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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter AI model that it says rivals Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, and plans to release its full model weights by July 27 — Today, we are introducing Kimi K3 — our most capable model. Kimi K3 is a 2.8T-parameter model built on our Kimi Delta Attention …
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Kimi K3 takes #1 on the Frontend Code Arena benchmark, surpassing Claude Fable 5, and scores 88.3 on Terminal Bench 2.1, trailing only GPT-5.6 Sol's 88.8 — Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup backed by Alibaba, on Thursday released Kimi K3 …
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| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple has sent personal legal warnings to ~40 former employees who now work at OpenAI, directing them to preserve documents and meet with its lawyers — iPhone maker steps up aggressive tactics in trade secrets dispute with AI lab. Apple has targeted dozens of OpenAI employees …
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| Reuters: |
At the World AI Conference, Xi Jinping touts open-source AI, pledges to help the Global South build AI capabilities, and calls unequal AI access an “injustice” — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday cast Beijing as the champion of a new global AI order, using China's premier tech conference …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Netflix says ~300 titles on its app used generative AI in 2026, mostly in post-production, “to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost” — Some titles used AI to create ‘enhanced crowds, historical battle sequences, and worldbuilding establishing shots.’
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| Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: |
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
In an internal meeting, Satya Nadella criticized Claude Fable 5 for being “editorially controlled”, saying its refusal to do “any random thing” makes no sense — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees Wednesday that Anthropic's limits on requests that users submit …
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Source: Microsoft plans to release an AI security tool this month that uses models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and itself, as a cost-effective alternative to Mythos — Microsoft is preparing to release a new AI security product, internally codenamed Project Perception, to capture a piece of companies' rising cyber defense spending.
| Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable: |
A NY school district is piloting Realbotix's humanoid robot teacher to help STEM students; Realbotix rebranded after acquiring sex doll company RealDoll in 2024 — A New York school district is piloting a humanoid robot teacher to help students with summer school classes.
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| George Steer / Financial Times: |
US stocks of chip, memory, and storage makers fell sharply on Thursday; SNDK closed down 12.63%, STX 10%, Western Digital 9.15%, Intel 5.84%, and Micron 5.65% — Investors pull away from shares in companies that have led markets higher this year — Investors have dumped US tech stocks … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro as it tries to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding; GOOG closes down 4.43% — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: the EU is set to approve the $55B acquisition of EA under its subsidy rules on July 30; the deal includes Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity — A group of investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is set to secure European Union approval for its $55 billion acquisition …
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| Madison Muller / Bloomberg: |
Kalshi launches a biotech pilot, starting with 13 biotech contracts offering wagers on the outcomes of late-stage clinical drug trials and regulatory decisions — Kalshi to Offer Betting on Drug Trial Results — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 63.68% Playback Rate
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
San Francisco sends legal notices to Apple and Google, demanding they take down 13 AI apps used to make deepfake nude images; Google says it deleted five apps — The City Attorney's Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 … | Rocket Drew / The Information: |
Source: UK robotics startup Humanoid raised $150M in the first tranche of a Series A at a $1.2B pre-money valuation and seeks another $80M-$100M by September — Humanoid raised $150 million in the first tranche of a Series A funding round that values the London-based robotics company at $1.2 billion …
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Z.ai is on track to achieve an annual recurring revenue of $1B, a first for a Chinese AI company, after achieving its full-year sales target in July — Z.AI is on track for annual recurring revenue of $1 billion, a significant ramp-up for an enterprise-focused AI startup trying …
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| Eno Sarris / The Athletic: |
Memo: MLB bans the use of league-provided dugout iPads to access GenAI for in-game strategy calls; sources say at least a third of teams used AI this way — In a crackdown that has rankled some front offices across the league, Major League Baseball has effectively outlawed the growing practice …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Coatue is leading a $3B investment in Databricks that values the data analytics software company at $188B, a 40% increase from its December valuation — Startup's valuation jumps 40% as AI boom drives demand for its data-analytics software — Coatue Management is leading …
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| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
AI inference startup General Compute gets a $400M loan from tech investment firm Upper90, seemingly the first deal using inference-specific chips as collateral — General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, has landed a $400 million loan from Upper90, a tech investment firm.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tata plans India's first large-scale chip fab in Dholera, Gujarat, mostly using 90nm nodes, a far humbler start than the 28nm node it touted earlier — Tata Electronics Pvt. is preparing to make India's first semiconductor wafers on far older technology than it originally expected …
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Court doc: a US federal jury says Japanese chipmaker Kioxia owes Viasat $229M for infringing Viasat's flash-memory patent that helps devices use less energy — A federal jury in Waco, Texas said on Thursday that Japanese chipmaker Kioxia (285A.T) owes satellite-communications company Viasat …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The EU accepts X's plan to meet DSA transparency obligations and give researchers access to data, giving X six months to implement it, following a €120M fine — The European Union, which fined Elon Musk's social media network X €120 million ($137.2 million) last year … Sponsor Posts
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