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July 9, 2026, 9:40 AM

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Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg:
SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to “handle difficult, long-running tasks” across finance, legal, and coding  —  SpaceXAI has unveiled a new artificial intelligence model built in partnership with AI coding startup Cursor that's meant …
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OpenAI:
OpenAI launches GPT-Live, new voice models powering ChatGPT Voice and built on a full-duplex architecture, meaning they can listen and speak at the same time  —  A new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction, now powering ChatGPT Voice.  —  Sign up to be notified
Lawrence Bonk / Engadget:
Leaked renders via Android Headlines show the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8, Z Fold 8, Watch 9, and Watch Ultra 2; the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is likely the new wide foldable  —  The company has an Unpacked event scheduled for July 22.  —  Official renders for a bunch of Samsung products just leaked, according to reporting by Android Headlines.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Interpol and law enforcement agencies arrest 5,811 suspects and seize $293M in an operation combating social engineering scams and fraud across 97 countries  —  Law enforcement agencies have arrested 5,811 suspects and seized $293 million in illicit assets in a global anti-fraud operation spanning 97 countries.
Emma Whitford / Inside Higher Ed:
A Brown University professor suspected his class used AI to cheat after a take-home midterm averaged 96%, prompting an in-person final, which averaged 48.6%  —  Brown University leaders' response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said.
Aaron Tilley / The Information:
PrismML says it ran a 27B-parameter Qwen 3.6 model on an iPhone 17 Pro, bigger than any prior on-device model; sources: Apple held talks with PrismML about it  —  Apple is on a quest to shrink powerful AI models to run on iPhones, which could cut down on cloud computing costs and enhance user privacy.
OpenAI:
OpenAI says it found widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro, estimates ~30% of tasks are broken, and retracts its earlier recommendation to adopt the benchmark  —  Through a detailed audit, we find widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro and estimate that ~30% of the tasks are broken.
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Enterprise AI agent startup Lyzr is raising a $100M Series B at a ~$500M valuation, up from $250M in a Series A in 2026, and says agents wrote investment memos  —  A startup that helps enterprises build AI agents proved the technology's value in the most practical way possible: by deploying one during its own fundraising.
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Ollama, which helps developers run open-weight AI models locally, raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Venture, following a $15M Series A led by Benchmark  —  The popular open source AI tool Ollama has raised a $65 million Series B, led by Theory Venture, founder and CEO Jeff Morgan tells TechCrunch.
Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
Block agrees to pay $45M and offer live customer support for Cash App to settle claims by 46 US states that the company failed to protect users from fraud  —  Block (XYZ.N) has agreed to pay $45 million and offer live customer support for its mobile payment service, Cash App …
Reuters:
Internal memo: Meta plans to begin production of its in-house AI chip, codenamed Iris, in September, and aims to boost its computing power to 14GW in 2027  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) plans to start manufacturing an artificial intelligence chip from September as part of its plan …
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