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Amanda Caswell / Tom's Guide:
xAI introduces Grok 4, trained on its Colossus supercomputer, with multimodal features, faster reasoning, Grok 4 Voice, Grok 4 Code, a new interface, and more  —  Deeper thinking and greater reasoning is promised  —  An hour after the live stream was supposed to start last night (July 9) …
@artificialanlys:
Artificial Analysis benchmarks: Grok 4 is now the leading AI model, a first for xAI; Grok 4's per-token pricing is more expensive than Gemini 2.5 Pro's and o3's  —  xAI gave us early access to Grok 4 - and the results are in. Grok 4 is now the leading AI model. We have run our full suite of benchmarks and Grok 4 achieves an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index of 73, ahead of OpenAI o3 at 70, Google Gemini 2.5 Pro at 70, Anthropic Claude [image]
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
xAI launches Grok 4 Heavy, a “multi-agent version” of Grok 4 that offers increased performance, and unveils SuperGrok Heavy, a $300/month AI subscription plan  —  Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, late on Wednesday released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 4, and unveiled …
Herb Scribner / Axios:
Elon Musk addresses Grok's antisemitic replies, saying that “Grok was too compliant to user prompts” and “too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially”
Joe Tidy / BBC:
UK police arrest four people, a 20-year-old woman and three men aged 17 to 19, in connection to the M&S and Co-op hacks that began in mid-April and caused havoc  —  Four people have been arrested by police investigating the cyber-attacks that have caused havoc at M&S and the Co-op.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta offered Ruoming Pang a $200M+ pay package over a several-year period, in line with its other major AI hires; Apple didn't try to match the offer
Kalley Huang / The Information:
In an internal Meta essay, an outgoing AI researcher says Meta's “culture of fear”, with performance reviews and rolling layoffs, is like “a metastatic cancer”
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X: @luke_metro and @amir
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
The EU publishes a voluntary code of practice to help companies follow its AI Act, including requiring developers to provide up-to-date AI feature documentation  —  The European Union published a code of practice to help companies follow its landmark AI Act that includes copyright protections …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
A researcher says 245 extensions with nearly 909K downloads override security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites for a paid service  —  Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google adds image-to-video generation to Veo 3 in the Gemini app for Pro and Ultra subscribers, and says users have created 40M+ videos since Veo 3's May launch  —  Google said on Thursday it's adding an image-to-video generation feature to its Veo 3 AI video generator through its Gemini app.
Danielle Broadway / Reuters:
SAG-AFTRA says Hollywood video game voice and motion capture actors signed a new contract with game studios, including AI protections like consent requirements  —  Hollywood video game voice and motion capture actors signed a new contract with video game studios on Wednesday with a focus …
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act requires all new US border surveillance towers to be “autonomous”, effectively granting Anduril a monopoly on tower contracts  —  Anduril Industries is a major beneficiary of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which includes a section that essentially grants …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Linda Yaccarino told close contacts that some advertisers returning and xAI acquiring X, which effectively demoted her, made it a good time to depart  —  The X CEO stabilized the social-media company's ad business, but contended with an erratic boss and pressure to move faster
Will Knight / Wired:
The Allen Institute for AI launches FlexOlmo, an LLM architecture that lets data owners remove their data from an AI model even after it was used for training  —  A novel approach from the Allen Institute for AI enables data to be removed from an artificial intelligence model even after it has already been used for training.
Emily Sundberg / Feed Me:
Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie is launching a biweekly column on Lachlan Cartwright's Breaker, a publication hosted on Substack rival beehiiv  —  Good day to be the CEO of beehiiv.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Good morning everyone.  Your song of the summer might be Sabrina Carpenter's Manchild or Morgan Wallen's What I Want.
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