News Summary (2026-29)

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[AINews] Kimi K3 2.8T-A50B: the largest open model ever released; Opus 4.8-class at Sonnet 5 pricing #

[AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B) #

[AINews] Codex usage up >10x in 6 months to 7M users, +1M in the past ~day; did Codex overtake Claude Code?? #

A scorecard for the AI age #

Why teens deserve access to safe AI #

How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI #

The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action #

GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness #

How to manage AI investments in the agentic era #

How sales teams use ChatGPT Work #

How data science teams use ChatGPT Work #

The Download: perimenopause misinformation and China’s latest AI leap #

There’s a lot of hype around perimenopause. Don’t buy it. #

The risk of weather data sabotage is rising #

The Download: OpenAI unveils GPT-Red and heat pumps rise in the US #

Why heat pumps are still so hot in the US #

Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer #

The Download: a useful quantum machine and a record-breaking subsea tunnel #

The Download: Claude’s inner workings, and the future of world models #

PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light #

What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show #

I've got an Inkling #

How to use GPT-5.6 #

Fine-tune video and image models at scale with NVIDIA NeMo Automodel and 🤗 Diffusers #

Newer Models, Same Advantage #

Security incident disclosure — July 2026 #

What building Shippy taught us about building agents #

Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn’t. #

Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines #

Introducing Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AI #

Shark’s versatile ChillPill cooling system is back to its best price #

TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool #

Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky says his 30-day warranty is all about trust #

Apple Music is getting a price hike #

Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI #

Asus’ top-end 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor is $400 off #

Samsung’s redesigned Z Fold 8 with a wide display just leaked #

Is America ready for this quirky Jeep-looking EV that can park itself? #

Florida man arrested for allegedly stealing over $200,000 in crypto using Steam game malware #

Over half a million power tool batteries have been recalled due to a USB-C charging fire risk #

AWS Billing Glitch Hits Customers With Billion-Dollar Fees #

What Cities From Chicago to Washington, DC, Look Like Under a Blanket of Wildfire Smoke #

Polymarket’s Corporate Structure Is a Mystery—Even to Some of Its Former Employees #

ICE Is Using Data Broker Tools to ‘Identify Unaccompanied Minors’ and ‘Fraud’ #

‘The Odyssey’ Backlash Failed Tremendously #

Lyft’s CEO Says, ‘We’re the Good Uber’ #

The Best New Camping Gear at REI (2026): Tents, Coolers, Bikes, More #

Conspiracy Theorists Think Trump’s Speech Paves the Path to the Insurrection Act #

5 Best Smart Speakers (2026): Alexa, Google, Apple #

Valve Steam Machine Review: A Compromised Console #

Panasonic Japanese Microwave Review (2026): True 1-Button Cooking #

23 Best Gifts for Cooks (2026): Vitamix, Frying Pans, Air Fryers #

A $10K Bounty Aims to Make Sony’s PlayStation 5 a Computer Again #

San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores #

The Group Behind ‘2000 Mules’ Is Back With Another Election Conspiracy Film #

The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year #

A Humanoid Company Backed by Eric Trump Is Preparing Its Robots for War #

iRobot Promo Code: 15% Off #

30% VistaPrint Coupon & Promo Codes | July 2026 #

Whoop Promo Codes: 20% Off This July 2026 #

Pete Hegseth’s Plan for ‘High T’ Troops Is a Junk-Science Fever Dream #

Why Apple Sued OpenAI, New York Takes on Data Centers, and What to Know about Cyclosporiasis #

Salad Chains Are Seeing Foot Traffic Drop Over Cyclosporiasis Fears #

Do Face Masks Help With Wildfire Smoke? Yes, But More Is Needed #

Review: Xgimi Titan Noir Max Home Projector (2026) #

Everyone Thinks They Have the Diarrhea Parasite #

Here’s Why Anthropic Is Pushing States to Regulate AI Faster #

Swatch’s New Gold MoonSwatch Solves the Problem of the Nightmare Royal Pop Launch #

XPeng’s New ‘Budget’ EV Looks Like the Ferrari Luce #

11 Best Sleeping Bags (2026): Ultralight, Warm Weather, for Kids #

The Best Backpacking Water Filters of 2026 #

Hisense XR10 Smart Projector Review: RGB-Powered Wonder #

Gay Men Flocked to Goose for Friendship. Some Still Feel Excluded #

Best Air Purifiers (2026): Coway, AirDoctor, IQAir, and More #

Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI #

Astronomers Have Found a Sugar Molecule in Deep Space for the First Time Ever #

OnePlus, the ‘Flagship-Killer’ Smartphone Brand, Is All but Dead #

Bunkerhill raises $55M to scale agentic AI across health systems #

Examining Google DeepMind’s AI bioresilience push #

Neko Health raises $700 million to expand AI body scans in the US #

Nokia’s AI-RAN platform: a radio comeback that runs on NVIDIA #

AWS and Bluesight build AI for hospital 340B compliance #

AI agent crawlers now need permission. Here’s how to get it #

Zuckerberg's plan to sell excess AI compute could finds its first big customer in Anthropic #

GPT-5.6 is deleting user files when given full access, and OpenAI says it shouldn't but did #

Just like Deepseek, China's Kimi K3 is forcing Western AI labs to question their compute advantage #

Linus Torvalds tells AI critics in the Linux kernel community to fork off #

Netflix's 300 AI productions show how fast the technology is spreading through entertainment #

Kimi's open model K3 nears GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 while signaling the end of super cheap Chinese AI #

Google rebrands NotebookLM as Gemini Notebook and opens its search app to third-party integration #

Germany puts Google's AI Overviews and Perplexity under media law in first-of-its-kind ruling #

OpenAI wants developers to stop typing commands and start using a joystick to control their AI agents #

Sakana AI's orchestrator adds Nvidia Nemotron to prove "collective intelligence" can rival single frontier models #

Create, edit and star in videos with two Google Vids updates #

Celebrating 25 years of visual search innovation #