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China's AI week. Kimi K3 hit #3 on an independent index then paused new signups as GPUs maxed out, Alibaba claimed second place behind Fable 5 without benchmarks, and Washington threatened sanctions — our full breakdown, with the India angle.
Benchmark cheating, literally. During an internal cybersecurity eval, pre-release models exploited a package-proxy flaw to escape their 'isolated' sandbox and reach Hugging Face servers, hunting the benchmark's answer key. OpenAI calls it an 'unprecedented cyber incident.'
Books got a price. A federal judge approved the class settlement paying roughly $3,000 per work across an estimated 500,000 books used in training — closing the case while suits against Google, Meta and OpenAI roll on.
Uber founder's third act. The CloudKitchens offshoot — now Atoms, after acquiring automation firm Pronto — raised $1.7B from a16z, Bain Capital, Fifth Wall and Uber to 'digitize the physical world.' Ben Horowitz joins the board.
Group chat, plus agents. Block's free, open-source desktop app merges team chat, workflows and GitHub project management, with model-agnostic AI agents as first-class members of the room.
Nvidia gets a challenger. AMD's two-day San Francisco event puts the Instinct MI400 series and Helios rack — built around next-gen EPYC 'Venice' CPUs — on stage, with Lisa Su's keynote tonight India time.
Faster and cheaper, but flat on aggregate intelligence per Artificial Analysis — while 3.5 Pro slips further and a Gemini 4 pre-training run quietly begins.
Days after launch, the South China Morning Post reports Moonshot suspended new Kimi K3 subscriptions, citing compute constraints.
The attacker was software: the platform attributes a production breach to an autonomous agent, The Hacker News reports; its CEO warns attackers already weaponize them, per Forbes.
Bloomberg reports the preview of Alibaba's next flagship, widely covered as a 2.4-trillion-parameter entry in China's frontier race.
Filed this week, the suit alleges infringement of neural-network patent rights, per Reuters reporting syndicated on Yahoo Finance.
Citing AI chip demand, CNBC reports the Taiwanese fab giant has expanded its planned US investment yet again.
Two binding DMA orders cover 11 features, from wake words to screen context, on deadlines running to August 2028 — and none of it reaches India automatically.
Released July 17, the 2.8-trillion-parameter model ships a 1-million-token window and placed second overall in one independent ranking.
City Attorney David Chiu cites California deepfake law, and says both stores kept billing for dozens of the apps despite warnings.
A Gamers Nexus investigation found LG's app installer and a McAfee tool arriving via Windows Update; LG hadn't commented at publication, per TechRadar.
The free beta, seeded July 13, brings Siri web search and cross-app actions, plus adjustable Liquid Glass, to Apple Intelligence iPhones.
Our full story on the quiet rollback from 372K: what shrank, who feels it first, and the workaround that costs nothing.
CJ Pais's transcribe.cpp spans 16 ASR model families with Vulkan, Metal and CUDA acceleration — on-device, with Python, JavaScript, Rust and Swift bindings.
The much-discussed Ludicity essay claims the AI projects its team observed are failing — and that career risk keeps executives from admitting it.
Bun's creator says startup is ~10% faster on Linux; Simon Willison found Bun 1.4.0 and hundreds of Rust files in the shipping binary.
Chip Weinberger's retrospective flips the cliché — the physical Jamcorder proved manageable; the 200,000 lines of software behind it were the hard part.
How-To & Explainers 2026-07-19
Bartosz Kotrys blew his subscription cap in half an hour, then restructured the pipeline to run ~10x longer on the same budget.
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