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July 13, 2026, 5:10 AM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is already taping out M7 with major NPU upgrades, and plans M7 Ultra with 1.5TB RAM, and M8, for 2028; new Pencils are coming with a new iPad Pro  —  Also: New Apple Pencils are coming.  —  Apple's new Mac chip road map represents the company's latest move to rebuild …
The Economic Times:
Anthropic says it is “extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19”  —  In a post on X, the company said, “We're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude …
Bloomberg:
OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI may be able to put pressure on Anthropic by emphasizing cost efficiency, as business customers increasingly scrutinize AI spending  —  Three prominent artificial intelligence developers released new models over the past week.  They all promise to be more advanced …
Benedict Evans:
Sam Learner / Financial Times:
AI coding tool users are flooding open-source projects with low-quality contributions, overwhelming maintainers and potentially eroding community engagement  —  Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web's unsung human caretakers.  If you are reading the digital version …
Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI:
Open-weight AI models are facing an existential policy test in the US, with Anthropic leading a campaign against Chinese models over distillation concerns  —  Staring down the barrel of policy action that could make open models a permanent second class citizen.  —  ∙ Paid
Bloomberg:
Memo: Tang Jie, founder of Z.ai, the Chinese lab behind the GLM models, argues frontier AI capabilities should stay “as open and widely accessible as possible”  —  The founder of Chinese AI lab Zhipu argued that frontier artificial intelligence should remain broadly accessible rather …
Aarian Marshall / Wired:
Docs: Uber lobbied for a “phased transition” to AVs, giving it an edge over self-driving developers; Uber says AV industry proposals overlook drivers' rights  —  In at least two places, Uber has pushed a policy that could give it an advantage over developers of self-driving cars.
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Nathaniel Rich / New York Times:
A look back at the 2007 heist of a Verizon data center in London, highlighting the role of physical data security as cyber defenses grow more sophisticated  —  Terry Ellis's fixer wore an overcoat, a multicolored ascot, a Rolex.  He had a husky voice and a good suntan.
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple's OpenAI lawsuit follows months of simmering tensions and highlights OpenAI's hardware chief Tang Tan's strained relationship with former boss John Ternus  —  When iPhone engineer Chang Liu quit for a job at OpenAI's nascent hardware division, Apple Inc. says he left with more than just years of experience.
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