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From "give us one more month" to "coming soon" At Google I/O on May 19, Sundar Pichai stood on stage and said: give us one more month. Everyone bought it. A month later, nothing shipped. The new lin

A Chinese model prices like an American one for the first time Kimi K3's API pricing: per million tokens, $0.30 cache-hit input, $3 cache-miss input, $15 output. The last two — $3 input, $15 output

A blind test win, not a self-reported score First, let's be clear about what this leaderboard is. Arena's Frontend Code Arena uses the Elo rating system — same logic as chess rankings. Real develope

Mira Murati's first card Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, pulled the wraps off its first foundation model on July 17 — Inkling. 975 billion parameters, Mixture-of-Exp

2.8 trillion. The open-weights ceiling just broke again. At midnight on July 17, Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K3. 2.8 trillion parameters, Mixture-of-Experts, 16 experts fired per token — the first open

Google Is Making a Big Bet Tomorrow, July 17, Google DeepMind's flagship model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, finally drops. It was supposed to land in June. Instead it got pushed back over a month. And this wasn

This AI Isn't Here to Assist You On July 14, a company called InstaLILY raised a $60 million Series B. Led by Energize Capital, with Home Depot Ventures and United Rentals piling in as strategic inve

This Starts With a Scam Call Two years ago, Patrick Coughlin's mother got a phone call. On the other end was her daughter — crying, saying she'd been kidnapped, demanding ransom. It was an AI voice

Not a Keyboard — a Speaker Bloomberg revealed on July 15 that OpenAI's long-awaited first consumer hardware device is a screenless, movable smart speaker. The Codex Micro that went on sale July 15 i

Microsoft Is Pulling Away from OpenAI Bloomberg dropped a scoop on July 14: Microsoft has been quietly swapping OpenAI and Anthropic models for its own MAI series inside Excel and Outlook. Tens of t