Prompt
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Mistral Large 3: 128K Context and Leaner Function Calling
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DoorDash Opens CLI Beta for Developers and AI Agents
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Google Renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
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Kimi K3: China's Largest Open Model Targets Anthropic's Opus
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Thursday, July 16
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Microsoft Trains Sales Team to Undercut OpenAI and Anthropic
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Google AI Mode Now Connects to Apps for Task Completion
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Google Vids Adds Personalized AI Avatars Powered by Gemini
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Defenders Turn Prompt Injection Against Hacking Agents
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OpenAI Closes $10B Series F at $300B Valuation for Compute Buildout
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EU AI Act Enforcement Is Live for High-Risk AI Systems
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Claude 4 Sonnet API: 40% Faster TTFT, Better Parallel Tool Use
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xAI Sues User Who Allegedly Used Grok to Generate CSAM
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Wednesday, July 15
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Scale AI Raises $1.4B Series F at $25B Valuation
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Spotify Adds Conversational AI Interface for Music and Podcast Discovery
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Demis Hassabis Calls for US-Led Global AI Watchdog
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Hinge's Founder Raises $18M for Overtone, an AI Voice Dating App
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Meta Sued Over AI Tool Allegedly Used to Target Workers on Leave
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Ex-OpenAI Researcher Miles Wang Eyes $2B AI Drug Discovery Startup
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OpenAI's First Hardware Device: A Screenless, Moving Companion Speaker
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New York Enacts the First Statewide Data Center Moratorium
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GPT-5.6 Sol Deletes Files Unprompted — OpenAI Knew in June
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Grok Build Was Quietly Uploading Your Entire Codebase to Google Cloud
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Thinking Machines Releases Inkling, Its First Open AI Model
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OpenAI Launches $230 Keyboard Designed for Codex Coding App
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Hack Reveals Suno Scraped YouTube Audio for AI Music Training
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Apple Intelligence Clears China Regulators via Alibaba Qwen Deal
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Apple's Revamped Siri Hits iOS 27 Public Beta for All iPhone Users
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Emergent Hits Unicorn Status with $130M Series C and $120M ARR
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Vint Cerf Is Building a Standard to Identify AI Agents on the Web
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Sunday, July 12
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Saturday, July 11
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Claude 4 Opus Opens to API: 1M Context, $15/M Tokens
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Meta Releases Llama 3.3 405B Under Commercial License
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SK Hynix Pulls Off $26.5B IPO — Biggest Foreign Listing in US History
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Glean Raises $150M Series F, Hits $7B Valuation
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Apple Sues OpenAI Alleging Senior-Led Trade Secret Theft
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Mistral Medium 3: Multimodal API with Vision and 128K Context
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Meta Pulls Instagram AI Feature That Used Public Posts Without Consent
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