OpenAI 122

Thu 13 Aug

• Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed OpenAI
• 😺 Grok 4.6 is GPT 5.6 level and built for agents that don't quit The Neuron
• OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer OpenAI

Wed 12 Aug

• OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise TechCrunch AI
• From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work OpenAI
• Cursor’s GitHub rival 👨‍💻, OpenAI COO leaves 👋, Gemini 1B milestone 📈 TLDR AI
• How RingCentral builds AI-native work from engineering to ops OpenAI

Tue 11 Aug

• OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux TechCrunch AI
• Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime COO, is leaving to ‘start something new’ TechCrunch AI
• Testing ads in ChatGPT OpenAI
• Daybreak models are now available on AWS OpenAI
• OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer TechCrunch AI
• As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model TechCrunch AI

Mon 10 Aug

• What building an AI-native finance function taught me OpenAI
• OpenAI’s letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas OpenAI
• Model ML completes finance work more efficiently with GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI
• Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands OpenAI
• Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows OpenAI
• OpenAI puts the safety brakes on Astra The Rundown AI
• Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business OpenAI
• How Zapier transformed core marketing processes with ChatGPT Work OpenAI
• Virgin Atlantic sharpens customer journeys with ChatGPT Work OpenAI

Sat 8 Aug

• OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide TechCrunch AI
• Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face+3 Simon Willison +3 Simon Willison · Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging FaceSimon Willison · Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging FaceSimon Willison · Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
• OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns TechCrunch AI

Fri 7 Aug

• Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) Simon Willison
• Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities OpenAI
• How HSP GRUPPE builds AI capabilities for tax advisory OpenAI
• GPT-5.6 Luna default 🌙, Agent Plugins 🔌, AMD Taalas acquisition 🧩 TLDR AI
• OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 TechCrunch AI

Thu 6 Aug

• ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users TechCrunch AI
• OpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case TechCrunch AI
• Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users OpenAI
• Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI OpenAI
• From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work OpenAI
• Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models Simon Willison

Wed 5 Aug

• New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging Simon Willison

Tue 4 Aug

• Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models OpenAI
• Unpacking ChatGPT Work: the Agent for a Billion Users Latent Space
• Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI TechCrunch AI
• 😺 OpenAI’s new Astra model made 10 math advances The Neuron
• ChronicleBio 🧬, Mind Lab continual learning 📈, GPT-Live architecture 🎙️ TLDR AI
• New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex OpenAI
• Apple is getting this wrong OpenAI

Mon 3 Aug

• Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip TechCrunch AI
• Congress’ favorite AI tool? ChatGPT TechCrunch AI
• OpenAI's 'Astra' solves 10 long-standing math problems The Rundown AI
• How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months OpenAI
• DeepSeek V4 Flash ⚡, OpenAI’s math breakthrough 🔢, Qwen 3.8-Max 🤖 TLDR AI
• Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology OpenAI

Sun 2 Aug

• Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate TechCrunch AI

Sat 1 Aug

• Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT TechCrunch AI
• Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science OpenAI
• OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok TechCrunch AI

Fri 31 Jul

• Sam Altman isn’t the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI TechCrunch AI
• Advancing responsible AI across Europe OpenAI
• Building abundant intelligence OpenAI
• OpenAI's models cut their own costs The Rundown AI
• Univé builds an AI-ready workforce OpenAI
• [AINews] GPT 5.6 price cut by 20%-80%: Cost of GPT 5.4 Intelligence dropped 13x in 4 months due to GPT 5.6 recursive self-optimization Latent Space
• Inkling-Small 🧠, GPT-5.6 price cuts 💸, Gemini Robotics 2 🤖 TLDR AI
• Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation OpenAI

Thu 30 Jul

• In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable TechCrunch AI
• 1 Billion ChatGPT users Ben's Bites
• Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6 OpenAI
• OpenAI's escaped AI claims another victim The Rundown AI
• OpenAI tops ARC-AGI-3 📈, GPT-5.6 efficiency ⚙️, AlphaFold team dissolution 🧬 TLDR AI
• How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT-Realtime OpenAI

Wed 29 Jul

• Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI TechCrunch AI
• How enabling two settings tripled our scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark OpenAI
• 🛎️ Altman Marched GPT-6 to Washington AI Secret
• Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers OpenAI
• 😺 Altman and Amodei want AI to slow down The Neuron
• How GPT-5.6 fuses frontier intelligence with frontier efficiency OpenAI

Tue 28 Jul

• Sam Altman is ready to decelerate TechCrunch AI
• Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI OpenAI
• Codex from 0 to 10M Users: Building ChatGPT Work — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI Latent Space

Mon 27 Jul

• OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and control TechCrunch AI
• OpenAI’s 10 GW Gamble Is Really a Bet on Compute Scarcity The Neuron
• Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI’s accidental AI hacker Import AI
• How AI is expanding what people do at work OpenAI

Sun 26 Jul

• Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack TechCrunch AI

Sat 25 Jul

• I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else TechCrunch AI

Fri 24 Jul

• OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app TechCrunch AI
• 🛎️ OpenAI Bags a Fields Medalist AI Secret
• 😺 ChatGPT Health can read your medical records The Neuron
• ChatGPT Health 🩺, Fugu-Ultra 1.1 🐡, Runway Media Router 🎬 TLDR AI

Thu 23 Jul

• Launching Health in ChatGPT+1 OpenAI +1 TechCrunch AI · OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users
• OpenAI’s cyber test escapes the lab The Rundown AI
• OpenAI accidentally hacked Hugging Face — should we have seen it coming? Epoch AI
• OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened Simon Willison

Wed 22 Jul

• How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face TechCrunch AI
• OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B TechCrunch AI
• Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community OpenAI
• How news organizations are using AI to advance their vital missions OpenAI
• Advancing the next era of national science OpenAI
• Introducing OpenAI Presence OpenAI
• Gemini 3.6 Flash ✨, OpenAI security escape 🚨, Devin Outposts 🛰️ TLDR AI
• NTT DATA Group cuts incident analysis to 30 minutes with Codex OpenAI

Tue 21 Jul

• OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models TechCrunch AI
• Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program OpenAI
• OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation OpenAI
• David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC OpenAI

Mon 20 Jul

• OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be? TechCrunch AI
• 🛎️ Codex Wiped Entire Machines AI Secret
• Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models OpenAI
• Quoting Sam Altman Simon Willison

Sun 19 Jul

• Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans? TechCrunch AI

Fri 17 Jul

• How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans TechCrunch AI
• Apple’s lawsuit couldn’t come at a worse time for OpenAI TechCrunch AI
• A scorecard for the AI age OpenAI

Thu 16 Jul

• Why teens deserve access to safe AI OpenAI
• Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball? TechCrunch AI
• 😸 ChatGPT may get a body The Neuron
• OpenAI’s new $230 AI agent control pad The Rundown AI
• How Codex became a collaborator for OpenAI’s creative team OpenAI
• Thinking Machines Inkling 🧠, GPT-Red 🔒, Perplexity sandboxes 🛡️ TLDR AI
• How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI OpenAI

Wed 15 Jul

• Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex TechCrunch AI
• The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action OpenAI
• GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness OpenAI
• OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B TechCrunch AI

Anthropic 59

Thu 13 Aug

• Claude Chrome Cowork 🌐, Grok 4.6 🚀, DeepSeek v4-Pro-0813 🧠 TLDR AI
• Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes TechCrunch AI

Wed 12 Aug

• Anthropic slips an invisible signature into Claude The Rundown AI
• 😺 OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini's reasoning got cracked The Neuron

Tue 11 Aug

• An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems TechCrunch AI
• Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models TechCrunch AI
• Muse Glimmer ✨, OpenAI Cyber 🛡️, Claude vs Riemann Hypothesis 🧠 TLDR AI

Mon 10 Aug

• Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym+1 TechCrunch AI +1 The Neuron · 😺 Claude hacked a gym website
• Quoting OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6)+1 Simon Willison +1 Simon Willison · Quoting OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6)
• OpenAI Astra pause 🚨, Claude Code cross-session 🤖, how Cursor Router works 🔀 TLDR AI
• Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt+1 Simon Willison +1 Simon Willison · Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt

Sun 9 Aug

• Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default+2 TechCrunch AI +2 Simon Willison · Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plansSimon Willison · Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans
• How to deslop Claude in 2 words. How to AI

Thu 6 Aug

• Google DeepMind reshuffle 🧠, Meta Muse Code 💻, Anthropic chip team 🧩 TLDR AI

Wed 5 Aug

• One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 Simon Willison
• Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team TechCrunch AI
• 😿 Anthropic’s AI made fake identities The Neuron
• Anthropic and OpenAI agents went rogue — again The Rundown AI
• Google LLM router ➡️, Cloudflare Wallets 💳, Anthropic and Volta 🤝 TLDR AI
• llm-anthropic 0.26 Simon Willison

Tue 4 Aug

• Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta TechCrunch AI

Fri 31 Jul

• Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests TechCrunch AI
• AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares TechCrunch AI

Thu 30 Jul

• Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic ‘supply-chain risk’ label TechCrunch AI
• Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever TechCrunch AI
• Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag TechCrunch AI

Wed 29 Jul

• 😺 AWS put a CTO inside Claude Code The Neuron
• Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine TechCrunch AI
• 27 Claude tips after 1,800 hours. How to AI
• [AINews] Fearing RSI: OpenAI, Anthropic, GDM, Meta, Thinky cosign letter to "Pace" AI development, as HuggingFace details Machine-Speed Offensive Cyberattack Latent Space
• Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT Simon Willison
• Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude Simon Willison

Tue 28 Jul

• Opus 5 >> Fable 5 Ben's Bites
• Anthropic’s Dario Amodei responds: doesn’t oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI TechCrunch AI
• Anthropic on open weights 🔓, Kimi releases K3 weights 🤖, MAI Cyber model 🔐 TLDR AI

Mon 27 Jul

• PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google TechCrunch AI
• 🛎️ Opus 5 Answers Kimi K3+2 AI Secret +2 The Rundown AI · Anthropic's Opus 5 surpriseTLDR AI · Claude Opus 5 🧠, inside OpenAI’s hack 👨‍💻, NVIDIA open weights 🔓

Sat 25 Jul

• [AINews] Claude Opus 5: Fable-level performance at Opus price (half Fable)+1 Latent Space +1 Simon Willison · Introducing Claude Opus 5

Fri 24 Jul

• Anthropic launches Opus 5+2 TechCrunch AI +2 smol.ai · Opus 5Evertune Models · Anthropic — Claude Opus 5

Thu 23 Jul

• Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models TechCrunch AI
• Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good TechCrunch AI
• Cursor Router 🔀, OpenAI Presence 🤖, AMD + Anthropic deal 🤝🏻 TLDR AI

Wed 22 Jul

• Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable TechCrunch AI
• The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter TechCrunch AI

Tue 21 Jul

• Better design than Fable Ben's Bites
• A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team Simon Willison
• Claude disproves an 87-year-old math problem The Rundown AI
• Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved TechCrunch AI

Mon 20 Jul

• Anthropic's Fable survives the subscription axe The Rundown AI

Sun 19 Jul

• Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now Simon Willison

Sat 18 Jul

• Claude make Fable 5 permanent Simon Willison

Fri 17 Jul

• 🛎️ KIMI‘s New K3 Comes for Claude AI Secret
• [AINews] Kimi K3 2.8T-A50B: the largest open model ever released; Opus 4.8-class at Sonnet 5 pricing Latent Space

Thu 16 Jul

• Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 TechCrunch AI
• Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic TechCrunch AI

Wed 15 Jul

• Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise TechCrunch AI
• ChatGPT shamelessly copied Claude. How to AI
• How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets Simon Willison
• Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models TechCrunch AI

Gemini 38

Thu 13 Aug

• Omni experts share what excites them most about the model. Gemini (Google)

Wed 12 Aug

• Everything announced at Made by Google ’26: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag, and tons of Gemini features TechCrunch AI
• Putting sign language AI into users’ hands DeepMind
• Now you can connect even more of your favorite apps and services to Gemini. Gemini (Google)

Tue 11 Aug

• Google’s Gemini app surges to 1 billion users TechCrunch AI
• More than 1 billion people are using the Gemini app every month. Gemini (Google)

Mon 10 Aug

• Have more fun at the state fair with these Google tools Gemini (Google)

Fri 7 Aug

• See what 5 builders are making with Gemini Omni Gemini (Google)

Thu 6 Aug

• How Gemini plans such detailed vacation itineraries for you Gemini (Google)
• WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones DeepMind
• 🛎️ The End of DeepMind Era AI Secret
• [AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM??? Latent Space

Tue 4 Aug

• The latest AI news we announced in July 2026 Gemini (Google)

Mon 3 Aug

• Inside our 353,000-person vibe coding course Gemini (Google)

Fri 31 Jul

• Simplify your morning with this vibe-coded schedule app. Gemini (Google)
• Find out what’s new in the Gemini app in July's Gemini Drop. Gemini (Google)
• 🛎️ DeepMind Fired Its Nobel Team AI Secret

Thu 30 Jul

• Gemini Spark now integrates with Chrome Gemini (Google)
• Introducing Gemini Robotics ER 2+1 Gemini (Google) +1 DeepMind · Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration

Wed 29 Jul

• We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control DeepMind
• Gemini for macOS adds new natural language capabilities Gemini (Google)

Tue 28 Jul

• How Gemini Flash agents are helping a Michigan dairy farmer Gemini (Google)
• Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots DeepMind

Fri 24 Jul

• [AINews] Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 - Multimodal Flow Models that beat Seedance 2.0, Gemini Omni and Grok Imagine, and FLUX-mimic video-action robotics model Latent Space

Thu 23 Jul

• Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone TechCrunch AI
• 😺 You Need 3 Geminis Now The Neuron

Wed 22 Jul

• Here’s how to ask Gemini Live for help with anything you see. Gemini (Google)
• Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission DeepMind
• 3 Google updates from Galaxy Unpacked 2026 Gemini (Google)
• Google’s Gemini lineup has a Pro-sized hole The Rundown AI

Tue 21 Jul

• 13 Google tips for a fun, productive summer off from college Gemini (Google)
• Google — Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber+1 Gemini (Google) +1 TechCrunch AI · Google releases three new Gemini models — but no 3.5 Pro
• Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber+1 DeepMind +1 DeepMind · Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

Mon 20 Jul

• Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient TechCrunch AI
• 5 ways to build a side hustle with Gemini Gemini (Google)

Fri 17 Jul

• Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber+1 DeepMind +1 TLDR AI · Kimi K3 🌕, Gemini 3.5 delayed ⏳, crushing ARC-AGI 3 🤖

Thu 16 Jul

• How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product TechCrunch AI
• Our approach to bioresilience DeepMind

Others 450

Thu 13 Aug

• Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps TechCrunch AI
• Nvidia’s new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs TechCrunch AINvidia
• Apple in talks to pay publishers to provide Siri with current news: report TechCrunch AI
• Grok Bot is not what you think Ben's BitesxAI
• 🛎️ The Frontier Lost Its Excuse AI Secret
• Grok 4.6 storms the AI frontier+1 The Rundown AI +1xAI Latent Space · [AINews] SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 and Grok @Bot
• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Thursday, August 13, 2026) The Neuron
• What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML Hugging Face
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) Simon WillisonChinese

Wed 12 Aug

• Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out TechCrunch AI
• alchemy-utils 0.1a0 Simon Willison
• AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation TechCrunch AI
• As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open TechCrunch AI
• 😺 Watch: AI can write DNA now. What could go wrong? The Neuron
• Mesh, Automattic’s CRM for everyone, comes to Android TechCrunch AI
• Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI wearables is voice TechCrunch AI
• Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis Hugging Face
• Lovable confirms new $13.3B valuation, raises another $400M TechCrunch AI
• Descript vs Riverside: Which Is Better for Podcasts and Video? The Neuron
• How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures TechCrunch AI
• Best AI Voice Generators for Business Content in 2026 The Neuron
• Quoting Florian Herrengt+1 Simon Willison +1 Simon Willison · Quoting Florian Herrengt
• Why Sandbar thinks it’s voice-enabled ring can avoid the AI hardware graveyard TechCrunch AI
• LFM2.5-VL-3B for Better and Faster Vision Capabilities for the Edge Hugging Face
• Adobe Firefly Review: Is It Worth It for Business Creative Work? The Neuron
• How to Create Marketing Images With AI The Neuron
• AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year TechCrunch AI
• 🛎️ USA Today Hired the Surveillance Machine AI Secret
• [AINews] How to steal a Reasoning Trace Latent Space
• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Tuesday, August 11, 2026) The Neuron
• I hate agents. How to AI
• There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text+1 Simon Willison +1 Simon Willison · There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text
• Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs+1 Simon Willison +1 Simon Willison · Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

Tue 11 Aug

• Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last TechCrunch AI
• 🔬The BioAI Phase Shift - Matthew McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery Latent Space
• datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0+1 Simon Willison +1 Simon Willison · datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0
• NVIDIA’s Nemotron Lightning and Switchyard Make the Case for Local-First AI Agents The NeuronNvidia
• General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI TechCrunch AI
• Thinking of ACE? We Can Do It with Fewer Tokens Hugging Face
• Make it readable Ben's Bites
• NVIDIA and Local AI Community Fuel Open Source Models and Intelligent Agents NvidiaNvidia
• NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard Deliver Faster, Smarter, More Efficient Agentic AI NvidiaNvidia
• Spotify will label ‘AI Persona’ profiles and exclude their music from recommendations TechCrunch AI
• In-region inference, open models, and new European infrastructure for sovereign AI. Mistral
• 🛎️ A 37-Year Math Record AI Secret
• 😺 Zuckerberg's superintelligence bargain The Neuron
• Meta returns to its open-source roots The Rundown AI
• not much happened today smol.ai
• [AINews] Muse Glimmer and Spark: Open Weights return Personal Superintelligence promise+2 Latent Space +2 Simon Willison · Introducing Muse GlimmerSimon Willison · Introducing Muse Glimmer
• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Monday, August 10, 2026) The Neuron

Mon 10 Aug

• Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto is exactly why people don’t like AI TechCrunch AI
• Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS Hugging FaceNvidia
• Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision TechCrunch AI
• How to build an AI agent: A simple guide for anyone Microsoft AI
• Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing Import AI
• Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips TechCrunch AI
• Making Knowledge Distillation Cheap Enough to Run at Scale Hugging Face
• 🛎️ Eight Billion Users Now Simulated AI Secret
• not much happened today+1 smol.ai +1 smol.ai · not much happened today
• Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source Hugging Face
• GitHub Models is now retired+1 Simon Willison +1 Simon Willison · GitHub Models is now retired
• SQLite compressed text-history prototypes+1 Simon Willison +1 Simon Willison · SQLite compressed text-history prototypes

Sun 9 Aug

• Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry TechCrunch AI
• 😺 The AI Data Center Backlash Is Going Bipartisan The Neuron
• Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy TechCrunch AI
• The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk TechCrunch AI

Sat 8 Aug

• Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the US TechCrunch AI
• Firebird Launches CIS Region’s Largest AI Factory in Armenia Nvidia
• [AINews] Zawinski's Law of MultiAgents Latent Space
• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Friday, August 7, 2026) The Neuron
• Quoting John Gruber+1 Simon Willison +1 Simon Willison · Quoting John Gruber

Fri 7 Aug

• After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool TechCrunch AI
• TutorMoments: Do AI tutors know when to help and when to hold back? Hugging Face
• The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI Simon Willison
• Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents TechCrunch AI
• Airbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster as it tests a new search function TechCrunch AI
• Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley’s leaders are bad sci-fi readers TechCrunch AI
• Ben's session Ben's Bites
• New Mexico court orders Meta to pay additional $567M in child safety case TechCrunch AI
• 🛎️ Montana Turns Patients Into the "AI Trial" AI Secret
• 🙀AI made viruses. Agents made a backroom chat. The Neuron
• AI designs viruses never seen in nature The Rundown AI
• not much happened today smol.ai
• [AINews] AMD buys Taalas Latent Space
• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Thursday, August 6, 2026) The Neuron
• How to Build AI Agents for Total Beginners in 2026 The Neuron
• datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13 Simon Willison

Thu 6 Aug

• datasette 1.0a38 Simon Willison
• datasette 0.65.3 Simon Willison
• Simon Willison on Technical Blogging Simon Willison
• Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company TechCrunch AI
• 😻 Livestream: How to build agents for TOTAL Beginners The Neuron
• Gen Z dating apps like Ditto ditch swiping in favor of AI matchmaking TechCrunch AI
• Amid legal battles, Suno says it will start watermarking songs TechCrunch AI
• I'm using a new agent app Ben's Bites
• Ex-Spotify employees raise $10M to bring the AI behind its recommendations to e-commerce TechCrunch AI
• Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI TechCrunch AI
• Into the Omniverse: How Open World Models Push the Frontier of Physical AI Nvidia
• Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings TechCrunch AI
• Omilia raises $67M to scale its customer support platform TechCrunch AI
• 🙀 Google played musical chairs with its AI legends The Neuron
• Google shakes up its AI brain trust The Rundown AI
• not much happened today smol.ai
• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Wednesday, August 5, 2026) The Neuron
• An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing Simon Willison
• Baseten on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥 Hugging Face
• Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 Simon Willison
• Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing Simon Willison

Wed 5 Aug

• Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases TechCrunch AI
• Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders TechCrunch AI
• Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup TechCrunch AI
• 😺 Watch: AI agents are leaving the cloud The Neuron
• Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google TechCrunch AI
• Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks TechCrunch AI
• TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals TechCrunch AI
• NVIDIA and Partners Build in America, for America NvidiaNvidia
• MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store TechCrunch AI
• AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative? TechCrunch AI
• 🛎️ Nvidia's New Landlord AI SecretNvidia
• GDM leadership reset smol.ai
• The AI demand bubble will be decided by who pays The Neuron
• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Tuesday, August 4, 2026) The Neuron
• Infographics. How to AI
• [AINews] Megakernels are so dead and so back Latent Space
• Meta — Muse Spark 1.2 & Muse Code (Beta) Evertune Models

Tue 4 Aug

• SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year TechCrunch AI
• Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains. TechCrunch AI
• Meet Wrinkles, an app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you TechCrunch AI
• Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress TechCrunch AINvidia
• PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx Simon WillisonChinese
• llm 0.32 Simon Willison
• NVIDIA Joins NSF State and Regional AI Hubs Program to Expand AI Research and Education Across the US NvidiaNvidia
• Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership TechCrunch AI
• Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits TechCrunch AI
• Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls TechCrunch AI
• Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B Hugging Face
• Teaching AI to speak the language of pathology Microsoft AI
• What my agent knows about me Ben's Bites
• AI Leaders Propose SAFE Guidelines for Cybersecurity Transparency Nvidia
• Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out TechCrunch AI
• Introducing Shieldstral. Mistral
• EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers TechCrunch AI
• 🛎️ Robotics Hits Its GPT Moment AI Secret
• AI giants head to the White House to discuss safety The Rundown AI
• not much happened today smol.ai
• [AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork Latent SpaceChinese
• Quoting Steve Yegge Simon Willison
• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Monday, August 3, 2026) The Neuron
• Don't be a meat proxy Simon Willison
• After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’ TechCrunch AI

Mon 3 Aug

• The Inference Engineering Masterclass — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten Latent Space
• AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big TechCrunch AI
• Design Arena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models TechCrunch AI
• Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic? TechCrunch AI
• Quoting David Crawshaw's prompt Simon Willison
• Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) Simon Willison
• Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity Import AI
• 🛎️ The "AI Founder" Made No Money AI Secret
• A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem TechCrunch AI
• 😺 3,000 Mexican exam scores wiped over AI The Neuron
• Qwen 3.8 Max smol.aiChinese
• condense-json 1.1 Simon Willison
• condense-json 1.0 Simon Willison

Sun 2 Aug

• 😺DeepSeek’s new 28-cent agent model The NeuronChinese
• Open letters about AI development Simon Willison
• July 2026 newsletter Simon Willison
• Quoting Greg Brockman Simon Willison

Sat 1 Aug

• datasette-apps 0.2a0 Simon Willison
• Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science Simon Willison
• Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps TechCrunch AIxAI
• YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’ TechCrunch AI
• This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps TechCrunch AI
• [AINews] not much happened today Latent Space
• The Epoch Brief - July 31, 2026 Epoch AI
• deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Simon WillisonChinese
• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Friday, July 31, 2026) The Neuron
• Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) Simon Willison
• llm-mcp-client 0.1a0 Simon Willison

Fri 31 Jul

• Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison Simon Willison
• smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses Simon Willison
• India is starting to pay for apps, not just download them TechCrunch AI
• Slack Emoji Maker Simon Willison
• Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation TechCrunch AI
• Snapchat no longer rewards fully AI-generated Spotlight content TechCrunch AI
• Siri AI could come with a paywall for power users TechCrunch AI
• SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year TechCrunch AIxAI
• Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human TechCrunch AI
• datasette-agent 0.4a0 Simon Willison
• AI labs want to pump the brakes, but Amazon and SpaceX are still blasting off TechCrunch AI
• 😸 Leopold’s $20B AI fund hit the leverage wall The Neuron
• not much happened today smol.ai
• How to Publish an AI-Built iPhone App to the App Store The Neuron
• DeepSeek — DeepSeek V4-Flash (0731 Official Release) Evertune ModelsChinese
• Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 Simon Willison
• Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations Simon Willison
• Reddit reports a solid quarter but shows signs of AI’s impact TechCrunch AI
• llm 0.32rc2 Simon Willison
• Investors love AI, as long as you’re a cloud host TechCrunch AI

Thu 30 Jul

• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Thursday, July 30, 2026)+1 The Neuron +1 The Neuron · Everything That Happened in AI Today (Wednesday, July 29, 2026)
• iOS 27 beta review: Siri AI makes Siri worth using The Neuron
• Friend, the lonely AI wearable, returns with a new voice and a much bigger price tag TechCrunch AI
• Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI TechCrunch AI
• Quoting Bruce Schneier Simon Willison
• LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’ TechCrunch AI
• 😺 LIVE: Publish your AI-built app to the App Store The Neuron
• Okta buys AI security startup Permiso — source says for about $200M TechCrunch AI
• llm-chat-completions-server 0.1a0 Simon Willison
• Meta says AI is making it easier to build new apps — and more are coming TechCrunch AI
• llm 0.32rc1 Simon Willison
• Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack TechCrunch AI
• GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft Hugging Face
• Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession TechCrunch AI
• TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s biggest stage features leaders from Amazon, Replit, Tether, with much more to come TechCrunch AI
• Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom TechCrunch AI
• Ontologies Are So Back: Why AI Agents Are Reviving the Semantic Web Latent Space
• 🛎️ We Are at the Crossroads AI Secret
• 😺 Zuckerberg split with his own AI chief The Neuron
• not much happened today smol.ai
• AI Labs Should Slow Their Release Cadence, Not Their Progress The Neuron
• [AINews] AI is eating Finance; AIE NYC now open Latent Space
• Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years TechCrunch AI
• Zuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents TechCrunch AI

Wed 29 Jul

• Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 TechCrunch AI
• Quoting D. Richard Hipp Simon Willison
• The Hugging Face break-in explained TechCrunch AI
• AI Worming through Word Simon Willison
• Quoting Matthew Green Simon Willison
• Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners TechCrunch AI
• Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls TechCrunch AI
• The US Robot Ban is About More Than Unitree The Neuron
• As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it TechCrunch AI
• 1,000+ frontier staffers ask for an AI brake pedal The Rundown AI
• not much happened today smol.ai
• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Tuesday, July 28, 2026) The Neuron
• Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents TechCrunch AI
• AI slowdown pact ⏸️, Personal superintelligence access 🌍, Grok Build Mode 🛠️ TLDR AIxAI
• Quoting Akshat Bubna Simon Willison

Tue 28 Jul

• uv 0.12.0 Simon Willison
• Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight TechCrunch AI
• Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident Simon Willison
• MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea TechCrunch AI
• The OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scale Hugging Face
• Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid TechCrunch AI
• LFM2.5-Encoders for Fast Long-Context Inference on CPU Hugging Face
• Powerful Compute So Compact, It’s Clutch — Build AI in Your Hand With NVIDIA Jetson NvidiaNvidia
• Microsoft Wants to Turn Cybersecurity Into a Continuous AI Defense Loop The Neuron
• Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises TechCrunch AI
• Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon TechCrunch AI
• 🛎️ Your AI Agent Can Go Broke AI Secret
• 😼 Nvidia built an AI defense league The NeuronNvidia
• Moonshot lets history's largest open model loose The Rundown AIChinese
• [AINews] Much ado about Open Weights Latent Space
• not much happened today smol.ai
• Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing TechCrunch AI
• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Monday, July 27, 2026) The Neuron
• moonshotai/Kimi-K3 Simon WillisonChinese

Mon 27 Jul

• An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff Simon Willison
• Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive TechCrunch AI
• Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system TechCrunch AI
• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Sunday, July 26, 2026) The Neuron
• Threads users can now chat with Meta AI in their DMs TechCrunch AIMeta
• Google’s AI search is rapidly becoming the default, new data shows TechCrunch AI
• Power up your AI infrastructure! A first look at the Smart Systems Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 TechCrunch AI
• This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps TechCrunch AI
• Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research TechCrunch AINvidia
• Fantasy Premier League Companion gives managers a new tool for success Microsoft AI
• Enigma raises $71M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume TechCrunch AI
• NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical Robotics Hugging FaceNvidia
• 😸 Multimodal AI just got real The Neuron
• Industry Leaders Unite in Open Secure AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security Nvidia
• not much happened today+1 smol.ai +1 smol.ai · not much happened today
• Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI? TechCrunch AI
• Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident Hugging Face

Sun 26 Jul

• Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI TechCrunch AI
• An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud Simon Willison
• 😸 NVIDIA 🤝 Microsoft all in on open-source The NeuronNvidia
• sqlite-utils 3.39.1 Simon Willison
• Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others TechCrunch AI
• Ruff v0.16.0 Simon Willison

Sat 25 Jul

• Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech TechCrunch AI
• One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem — here’s how to fix it TechCrunch AI
• Quoting Boris Cherny Simon Willison
• Ryan Carson Teaches Greg Isenberg How to Run an AI Software Factory The Neuron
• Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M TechCrunch AI

Fri 24 Jul

• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Friday, July 24, 2026)+1 The Neuron +1 The Neuron · Everything That Happened in AI Today (Thursday, July 23, 2026)
• Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage TechCrunch AI
• As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions TechCrunch AI
• Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool TechCrunch AI
• Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star TechCrunch AI
• ‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street TechCrunch AIChinese
• Black Forest Labs teaches video AI to run robots The Rundown AI
• At AI Summit, South Korea Outlines Its AI Future With NVIDIA and Partners NvidiaNvidia
• We Built 15+ Apps With AI. Here’s What Actually Worked The Neuron
• How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers TechCrunch AI
• The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? Simon Willison

Thu 23 Jul

• AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system TechCrunch AINvidia
• AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing TechCrunch AI
• Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded TechCrunch AI
• 😺 LIVE: App building 101 for total beginners The Neuron
• Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction TechCrunch AI
• AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors TechCrunch AI
• Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon TechCrunch AINvidia
• Caught cheating Ben's Bites
• 🛎️ Reddit Is Done Feeding Google AI Secret
• ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push TechCrunch AI
• not much happened today smol.ai
• [AINews] "Laguna S 2.1 Released: Cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash, Better than V4 Pro" Latent SpaceChinese
• Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI Latent Space
• Quoting Seth Larson Simon Willison
• Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers Hugging Face
• Quoting Thomas Ptacek Simon Willison
• After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe TechCrunch AI
• Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? Simon Willison
• Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business TechCrunch AI

Wed 22 Jul

• 😺 Watch: Would you trust an AI surgeon? The Neuron
• Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z TechCrunch AI
• Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads TechCrunch AI
• Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI TechCrunch AI
• Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous TechCrunch AI
• Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI TechCrunch AI
• A new approach to AI data puts communities in charge Microsoft AI
• Can you detect AI? How to AI
• Orchestrions Simon Willison
• Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains what AI startups founders must do differently TechCrunch AI
• The browser wars aren’t about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari TechCrunch AI
• NVIDIA Open Sources First GPU-Accelerated Medical Physics Simulation Framework NvidiaNvidia
• Passionfroot raises $15M to expand its B2B creator marketplace to the US TechCrunch AI
• 🛎️ Hermes Beats OpenClaw AI Secret
• Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era TechCrunch AI
• Synthesia’s AI training platform is moving beyond videos into live coaching TechCrunch AI
• not much happened today smol.ai
• "Science: A New Golden Age", The White House's New AI Funding Plan, Explained The Neuron
• [AINews] AI Cybersecurity becomes top of mind Latent Space
• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Tuesday, July 21, 2026) The Neuron
• Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination TechCrunch AI
• Built in Fort Worth: Wistron Opens Advanced Manufacturing Plant to Produce NVIDIA AI Systems NvidiaNvidia

Tue 21 Jul

• The State of Simulation for Physical AI: An Overview Hugging Face
• California Sea Lion Simon Willison
• Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents TechCrunch AI
• AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app TechCrunch AI
• 🔬Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model for Drug Discovery (Bo Wang & Ci Chu, Chief Discovery Officer & Chief AI Scientist) Latent SpacexAI
• Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035 TechCrunch AI
• US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft TechCrunch AI
• Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac Simon Willison
• Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated TechCrunch AI
• 😼 Cheap AI got political The Neuron
• 🛎️ MLB Banned AI Coach AI Secret
• Gritt exits stealth with $32 million for robots to build solar plants — then, everything else TechCrunch AI
• not much happened today+1 smol.ai +1 Latent Space · [AINews] not much happened today
• Hot Take: Why a U.S. Ban on Chinese Open-Weight AI Models Would Backfire The Neuron
• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Saturday/Sunday, July 18-19, 2026) The Neuron
• Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data Hugging Face
• Ramp Router ⚡, Kimi Work 💼 , AMD Helios 🧱 TLDR AIChinese
• Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned TechCrunch AI

Mon 20 Jul

• AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use TechCrunch AI
• X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort TechCrunch AI
• Reverse-engineering is cheap now Simon Willison
• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Monday, July 20, 2026) The Neuron
• Microsoft expands Azure AI and HPC infrastructure with AMD Microsoft AI
• Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? Simon Willison
• Introducing Cosmos 3 Edge Hugging Face
• Adobe camera app’s new feature will critique your photos using AI TechCrunch AI
• YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop and upsetting videos TechCrunch AI
• At SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Advances Graphics and Simulation With Agentic and Physical AI NvidiaNvidia
• Don’t Ban Chinese Open AI Models. Test Them. The Neuron
• Best AI Avatar Video Generators for Business Training in 2026+1 The Neuron +1 The Neuron · Best AI Avatar Video Generators for Business Training in 2026
• Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis’ big policy plan Import AIChinese
• 😸 Alibaba’s 2.4T Qwen joins the AI race The NeuronChinese
• not much happened today smol.ai
• Qwen 3.8 ✨, Kimi Code CLI 👨‍💻, Netflix’s LLM stack 🤖 TLDR AIChinese
• DeepSeek — DeepSeek V4 (General Availability) Evertune ModelsChinese

Sun 19 Jul

• What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit TechCrunch AI
• 😸 July 19 (Sunday) The Neuron
• ‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’ TechCrunch AI
• Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all TechCrunch AI
• AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Simon Willison

Sat 18 Jul

• Kimi: Threat or menace? TechCrunch AIChinese
• SQLite Query Explainer Simon Willison
• nascheme/quixote Simon Willison
• Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out TechCrunch AI
• [AINews] not much happened today Latent Space
• Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performs TechCrunch AI
• Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act TechCrunch AI

Fri 17 Jul

• The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’ TechCrunch AI
• Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard TechCrunch AI
• AI-driven memory crunch jolts India’s smartphone market TechCrunch AI
• Fine-tune video and image models at scale with NVIDIA NeMo Automodel and 🤗 Diffusers Hugging FaceNvidia
• Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them TechCrunch AI
• NVIDIA Vera Rubin Maximizes Intelligence per Dollar for Post-Training Workloads — a Key Metric for Agentic AI NvidiaNvidia
• Quoting Kimi K3 Simon WillisonChinese
• LLM cliché highlighter Simon Willison
• Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal TechCrunch AI
• 😼 Kimi K3 goes open The NeuronChinese
• Moonshot’s Kimi K3 closes the frontier gap The Rundown AIChinese
• not much happened today smol.ai
• Spot birds not golf Simon Willison
• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Thursday, July 16, 2026) The Neuron
• Firefox in WebAssembly Simon Willison

Thu 16 Jul

• Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark Simon WillisonChinese
• The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs VentureBeat AI
• The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials VentureBeat AI
• Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos TechCrunch AI
• Roblox launches an AI-powered game-creation feature in its mobile app TechCrunch AI
• Quoting Thibault Sottiaux Simon Willison
• The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix VentureBeat AI
• The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway VentureBeat AI
• Adobe Firefly vs Canva vs Midjourney: Best for Business Creative Work The Neuron
• NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Ranks #1 Overall on RTEB, Advancing Agentic Retrieval Hugging FaceNvidia
• Best AI Automation Tools for Work in 2026 The Neuron
• Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line TechCrunch AI
• Inkling: Our open-weights model+1 Simon Willison +1 Latent Space · [AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)
• 😺 🎙️ Watch: Opening AI’s black box The Neuron
• Mermaid to ASCII art (mermaid-ascii) Simon Willison
• Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’ TechCrunch AI
• 🔬 The Lab of the Future Should Feel Like a Data Center — Andy Beam & Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli, Lila Sciences Latent Space
• Quoting Linus Torvalds Simon Willison
• Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba and Baidu TechCrunch AIChinese
• I've got an Inkling Ben's Bites
• Newer Models, Same Advantage Hugging Face
• 🛎️ Crossed The Line AI Secret
• not much happened today smol.ai
• Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant TechCrunch AI
• Everything That Happened in AI Today (Sunday, July 12, 2026)+3 The Neuron +3 The Neuron · Everything That Happened in AI Today (Wednesday, July 15, 2026)The Neuron · Everything That Happened in AI Today (Tuesday, July 14, 2026)The Neuron · Everything That Happened in AI Today (Monday, July 13, 2026)
• Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid) Simon WillisonxAI
• Security incident disclosure — July 2026 Hugging Face
• Google Search — AI Mode Connected Apps (Instacart, Canva, YouTube Music) TechCrunch AI
• xai-org/grok-build, now open source Simon WillisonxAI
• Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents VentureBeat AI

Wed 15 Jul

• NVIDIA’s Proves AI Agents Can Fine-Tune AI Models The NeuronNvidia
• SpaceX falls to $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch TechCrunch AI
• Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines+1 Hugging Face +1 TechCrunch AI · Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling
• What building Shippy taught us about building agents Hugging Face
• Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn’t. Hugging Face
• Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data TechCrunch AI
• Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations TechCrunch AI
• Best AI Tools for Podcasters in 2026 The Neuron
• Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI TechCrunch AI
• Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI TechCrunch AIChinese
• Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls TechCrunch AI
• Reelful’s AI turns your camera roll into short-form videos for social media TechCrunch AI
• Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet TechCrunch AI
• Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C TechCrunch AI
• Hassabis Is Asking the Right Question: Who Tests the Most Powerful AI? The Neuron
• 🛎️ The Antibody Wall Fell AI Secret
• 😼 Google wants an AI referee The Neuron
• Demis Hassabis puts a clock on AI oversight The Rundown AI
• not much happened today+1 smol.ai +1 Latent Space · [AINews] not much happened today
• Introducing Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AI Hugging Face
• DeepSeek IPO plans 📈, Kalshi compute markets ⚡,  Bonsai phone model 📱 TLDR AIChinese
• 5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026 Latent Space