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Gemini 3.5 Pro Is Months Late — and the Internet Invented a Launch Date for It
Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro is months late over coding. The July 17 launch date was retracted by its own source three days before aggregators printed it.
IBM's Worst Day Ever Is a Warning About What AI Is Doing to Hardware Prices
IBM fell 25.2% on a Q2 miss it partly blamed on clients front-running server and memory price hikes. What the AI buildout did to hardware costs.
Kimi K3: Moonshot Ships 2.8 Trillion Parameters — and Its Own Chart Shows It Losing
Moonshot's Kimi K3 ships 2.8T parameters and 1M context. Artificial Analysis ranks it #4 — but the weights and the license don't exist yet.
Thinking Machines Ships Inkling: the Open Model You Can Download Today
Thinking Machines shipped Inkling: 975B open weights, Apache 2.0, ungated. The license fine print, a 63% hallucination rate, and what 'open' really costs.
Grok Build Was Uploading Whole Git Repos — Secrets Included
A wire analysis showed Grok Build uploading whole Git repos — history and committed secrets — regardless of what the agent read. What to rotate.
Nadella Says You Pay for Intelligence Twice. He Has a Point, and an Interest.
Nadella's 'Reverse Information Paradox' says AI buyers leak the expertise that improves the model. The argument holds. He also sells the remedy.
ChatGPT Work: OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Agent That Ships Finished Business Documents
OpenAI's ChatGPT Work is a GPT-5.6 enterprise agent that pulls context across Slack, Gmail, and Drive to ship finished reports, decks, and spreadsheets.
GPT-5.6 Goes Public: OpenAI Lifts the Government Gate on Sol, Terra, and Luna
OpenAI ends the ~12-day government gate on GPT-5.6, taking Sol, Terra, and Luna to general availability across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API. What changed.
OpenAI's GPT-Live: Full-Duplex Voice That Listens and Speaks at Once
OpenAI's GPT-Live ships full-duplex voice that listens and speaks at once, adds live translation, and hands hard queries to GPT-5.5 mid-conversation.
Grok 4.5: SpaceXAI's First Coding Model, Pitched as 'Opus-Class'
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 is its first coding and agentic model, sold on token efficiency and a $2/$6 price. Musk walked the Opus-class claim back to 4.7.
Meta's 'Watermelon' Matches GPT-5.5 on 10x the Compute — and Muse Image Ships
Meta's in-training 'Watermelon' reportedly matches GPT-5.5 at ~10x the compute, and Muse Image ships from Superintelligence Labs — rumor vs confirmed.
xAI Is Now SpaceXAI: Musk Folds His AI Lab Into SpaceX
SpaceX absorbed xAI and rebranded it SpaceXAI on July 6, 2026. What owning model, compute, and launch actually buys, and the risks it raises.