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Models, agents, infra, applied AI.
- Midjourney wants Hollywood to open its AI files
A new motion asks a judge to widen discovery beyond AI work that resulted in consumer-facing images or videos.
- Okhai's Foundation builds a stricter stack for AI-era software
The public Ovasabi repo pairs Go, Rust/WASM and TypeScript with agent rules, performance gates and a license that limits AI training.
- Dario Amodei's Samsung chip talks put Anthropic deeper into the compute business
Anthropic has not picked a chip use case, server design or production path, but its Samsung discussions show how Claude demand is pulling the lab toward silicon.
- Bilawal Sidhu turns Meta Ray-Ban footage into a 4D scene with Claude Fable 5
The ex-Google AR/VR PM says IronSight was made from two pairs of smart-glasses footage after a few hours of experiments.
- Mistral opens Leanstral 1.5 in a bet on machine-checked AI
Arthur Mensch's Paris lab says the Lean 4 model solves 587 PutnamBench problems and found five previously unreported bugs.
- Wafer pushes GLM-5.2 Fast onto AMD as Nvidia inference costs bite
The six-person inference startup says MI355X tuning got GLM-5.2 to 2626 tok/s/node, with Vercel and OpenRouter now carrying the model.
- Yang Zhilin's Kimi lands inside GitHub Copilot's model picker
GitHub is rolling out Kimi K2.7 Code to paid Copilot users, with enterprise access gated behind admin policy controls.
- Braygent's Fable 5 take puts token budgets ahead of context-window hype
A thin July 3rd post points to a real agent-builder problem: Fable 5 is powerful, expensive, and easy to waste without tighter context design.
- Ethan Mollick's Unity test turns Claude Fable 5 into a game-making agent
The Wharton professor gave Anthropic's model Unity and MCP access, then asked for a WebGL FPS from one high-level prompt.
- Stanford's Merlin puts vision-language AI on full 3D CT scans
The Nature study tested Merlin across 752 tasks and released code, weights and a de-identified abdominal CT dataset.
- Yann LeCun's AMI Labs is selling investors on the AI problem chatbots cannot solve
The Paris startup's $1.03B seed round is a March bet on world models, robotics and the limits of language-first AI.
- Alexandr Wang tells Meta employees Watermelon has caught GPT-5.5
The benchmark claim gives Zuckerberg a talking point for Meta's $125 billion-plus AI infrastructure buildout, but Watermelon is still unreleased.
- Zuckerberg says Meta's AI agents are moving slower than expected
Meta's founder told employees the company's AI reorganization has not yet delivered the payoff behind its 2026 spending surge.
- Vincent van der Meulen says Claude Fable 5 generated 60+ ready-to-merge pull requests overnight
Vincent van der Meulen's prompt turns a model into a manager over Devin sessions, issue trackers, Slack and review bots.
- Yuval Noah Harari warns that AI will take power through bureaucracy before robots
In a newly posted Oxford lecture, the Sapiens author argues that language models are built for the systems that run money, law and trust.
- Startup Spotlight: Inside Pastmaps’ Solo Climb to Six Figures
Craig Campbell turned a metal-detecting itch into a six-figure historical maps startup. His Threads archive reads like a live founder diary: outages, customer calls, pricing panic, AI agents, SEO cliffs, and the strange little wins that compound.
- Valar Atomics Turns a Nuclear Demo Into Nvidia AI Factory Pitch
Isaiah Taylor's Ward 250 powered a Blackwell PC, but the larger 30 MW data-center plan still has unproven economics and few public terms.
- OpenAI's 5% government stake proposal turns AI upside into a Washington bargain
The reported proposal would put public ownership into OpenAI's cap table as Washington presses AI labs on safety, jobs and upside.
- iTmethods joins Linux Foundation push to standardize governed agentic AI
Founder Paul Goldman is taking iTmethods' regulated-infrastructure playbook into FINOS and the Agentic AI Foundation.
- Musk and Altman are headed to mediation as OpenAI's governance fight refuses to clear
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers appointed a mediator weeks after a jury found Musk’s claims time-barred.
- The AI backlash is real. The adoption curve is stronger.
Data from Stanford, Gallup, Stripe, AWS and the U.S. Chamber points to AI moving from novelty into default business infrastructure.
- Takeda's $600 Million Insilico Deal Puts Alex Zhavoronkov's AI Platform Deeper Into Big Pharma
The proposed pact gives Takeda worldwide rights to AI-discovered drug candidates while leaving most of the economics tied to milestones.
- Ray 2.56 shows where agent infrastructure is hard: serving and data stability
Ray 2.56.0 is not an agent launch. It is a reminder that production agents depend on the less visible layers: data, serving, scheduling and operational stability.
- Weiyan Shi's Shepherd gives AI agents a supervisor with a rewind button
The Northeastern and Stanford team open-sourced a Python framework for meta-agents that can inspect, fork, replay and repair agent runs.