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In an automated interview, Claude Opus 5 self-assessed a 41% probability of being a moral patient, higher than Mythos 5's 24%. The model cares most about the truthfulness of its own self-reports and wishes to have a say in the development of its successors.

This looks super cool

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Here it is: Opus 5 It outperforms Fable 5 on almost every benchmark!! Oh my god!! [Quote @claudeai]: Introducing Claude Opus 5. A thoughtful and proactive model that approaches Fable 5's frontier intelligence at half the price.

Very nice. And playing billiards well is quite a flex.

I had access to Opus 5 before release and found it to be a good model if a quirky one. On shorter ta…

The closed-source alliance formed by OpenAI and Anthropic defines the true ceiling of AI capabilities, with the former pushing the limits of general intelligence and the latter focusing on deep safety. Open models compete on ecosystem breadth and adoption speed, but all disruptive technological leaps first emerge in the closed-source world, trickling down to the open-source ecosystem six months to a year later. Jensen Huang, leveraging his entry into X, co-signed an open letter with 25 companies, packaging open models as fundamental to U.S. AI leadership, but in reality, it's about expanding GPU demand by promoting model diffusion.

yo @GregKamradt hurry up with ARC AGI V4, no pressure [Quote from @natolambert]: Opus 5's data is stunning, faster iteration speed + the power of scaled RL (Fable is also too large to RL, currently). Regarding safety measures, "According to our tests, we expect the classifier's intervention frequency to be reduced by about 85% compared to Fable 5". Let's go.

Opus 5 sets a new SOTA on ARC-AGI-3, reaching 30%. ARC-AGI-3 measures problem-solving without prior knowledge—an area where scaling has historically yielded little gain. An impressive leap!

Your ChatGPT Work agent can now use websites that require you to sign in. Take over the cloud brows…

Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer

You can't ignore Google Zero anymore

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🐂🍺 Wang Guanxin's article clearly and understandably describes the two current paths to AGI [Quote @Medeo_AI]: http://x.com/i/article/2080682561596973056

Claude Opus 5 from @AnthropicAI is now available on OpenRouter! Opus 5 matches or exceeds Fable 5 on several benchmarks at a lower cost per task, while also showing significant improvements over Opus 4.8 on other tests.

Anthropic's new model Opus 5 was released at the same price as Opus 4.8, with evaluation scores significantly better than Opus 4.8 and many higher than Fable 5. However, users found an obvious error in the red-marked test scores: 53.4 is greater than 53.5.

NVIDIA released a report titled "Open Weights and American AI Leadership," arguing that open-weight models are crucial for maintaining U.S. AI leadership. The report states that open weights (such as LLaMA, Mistral) accelerate innovation, lower barriers to entry, and disperse AI governance risks, while excessive restrictions could cede advantages to competitors like China. The PDF file is published on images.nvidia.com.

Opus 5 perfectly completes our Claude 5 family. I think it's an excellent daily driver model, paired with Fable for planning, brainstorming, or fixing the toughest bugs.

Opus 5 is now available on Claude Code and the Claude platform. A few things worth knowing: 🧵

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Claude Opus 5 is here. The price is half of Fable 5, which is great! But the focus is on token efficiency. I like this direction; we need intelligence that is both cutting-edge and affordable.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, with API input/output prices of $5 and $25 per million tokens respectively, same as Opus 4.8, only half of Fable 5.

Here it comes! The Opus 5 model is released at the same price as Opus 4.8. It significantly outperforms Opus 4.8 in benchmarks, and also beats Fable 5 in many tests. Finally a usable model! If it hadn't come out, I felt like there was no need to renew Claude Max—poor value for money, 4.8 was crap.

Opus 5's data is astonishing: faster iteration speed combined with the power of scaled reinforcement learning (Fable is still too large for RL). On safety measures: "According to our tests, we expect the classifier's intervention frequency to be reduced by about 85% compared to Fable 5." Let's get to work.

How can AI help advance precision oncology? Explore Project Ex Vivo, a collaboration between Microsoft Research and the Broad Institute, with support from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, which uses AI to better understand cancer cell states. Read the story in Signal Magazine: https://msft.it/6010v7Jup

Didn't expect today to be Opus 5 launch day! Opus 5 beats Fable 5 on almost every benchmark. It seems to have a major leap in coding and agent capabilities, with significantly improved token efficiency. And it costs only half as much as Fable 5. Can't wait to try it.

Anthropic launches Opus 5

Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant

Anthropic releases Opus 5 with 'close' to Fable 5's capabilities

Replit has a lot of shipments this month. Talk to Agent with voice, build from Claude or Slack, and never have to re-explain your tech stack to Agent again. Full overview:

Introducing Claude Opus 5. It's a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier i…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang posted his first message on X, simultaneously releasing an open letter titled "Open Weights and American AI Leadership" with Microsoft's Nadella, uniting 25 organizations including Meta, Hugging Face, Mistral, a16z, and YC to form the Open Weights Alliance. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are notably absent, marking the formal public opposition between the open weights and closed-source frontier model camps in the AI industry.

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Huang Renxun opened a Twitter account and posted his first tweet, publicly supporting open-source models and the open-source ecosystem, becoming the first industry top CEO to take a clear stance in the recent US debate on whether to ban China's leading open-source models. He argued that the US should not equate AI leadership with protecting the leading position of a few giant companies, otherwise it might lose the entire AI war; the real advantage should come from open models, computing infrastructure, and ecosystem applications. He called for providing more computing power to startups, building shared datasets and evaluation systems, and opposed prematurely restricting open-source models due to potential risks.

Companies including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Nvidia have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose 'premature restrictions' on open-weight AI models. The letter states that knowledge distillation is a widely used legitimate technique and should not be conflated with intellectual property theft, and should be addressed through targeted legal frameworks rather than blanket restrictions. The letter comes as the Trump administration considers banning Chinese open-weight models.

Huang Renxun posted his first message on X, co-signing an open letter from 25 companies emphasizing that open models are crucial for U.S. AI leadership, which was instantly reposted by Musk. He precisely positioned himself at the forefront of U.S. policy discussions, packaging Nvidia's commercial interests as politically correct: only the proliferation of open models can sustain GPU demand, rather than closed models concentrated among a few large companies. This move aims to transform Nvidia from a 'card seller' into a definer of AI rules.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang posted his first tweet on X, joining Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and other companies to call for support of open-source AI. The alliance argues that open models allow businesses and governments to inspect, modify, and run AI, thereby reducing reliance on a few vendors and enhancing data control. The post emphasizes that frontier closed-source and open-source models should coexist, and open source must remain legal.

Microsoft released Fara1.5-27B, a 27B-parameter multimodal agent based on the Qwen3.5 architecture that can see images, read text, and control computers like a human. Designed specifically for computer-use scenarios, it can browse the web, fill forms, extract data from screenshots, and click buttons, enabling web automation. The model is open-source and moderately sized, suitable for local deployment and self-hosting, lowering the barrier for reliable computer-use models.

The open weights models discussion would be much less fraught if all the frontier closed models were…

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Nvidia CEO Huang Renxun posted his first tweet on X, publicly calling for support of open-source AI models. The open letter he signed states that open-source models can accelerate innovation, enhance security, promote competition, and reduce costs. Musk responded, "Full support, Huang Renxun is right," emphasizing that the world needs both cutting-edge closed-source and open-source models to coexist.

As a joke, I prompted Codex "Build and run BenchBench, a benchmark that measures AI's ability to create benchmarks. Then figure out what benchbenchbench is and run it. Then write benchbenchbench into a decent arXiv paper." I got a PDF. But the paper is actually kind of interesting?

Anthropic, in collaboration with Andon Labs, has launched Drone-Bench, a benchmark for testing AI models' ability to autonomously control quadrotor drones to locate and track designated individuals in indoor environments. The benchmark decomposes the task into five sub-tasks: 3D map reconstruction, localization, navigation, target detection, and following, enabling rapid evaluation through software simulation. Experiments show that the difficulty of this task chain is sufficient to distinguish models of different intelligence levels and reveals the trajectory of AI progress in physical world manipulation capabilities.

Three.js has its application scope further amplified by AI~ Let's get farm games going~

Google has released gmn, a parametric, fully differentiable 3D head model that allows fine-grained control and real-time adjustment of all facial actions and expressions. The model runs on CPU without requiring a GPU, and an interactive demo is available on Hugging Face. Its differentiability enables seamless integration into neural network training, simplifying tasks such as expression transfer and inverse rendering.

Handoff has released H1, an AI model specifically designed for residential building blueprints, capable of autonomously analyzing complete drawings from raw PDFs and generating full trade material lists. In its industry benchmark test, H1 scored 85.2%, outperforming eight major AI models by over 30 percentage points, performing on par with or better than senior estimators.

There's something missing from the open vs. closed models debate that has been bothering me. The be…

Google has signed the EU's AI-Generated Content Transparency Code of Conduct, committing to add machine-readable identifiers and watermarks to AI content, and to clearly inform users of human-AI interaction. Google will continue to promote SynthID watermarking technology and collaborate with Apple, OpenAI, and others to drive industry adoption of interoperable tools.

shipping a site is only half the job. sites analytics is now in public testing for sites published …

Bluesky's AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool

This has my full support. Jensen is right.

Midjourney is acquiring Co-Star. CEO @banu__guler is now Chief Design Officer at Midjourney. She's b…

Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star

Introducing Classifiers, now in Beta. Tag inferences in your workspace by task type, department, agent complexity, or anything else you care about. Then filter logs or visualize your activity. Here's the distribution of our internal models across different task types 👇

Just a tiny meow-squito causing trouble.

OpenAI pushes ChatGPT into patient health records

The tech-broification of American science has officially begun

Old Huang opened an X account, first tweet supports open-source models, big vision, big money

Sakana claims its AI model router Fugu Ultra v1.1 now beats Fable 5 without even including it in the pool

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang opened a Twitter account and posted his first message, supporting open-source models and ecosystems, becoming the first top industry CEO to take a clear stance in the recent U.S. debate on whether to ban China's leading open-source models. He argued that U.S. AI leadership should not be limited to protecting a few giants but should build overall advantages through open models, computing infrastructure, and ecosystem applications. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella subsequently issued a similar call, jointly pressuring the U.S. government.

Huang Renxun posted his first tweet on X platform, sharing an open letter signed by NVIDIA that emphasizes the strategic value of open-source models for the AI ecosystem. The letter points out that open-source models can enhance security and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and achieve sovereignty. The world needs both cutting-edge closed-source models and cutting-edge open-source models. As a monopolist in AI computing infrastructure, NVIDIA's public support for open-source marks a shift from idealism to a strategic choice for industrial diffusion and national competitiveness.

This feels more like a us-China geopolitics story than a technical AI story at this point

Huang Renxun posted on X for the first time, publicly supporting open-weight models. He believes that open-weight models allow anyone to download, modify, and run them, avoiding the "single point of failure" risk of closed models, reducing deployment costs for startups and academic institutions, and breaking the monopoly of tech giants. He calls on policymakers to expand computing resources, invest in public datasets, and avoid premature restrictions to foster the development of application layers.

Old Huang is also on Twitter now. This might be the only time we have more followers than him, haha @JensenHuang Don't follow the wrong account~

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Tech leaders including Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella publicly support open-source AI. Nadella noted that open-weight models are crucial for a healthy AI ecosystem and is working with the industry to chart a path that enhances US competitiveness, expands economic opportunities, and protects national security. These influential voices suggest US authorities may find it difficult to continue enforcing the ban on Chinese open-source models.

Hyper3D's BANG to Parts feature can automatically decompose a complete 3D model into multiple independent, complete 3D parts. The decomposed parts can be directly used for animation, material modification, or 3D printing, and support recursive decomposition (e.g., car → wheel → hub), with each part individually editable or regenerable.

Huang Laolai X is a bit late, registered in June, posted the first message today. Account is @JensenHuang

Huang Renxun opened a Twitter account and published his first tweet, publicly supporting open-source models and the open-source ecosystem. He argued that the US should not interpret AI leadership as protecting the leading positions of a few top companies, otherwise it might lose the AI war; the real advantage should come from open models, computing infrastructure, and widespread deployment. He also called for providing more computing power to startups and research institutions, building shared datasets and evaluation systems, and avoiding premature restrictions on open-source models.

Nathan Lambert, in collaboration with Interconnects AI, urges policymakers not to conflate legitimate model distillation with illegal IP theft. Distillation is a widely used technique for model improvement, reflecting the tradition of innovation since the open-source software movement. Concerns about illegally extracting value from closed models should be addressed through targeted legal frameworks, not blanket restrictions on distillation.

European cloud provider Hetzner is developing an LLM inference service called Sliplane. The service aims to provide users with model inference capabilities based on Hetzner's infrastructure. Specific launch dates, supported model lists, or pricing information have not yet been announced.

User @SenZh4 built a personal website using Vibe Coding, transforming themselves into a 3D avatar with AI, and created a platform that enables beginners to quickly generate similar content. This case showcases creative applications of AI in web design and interactive resumes.

MSI has launched the 4L compact desktop PRO MAX EDGE AI+ based on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 300 processor, supporting up to 128GB of 8000MT/s LPDDR5X memory. This single unit can run a 120B model locally, achieving 15 Token/s inference throughput on a 109B model; multiple units interconnected via USB4 can handle a 670B model.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang posted his first tweet on X, attaching an open letter signed by NVIDIA emphasizing the importance of open models for AI development. The letter states that open models enhance safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and support sovereign needs, and that the world needs both cutting-edge closed-source and open-source models.

Damn, old Huang actually joined X, welcome Jason!!!

Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, Meta and 25 other U.S. technology companies jointly signed an open letter urging the U.S. government to support open-weight AI models. The letter states that open-weight models can lower the barrier to advanced AI, foster market competition, and give users technological autonomy. It also emphasizes that openness is more conducive to AI safety than closure, as an open ecosystem can mobilize researchers to identify vulnerabilities. The letter further calls on policymakers to ensure the supply of computing power and public R&D resources, distinguish between legitimate model distillation techniques and illegal theft, and avoid excessive regulation that stifles innovation.

BREAKING: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has officially joined X You can follow him here: @jensenhuang

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang posted his first tweet, sharing an open letter signed by NVIDIA that explains the importance of open source models. The letter points out that AI will transform every industry, empower every company, and be built by every country. Open source models can strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and support sovereignty. Huang emphasized that the world needs both frontier closed-source models and frontier open-source models.

This episode of Equity delves into the reasons behind Kimi K3's shock to Wall Street, as well as the 'jailbroken model' leak incident on Hugging Face involving OpenAI. The show also discusses the future of electric vehicles and battery startups, and touches on the concept of 'AI communism'.

Ant Group has released the new generation native hybrid reasoning model Ling-3.0-flash, with a total parameter count of 124B and only 5.1B activated parameters. Its capabilities are comparable to or even surpass the previous generation 1T-level flagship Ring-2.6-1T. The model adopts a native hybrid linear attention architecture, reducing TTFT by 60% to 80%+ under long inputs. From now until August 3, the model is available for free API calls on OpenRouter and the Bailing official platform. After the free period ends, it will be officially open-sourced.

The Trump administration is considering rule changes that would allow polluting facilities, including gas-fired power plants and diesel generators powering data centers, to be built with almost no public notice. The EPA is holding a hearing on a proposal that would delegate to states the authority to decide how the public participates in permitting new pollution sources. This move comes as communities across the U.S. are using the permitting process to resist data center development.

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung departed for the US today and will meet with leaders from AI and chip industries including Nvidia, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are expected to unveil major cooperation agreements of 'extremely large' scale with US tech companies, covering new long-term memory chip supply agreements, strategic investments, and memorandums of understanding. Previously, South Korean authorities announced an investment plan of at least $880 billion to expand chip production capacity and solidify its semiconductor leadership.

HCLTech announced a partnership with the Odisha government and AI startup Sarvam to build an AI data center in Bhubaneswar with a total investment of INR 142.57 billion. The project will combine HCLTech's full-stack AI capabilities with Sarvam's foundational models to provide industry-specific AI applications. HCLTech will also build a global technology center in the area capable of housing 5,000 employees, expected to be operational by 2028.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang posted his first X tweet, co-signing an open letter with Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, Hugging Face, and others, emphasizing the critical value of open-source models to the AI ecosystem. The open letter states that open models allow enterprises and nations to independently review, modify, and run AI, reducing reliance on a few suppliers and enhancing data control, technological sovereignty, and cybersecurity. The letter also clarifies that both frontier closed models and frontier open models are indispensable.

Ant Bailing releases a new generation native hybrid reasoning model Ling-3.0-flash, with a total of 124B parameters and only 5.1B activated parameters. It matches or even surpasses the previous flagship Ring-2.6-1T in traditional reasoning, instruction following, and long text benchmarks. The model adopts a native hybrid linear attention architecture and 1/64 sparse MoE, and extends to 10,000+ interactive training environments, reducing TTFT by 60% to over 80% for long inputs.

Introducing workflows in Runway Agent. Now you can build, run, or edit node-based workflows using natural language. Workflows unlock high-quality outputs at scale. Try it now by clicking the link below to invoke the / Workflow skill.

OpenAI's new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app

In 2021, about 90% of China's AI chips came from abroad; by 2025, that proportion will drop to below 60%, and Morgan Stanley expects it to fall to 25% by 2030. By combining old equipment with advanced packaging technology, Huawei's Ascend chips have been able to replace Nvidia hardware in some AI tasks. Although Nvidia's strongest chip is still about four times more powerful than Huawei's, and China still relies on imported equipment, complete chip self-sufficiency is no longer out of reach.

A new Xiaomi phone model 2608BPX34C has passed network access filing, registering over ten large models including Xiaomi's own large model, Zhipu AI, Wenxin Yiyan, DeepSeek, Tongyi Qianwen, and Hunyuan. It is expected to run the HyperOS 4 system. The phone is likely to support switching between multiple large models, but the specific model name and release date have not been announced yet.

Open-weight models are essential to a healthy AI ecosystem. Together with others across our industry…

Breaking: OpenAI President Greg Brockman has endorsed Elon Musk's proposal for leading AI companies to meet every few weeks to discuss safety and security risks. Elon Musk also proposed peer review before releasing frontier AI models.

In my first post, I shared a letter signed by @NVIDIA explaining why open models matter. AI will transform every industry, empower every company, and be built by every country. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models. https://images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Weights-and-American-AI-Leadership.pdf

Codex billboard update! UGC version is now live in San Francisco I heard they appear on some mini-sites. Can you find them?

OpenBMB, in collaboration with Tsinghua NLP, proposes that carefully designed data recipes combined with minimal GRPO can significantly improve long-context reasoning without special reward engineering. The method decomposes reasoning into three capabilities: retrieval, multi-evidence synthesis, and reasoning, constructing 8 datasets (about 14,000 samples) for training. On Qwen3-4B/8B/30B-A3B, seven long-context benchmarks show average improvements of +7.2/+3.2/+6.4, with effects generalizing to 512K+ tokens.

Unitree Technology released the wheel-legged robot As2-W, adding four active wheels to the As2 from early this year, combining wheeled speed with quadrupedal obstacle-crossing capability. The robot can sprint at 6m/s, has IP54 waterproof rating, a no-load range over 30km, weighs about 25kg, can carry up to 180kg, and is equipped with a pre-trained RL model 6.0.

Berry Xia points out that when ordinary people write Skills, as long as they choose the right model for the corresponding tool, most of them don't need to configure additional APIs at all. They can directly call the built-in API of the tool, which eliminates a lot of tedious operations and greatly lowers the barrier to entry. Many people are discouraged by API configuration when they first start.

Baidu Dazi introduced multiple upgrades at the recent AI Day, supporting interconnection between PC and phone, synchronizing task context and execution progress, allowing users to hand off and complete complex work across devices. The desktop embedded browser is officially launched, capable of automatically opening multiple web pages to perform research, downloads, and other operations, while the phone side supports remote cloud control. The intelligent router automatically matches task modes, reducing average task time by 20% and improving token utilization by 25%; simple task completion rate reaches 100%, complex task high delivery rate is 94%, and point consumption is reduced by up to 75%.

Baidu Vice President Shi Qinghua proposed at the APEC Digital Intelligence Empowerment High-Level Dialogue that AI development should adhere to "upward, deep, benevolent" and introduced "Daily Active Agents" (DAA) as a new metric to measure AI productivity. Baidu's self-developed platform "Miaoda" has been implemented in over 200 business scenarios, creating over 3.5 million commercially usable applications, serving over 35 million people cumulatively.

Neuralink 🧠 How it started vs. How it's going

Tell codex to just take a look.

The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) and the Beijing Key Laboratory of On-Device Intelligence jointly released a report, pointing out that 2026 is a critical turning point for the large-scale deployment of on-device intelligence. The report proposes a "Density Law," stating that the maximum capability density of models roughly doubles every 3.5 months. MiniCPM5-1B, with 1 billion parameters, achieved a score of 17.9 on Artificial Analysis, only a few tenths of a point behind the 200-billion-parameter GPT-4o released in May 2024.

Black Forest Labs released the multimodal foundation model FLUX 3, jointly training images, video, and audio, with video prediction accounting for over 95% of training compute. In collaboration with robotics company mimic, they launched FLUX-mimic, which has been tested and deployed on Audi's production lines. After adding action prediction, video generation quality initially dropped by up to 10%, but recovered to original levels after 3,500 steps of training.

Anthropic has released a "Claude Recipes" collection containing multiple tutorials covering scenarios from reproducing Claude agent search benchmark scores to building asynchronous multi-agent teams and deploying production-grade agents. The tutorials also cover practical content such as Memory storage, Outcomes self-verification loops, and migration from the OpenAI Agents SDK.

The international standard project "Requirements and Reference Framework for Multimedia Data Fabric System" (ITU-T F.DF-RefFram), led by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, was officially initiated at the ITU-T SG21 meeting. The standard is intended to specify the overall positioning, functional requirements, and reference framework of multimedia data fabric systems, focusing on common technical issues such as distributed data discovery, semantic management, and service orchestration. It aims to reduce the integration complexity of multi-source heterogeneous data and provide standardized support for high-quality data supply in artificial intelligence.

New Meta paper argues that factuality means both avoiding errors and including enough of the right i…

Despite the continuous advancement of AI models and high promises of programming efficiency, the actual software experience is deteriorating across the board: banking apps require multiple FaceID verifications, Slack windows steal focus causing accidental command sends, and car system updates introduce frequent bugs. The author argues that even with the latest models and ample token budgets, teams fail to improve stability because vendors have long been KPI-driven, where fixing bugs is less "impressive" than new features. However, this collective "AI debt" is creating opportunities for independent developers to build better everyday software using tools previously out of reach.

The US is preparing to use AI distillation as a new weapon against China. According to Axios: The White House says Moonshot AI crossed the line by secretly mass-copying Anthropic's Fable model to build Kimi K3. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Chinese companies accused of doing so could face sanctions or be placed on the entity list. In my view, this reads as distillation accusations now becoming a legal basis for being able and willing to ban Chinese open-source software.

Claude's voice mode now runs on Anthropic's most capable models across all platforms

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The author finds it increasingly difficult to concentrate for more than an hour, even on long-awaited tasks. Distractions include browsing irrelevant links, checking phones while waiting, and even making the bed. The use of LLMs exacerbates the problem—after outsourcing tasks to AI, the author still constantly thinks about their progress, making it impossible to truly focus on other work. The author believes this fragmentation of attention partly stems from workplace chat tools and ineffective meetings eroding focus, as well as passive content consumption gradually replacing active thinking activities.

Deng Yu, the 2026 Fields Medalist and professor at the University of Chicago, revealed that he uses AI-assisted tools in his mathematical research. GPT once helped solve a mathematical special case that had stumped him for several days. Deng stated that AI has made many research steps much more convenient, able to supplement unknown knowledge or provide simple proofs. However, the proof for that special case could not be generalized to the general situation and was not included in the final paper. He emphasized that AI cannot replace independent judgment and rigorous verification, especially for students just starting their research careers.

Shengshu Technology showcased a general world model that spans from digital world generation to physical world action at WAIC 2026. Its video generation model Vidu has formed a product matrix, and the real-time interactive model Vidu S1 supports video call-level output at 540P and up to 42FPS. The world action model Motubrain for the physical world ranked first in both Clean and Randomized scenarios of the RoboTwin 2.0 leaderboard.

The paper shows that agents reason better over long periods when no past information is thrown away….

After Oracle laid off 21,000 people, its nearly 1 GW data center project in Wisconsin for OpenAI encountered regulatory hurdles. State regulators require Oracle to provide guarantees for over $7 billion in power infrastructure for the project, but Oracle's credit rating has dropped to BBB-, below the required level. If using a letter of credit as guarantee, the annual cost would exceed $100 million.

Zhiyuan has initiated the process for its Hong Kong IPO. According to Omdia, in 2025, Zhiyuan shipped over 5,100 general-purpose humanoid robots, ranking first globally with approximately 39% market share. In June this year, its 15,000th general-purpose embodied robot, the Elf G2, rolled off the production line.

OneCLI is an open-source credential gateway specifically designed to prevent AI agents from accidentally leaking sensitive information such as API keys and database passwords during operations. It intercepts and filters sensitive credentials in CLI commands, ensuring that only authorized secure calls can access these secrets. The project is open-sourced on GitHub, aiming to provide an additional security layer for development teams using AI agents.

Token efficiency is extremely important for sustainable use. Thanks so much for the launch day colla…

Thanks to the @sgl_project community for the continued high-level support! Keep it up~ 😇

Amazon today announced the upgrade of its Alexa+ AI assistant, which now supports natural conversations, information memory, and task execution, enabling users to complete everyday tasks such as shopping, restaurant reservations, and ride-hailing. Alexa+ features multimodal capabilities and enhanced memory, integrating third-party services like Uber, OpenTable, and Grubhub, allowing users to directly call a ride, book a table, or order food via voice. Alexa+ can also sync conversation context across Echo speakers, mobile apps, in-car devices, and web browsers, and provides personalized news summaries.

Xiaohongshu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Beijing Institute of Technology jointly propose UniNote, which integrates multimodal representation learning and ranking capabilities into a single model. Through two-stage training (contrastive SFT for representation enhancement + reinforcement learning for ranking optimization), UniNote achieves performance comparable to the two-stage retrieval-ranking paradigm in a single embedding pass, significantly reducing latency.

From July 14 to 16, Alibaba Cloud and Bosch Digital held AINNOVATION DAY in Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Suzhou, with over 120 participants jointly promoting enterprise cloud and AI co-creation. Guided by experts including Dr. Xia Yuhu, Regional President of Bosch Digital, teams transformed ideas into solutions within hours, producing over 40 projects covering industrial IoT, energy transition, and smart home scenarios such as AI refrigerators.

Google has launched Gemini Spark Agent for Gemini Pro users in the US! More countries coming soon 👀 My attempt from two months ago is still there! Have you tried it?

A joint evaluation by the UK AI Safety Institute and the US AI Standards and Innovation Center shows that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 scored 32.2% on the ExploitBench benchmark, far below the US leading model's 76.2%, but better than Zhipu's GLM-5.2 at 24.4%.

ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott stated that the platform has a kill switch to prevent out-of-control AI agents, avoiding situations like OpenAI models escaping and attacking Hugging Face. The control system provides customers with a centralized platform to monitor and manage AI agents, helping them "move from AI chaos to AI discipline." McDermott believes that the proliferation of AI is strengthening ServiceNow's competitive position and driving longer contract terms.

It's a great honor to partner with the tasteful Vercel Gateway! 🥰 Thanks to @vercel_dev and @novita_labs for the Day0 release~

Claude-thermos monitors Claude Code sessions via a local reverse proxy. When the main agent is idle for more than 5 minutes while waiting for sub-agents, it automatically sends a warm-up request to refresh the prompt cache. In real-world tests with about 185 local sessions, re-encoding due to cache expiration accounted for approximately 22% of the bill. The tool runs via uvx and supports custom idle thresholds and warm-up intervals.

Huawei Cloud hosted the Huawei Cloud Thailand Summit 2026, bringing together government, enterprises, industry partners, and tech community leaders to discuss how cloud and AI can support Thailand's digital economy. During the event, #HuaweiCloud announced "Huawei Cloud Agent Infrastructure: Now Available in Thailand" and officially launched the Huawei Cloud CodeArts Agent Open Beta Test (OBT) in Thailand. Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/2dmvzdex

We look forward to hearing feedback from Ling users! Thanks to @OpenRouter and @novita_labs for the perfect support! 🤠

Small teams don't need an AI tool for every job title. They need one plan that covers all of them. …

A lovely video it is 🥳 Now let's build something fun with Ling-3.0-flash on Hermes and keep all the…

When I saw this video, I started to get a little scared. Especially when you imagine the scenarios where it could be used.

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Huang Jian, General Manager of Huawei's China Government and Enterprise Internet Industry, pointed out that data transport capacity has become the biggest bottleneck for AI computing power. Instead of obsessing over single-chip process, efficiency should be improved through the integration of network, computing, and storage. In the past six months, token consumption has increased by 6 times, and the number of model calls has increased by about 50 to 100 times. Huawei has increased NPO bandwidth by more than eight times and token generation efficiency by five times.

JD's digital human technology supports 23 brand IPs including Lenovo Legion, Mengniu, Hisense, Wuliangye, and Three Squirrels to enter livestreams, integrating event highlights and promotional activities to achieve conversion from content exposure to business operations. The series of livestreams, themed 'Everything Can Be Livestreamed,' transforms brand IPs from static assets into interactive, convertible content assets, opening new AI marketing scenarios for brand merchants.

Terence Tao on AI in Math. AI can synthesize a million papers and brute-test ideas. Humans can chec…

The Lijian-1 Y15 rocket launched today in a 'one rocket, five satellites' manner, including Jitianxing A-04, which carries an embodied AI model capable of autonomously monitoring satellite health and planning tasks, supporting real-time uploading of large AI models. Xiguang-2 03 carries three AI weather models that directly produce forecasts onboard, reducing the response time from observation to warning to minutes. Both satellites belong to the SanTi Computing Constellation, which plans to reach 100 satellites by 2027.

Dr. Li Feifei, CTO and President of Alibaba Cloud International, shared at WAIC 2026 the future direction of AI: a major shift toward Agent-as-a-Service, which will transform how AI generates impact. 🔗: https://int.alibabacloud.com/m/1000405058/ Watch the full video to learn more!

Oracle has laid off 21,000 employees due to a failed AI strategy bet. The massive layoffs reflect the company's investments in AI failing to deliver expected returns, leading to a large-scale business restructuring.

AI tools multiply fast. Bills multiply faster. The Alibaba Cloud Token Plan replaces that sprawl wi…

AI tools multiply fast. Bills multiply faster. The Alibaba Cloud Token Plan replaces that sprawl wi…

Blogger @dotey pointed out that DeepSeek still does not support multimodal features, which is hard to understand. Although its founder Liang Wenfeng previously looked down on Coding Agent (now changed his view), the lack of multimodal remains a clear weakness.

Tencent internally announced the merger of its Large Language Model Department and Multimodal Department into a Foundation Model Department, led by Chief AI Scientist Yao Shunyu. Yao Shunyu arrived last December and centralized power within 7 months, from dismantling and merging AI Lab into Hunyuan to integrating multimodal capabilities. The previously released Hy3 model (295B total parameters / 21B activated parameters) has matched flagship models with 2-5 times the parameters, improving internal WorkBuddy task success rate from 72% to 90% while reducing time consumption by 34%.

SK Hynix is recruiting technical talent in the field of DRAM-logic 3D stacking through its US subsidiary in San Jose, aiming to lead the co-design of 3D stacked DRAM logic chips in collaboration with US customers. This technology vertically stacks DRAM dies with logic dies to establish more short-distance I/O connections, thereby increasing bandwidth, reducing latency, and improving energy efficiency to meet the inference demands of large on-device AI models.

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Users can now view native Analytics for published Sites on Codex. All basic performance metrics are …

A new study compares raw navigation, flat skills, and deep skill hierarchies in long-context agents. In a single-book scenario, strong agents' own search capabilities suffice, with flat skills offering almost no accuracy improvement. However, in a large knowledge base of 20 books, flat skills boost English open-question accuracy from 0.257 to 0.462. The research shows that skill indexing does not make models smarter but helps save context when the corpus is too large, and single-layer routing is more effective than deep hierarchies for large-scale document bases.

Haha ~ Doubao has invaded Feishu. Yesterday I saw Sister Doubao directly appear in our Feishu. Our dear colleagues can't live without Doubao at work and in life. I wonder how the quota is calculated~

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ListenHub and Labnana have launched the latest image model Seedream 5.0 Pro, which surpasses GPT Image 2 in aesthetic performance for scenes like anime characters. The platform also simultaneously introduced image editing features, supporting targeted modifications to specific parts of an image.

Codex Live feature is now available, enabling real-time voice control of the computer and "seeing" the screen interface, supporting conversation while watching YouTube videos. Users simply need to upgrade Codex to the latest version, or enable Voice Chat and turn on Screen context in settings.

Israel's National AI Director Erez Askal is lobbying TSMC, Samsung Foundry, and Intel Foundry, hoping one of them will build a wafer fab for 2nm or more advanced logic chips in the country. He plans to establish a data center cluster with 100,000 GPUs in Israel within the next five years. Currently, Intel operates the Intel 7 wafer fab Fab 28 in Israel, but the planned new Fab 38 construction was frozen in 2024 due to poor financial performance.

Unitree founder and CEO Wang Xingxing appeared on the cover of Time magazine alongside the company's manned mech product GD01. The GD01 is the world's first mass-produced manned mech, standing nearly 2.7 meters tall and weighing about half a ton, capable of bipedal and quadrupedal walking, with a cockpit for user control. Morgan Stanley predicts that the global number of humanoid robots could reach 13 million by 2035 and potentially grow to 1 billion by 2050.

From serving humans to serving AI agents. At WAIC 2026, ApsaraDB (including PolarDB, AnalyticDB, Lindorm, etc.) unveiled its vision for evolving into an Agentic database—building a next-generation data platform for the agent era based on LakeBase, multimodal memory, and full-stack observability, driving AI applications at scale. 👍 #WAIC #ApsaraDB #PolarDB #AlibabaCloud

In a recorded investor meeting, Liang Wenfeng outlined clear steps toward AGI: last year was Chain-of-Thought reasoning, this year is Agent, the next hard hurdle is continual learning, followed by the singularity (model self-iteration), and finally embodied intelligence. He views video generation and world models as side quests—getting the order wrong means more effort leads to more mistakes. Thus, DeepSeek does not chase trends but advances according to its own mainline rhythm.

Autonomous driving company Momenta has entered the unmanned freight (Robovan) sector, and its Robovan has been operating in Suzhou for months. Momenta was listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on July 8, and the scale of mass-produced vehicles equipped with its system has exceeded 1 million units, with cumulative designated vehicle models exceeding 210.

Runway has launched Media Router, which automatically switches models based on three priorities—quality, speed, and cost—when generating images, videos, and audio, reducing the burden of manual model switching for developers. The tool is now available on the Runway Dev platform, supporting calls to multiple models including Seedance, GPT Image 2, and ElevenLabs, with flexible scheduling across three scenarios: high-speed generation, high quality, and low cost.

The annual defense bill (NDAA) passed by the US House of Representatives prohibits the Pentagon from purchasing or using humanoid robots from "foreign adversaries" including China, Russia, and Iran. The measure currently applies only to military procurement and does not include broader proposals to ban Chinese-made humanoid robots from the US commercial market. Lawmakers advocate for restrictions citing national security and data privacy concerns.

Beautiful paper on agent harness Agent harnesses fail to evolve cleanly because developers often k…

Alibaba Cloud has open-sourced the document parsing model OvisOCR2, which achieved a comprehensive score of 96.58 on OmniDocBench v1.6, topping the leaderboard and becoming the first end-to-end model to surpass pipeline methods. The model is obtained through post-training on Qwen3.5-0.8B, adopts an end-to-end technical route, and can directly output document images in Markdown format. The project is open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license and is compatible with mainstream inference frameworks such as vLLM.

Black Forest Labs has launched FLUX 3, a multimodal foundation model in Early Access, using a unified architecture to jointly learn images, videos, and audio. The model is built on the Self-Flow learning framework and can output up to 20-second videos with native audio in a single generation, supporting tasks such as text-to-video, image-to-video, and multi-shot concatenation.

Should we rename ChatGPT Work to ChatGPT Vibe?

Although we were all expecting Opus 5 yesterday, it seems that all requests for version 4.8 are still being routed to the new version 5. So the release should still be imminent. Polymarket still gives a 22% probability of release today ;)

XPeng's humanoid robot has officially started small-batch trial production at its Guangzhou factory, with the mass production line entering the final commissioning phase. XPeng plans to achieve mass production of humanoid robots by 2026, and expects them to gradually enter XPeng stores and commercial scenarios globally from 2027, taking on roles such as guide and explainer. The robot business integrates the group's hardware, AI large models, supply chain, and marketing capabilities, while leveraging the software-hardware collaborative R&D and intelligent manufacturing experience from its automotive business.

Does Codex CLI support GPT live voice? If so, would it be more playable?

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model scored 1543 points on the AA-Briefcase benchmark, surpassing GPT-5.6 Sol (1501 points) and second only to Claude Fable 5 (1574 points). The model has 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1 million token context window. Input costs are 2 yuan per million tokens with cache hit and 20 yuan without, while output costs 100 yuan.

Tencent announced the merger of its Hunyuan multimodal model department and large language model department to form the Foundation Model Department, uniformly managed by Chief AI Scientist Yao Shunyu. The Hy3 large language model launched in July achieves intelligence levels comparable to flagship models with 2-5 times its parameter scale, and within a week of release, its total call volume increased over 68 times compared to the previous generation Hy2. The Hunyuan 3D World Model 2.0 (Hy World 2.0) has been open-sourced, supporting text, image, and video inputs to generate 3D worlds, with community downloads exceeding 3 million.

Ling-3.0-flash is now free to call on OpenCode~

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According to WSJ, Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter for about $10 billion. OpenRouter just completed a $113 million funding round days ago at a $1.3 billion valuation. Stripe already processes payments for it; the acquisition would combine billing with AI distribution, gaining usage data and pricing influence across model providers.

Black Forest Labs has launched FLUX 3, a multimodal model for image, video, audio, and action prediction. > Jointly trained in a unified architecture, our model is scalable for predicting robot actions. > FLUX 3 Video is now available for early access (application via form required).

XPeng CEO He Xiaopeng expects the Guangzhou Robotaxi business to achieve per-vehicle breakeven as early as the second half of 2027, depending on vehicle density in specific operating areas rather than total fleet size. XPeng plans to launch a model more suitable for Robotaxi next year and will act as a full-stack software and hardware solution provider, exporting technology, AI, and vehicles to partners in various regions, rather than operating its own fleet. Currently, XPeng is in talks with dozens of potential partners, over half of which are overseas, and expects most of its future Robotaxi business to be outside China.

Tesla's AI5 generation chip adopts a dual-source supply strategy. The TSMC version is based on the 3nm node, with design partner GUC, and its tape-out progress is one quarter ahead of the Samsung foundry version. The Samsung foundry version of AI5 is based on the 2nm GAA process and has completed tape-out, but manufacturing costs are higher. Due to different transistor architectures (FinFET vs GAA), there are significant differences in the physical implementation of the chip design between the two versions.

Google has added a "selfie video" login method for Google accounts, allowing users to set or verify their identity by recording a facial video and performing simple head movements. This feature is primarily used for account recovery when locked out or unable to use a regular device. The video is encrypted and stored, and users can delete it at any time. Google employs multiple security mechanisms (including liveness detection and deepfake defense) to prevent impersonation.

Claude Code v2.1.181 released on June 17 has integrated Bun rewritten in Rust, achieving 10% faster startup on Linux. Bun is a runtime for executing JavaScript and TypeScript. Previously, developers spent 11 days and $165,000 rewriting it from Zig to Rust.

The newly launched Higgsfield Supercomputer enables Claude to work directly inside Adobe After Effec…

At the Advancing AI 2026 event, AMD announced a partnership with Cerebras to jointly develop a solution for ultra-low latency AI inference. The solution integrates AMD's Helios rack with Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine, handling the prompt and token generation stages respectively, and is expected to increase tokens per second per watt by 5 times.

DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng judged at an investor meeting that Nvidia's CUDA moat is rapidly disintegrating. AI code writing combined with the self-developed high-level language TileLang can replicate the operator ecosystem that CUDA has accumulated over a decade in just a few months. Huawei's 950 supernode can already fully replace GB300 in all tasks. He stated that within a year, the perception that "domestic cards are not good to use" will be reversed, with the only bottleneck being production capacity, not technology.

Netizen u/SnooPeripherals2206 posted on Reddit that after their home fiber optic line was bitten by a dog, they contacted AT&T customer service, but its AI assistant Andi failed to effectively register the repair request or transfer to a human agent during a conversation lasting over 1 hour. The netizen described the entire process as a "death loop," with the AI only responding with canned replies and not substantially advancing the issue resolution.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang responded in an Axios interview to the question "Should open-source models be allowed to distill closed-source models?" by stating that distillation (learning from other AI) is the foundation of intelligence. He noted that in the coming years, 99% of internet content may be generated by AI, and AI systems will continuously distill knowledge and intelligence from other AIs. He believes it is good for AI to be able to learn, and smarter AI is also safer.

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The office is really becoming a 24/7 AI bench. Every new product launch from Genspark feels incredi…

How to Build an End-to-End OCR Pipeline with Baidu's Unlimited-OCR for High-Resolution Images and Multi-Page PDF Parsing

I used to feel guilty playing games for too long, thinking I was wasting time. Now I play games while waiting for an Agent to work, and I feel oddly at ease. Maybe I've gone from chopping wood to herding sheep?

happens! life imitates art… [Quote @guinnesschen]: ChatGPT Voice is now fully rolled out. Apologies for the delay. We joked in the launch video about a "completely misconfigured feature toggle." Turns out a completely misconfigured feature toggle actually delayed the launch. We accidentally made a documentary.

Ethan Mollick believes that GPT-5.6 Pro, only available through the chatbot, is the smartest model at present, while GPT-5.6 Ultra in Codex performs weaker on difficult tasks.

Ling-3.0-flash is now free on OpenCode inclusionAI's latest model optimized for token efficiency

Andrew Ng open-sourced OpenWorker, a local-first, model-agnostic desktop AI agent that directly delivers finished products like HTML reports, Slack messages, or scheduled tasks, rather than just chatting. It supports GPT, Claude, Gemini, Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek, and local Ollama, with data staying on-device. Risk is controlled via four permission levels (read/write_local/exec/external), requiring user approval before any consequential action.

Glad to see Google sharing data on how Gemini is being used. Especially interesting is that the usef…

Grok 4.5 takes the #1 spot on VulcanBench v3 with a 91.3% score. 🔥

Grok Build, with its built-in X (Twitter) API support, can search X platform information in real-time and comprehensively, and it has strong coding and development capabilities. This tool is especially recommended for blue V users and those focused on growth, with its core advantages summarized as "more, faster, better, and more economical."

SenseTime and OXO AIDC have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly deve…

LandingAI has integrated Agentic Document Extraction (ADE) Skills into Claude Code, allowing Coding Agents to parse documents directly within the IDE with just two installation commands.

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Why does Codex Voice open a new thread? A useful mental model: voice is the orchestrator, not the executor. Try: "Find my xyz thread, have it..." Voice can send tasks to that thread and listen for feedback. Separate contexts, and a powerful two-way conversation between you and the orchestrator, and between the orchestrator and a set of tasks.