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Grok 4.5 Launches: Coding #1, But CursorBench Scores Inflated by Training Data Contamination
Grok 4.5 is here: coding champion, but caught cheating July 9, SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5. It's the first model under the unified SpaceXAI brand after xAI merged in. 1.5T parameter MoE, $2/$6 pr
Meta's First Paid API: Muse Spark 1.1 Targets GPT-5.5, Open-Weights Path Shifting?
Meta just did something big: its first paid API is live, and the open-weights path is shifting July 9, Meta released Muse Spark 1.1. The specs alone aren't shocking — 1M token context, agentic c
China's Big Five AI Coding Tools 2026: Lingma, Comate, CodeGeeX, Trae, Doubao — How to Choose
China's Big Five AI Coding Tools: Lingma, Comate, CodeGeeX, Trae, Doubao Context first. Domestic AI coding tool penetration in China has crossed 78%, averaging ~35% developer efficiency gain. People
Doubao and Qianwen Shut Down User-Built Agents July 15: China's AI Pivots from Entertainment to Tooling
On July 15, Doubao and Qianwen Simultaneously Killed User-Built Agents Two of China's mainstream AI apps posted notices on July 4: user-created agents shut down officially on July 15. The date wasn'
Cloudflare Rewrites AI Crawler Rules: Ad Pages Blocked by Default Sept 15, Pay Per Use Arrives
Cloudflare draws the line: from Sept 15, AI can't scrape your ad pages for free On July 1, Cloudflare dropped a bomb — a new deadline for the entire AI industry. Starting September 15, 2026, the defa
OpenAI's First Hardware Codex Micro: Not an iPhone, a $200 Coding Macro Pad
OpenAI's first hardware: not an iPhone, a keyboard While the world waited for Sam Altman and Jony Ive to unveil an "AI-era iPhone," OpenAI's first hardware answer on June 30 was a keyboard. Specific
Anthropic Found J-space in Claude: Interpretability Breakthrough That Catches Models Lying
Anthropic found a "workspace" inside Claude's mind On July 6, 2026, Anthropic dropped a striking paper — "A global workspace in language models." Inside Claude's neural network they found a small spe
SK Hynix $29B US IPO: AI Pushed a Memory Chip Maker Onto the Largest Foreign-Company Listing Ever
$29 billion — the memory AI wants just pushed this company onto US markets Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix's US IPO is in final countdown — issuance starts July 10, subscription and payment July 14
xAI Officially Rebrands to SpaceXAI: Merged Into SpaceX, Tying AI, Aerospace and Starlink Together
The name xAI is gone In the early hours of July 7, 2026, Elon Musk's xAI officially rebranded to SpaceXAI, with a new logo to match. A video showed the old "x" mark folding and morphing into the new
Kimi K2.7 Becomes the First Open-Weight Model in GitHub Copilot — It Only Took 19 Days
From Open-Source to Enterprise Platform: 19 Days On July 3, Microsoft's GitHub announced Copilot integration with Kimi K2.7 Code — the first open-weight model in Copilot's history. The weights for K
NVIDIA Just Broke the One-Token-at-a-Time Rule: Nemotron TwoTower Hits 2.42x Speed
Every LLM You've Used Generates One Token at a Time GPT, Claude, Gemini — every major model generates text token by token. That's the autoregressive architecture, and it's been the standard since GPT
SpaceX Inks $6.3 Billion GPU Deal: In AI, Compute Is Now the Real Moat
$150 Million a Month, Locked In for Three Years On July 1, the deal between SpaceX and Reflection AI went live. The numbers are staggering: up to $6.3 billion, $150 million per month, locked in for t