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Mira Murati's First Move: Inkling, 975B Open Weights with Native Audio
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
Kimi K3 Drops at Midnight: 2.8T Params, the Largest Open Model Yet
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's Gemini 3.5 Pro Drops Tomorrow: A Month-Long Retrain to Beat Fable 5 at Frontend
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
InstaLILY Sends AI Forward Deployed Engineers Into Companies — $60M Raised, 5x Revenue Growth
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
After His Mom Was Hit by an AI Voice-Clone Scam, He Built an Anti-Scam App — Just Raised $7M
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
OpenAI's First Hardware Revealed: A Screenless Smart Speaker Built to Be Your AI Companion
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 Quietly Replaced OpenAI with Its Own MAI Models in Excel and Outlook
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
WAIC Next Week: 1,100 Companies, 300 Global Debuts, AI Agent Phone Premiere
Record Scale July 17-20. The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance opens in Shanghai. The numbers: 1,100+ companies exhibiting — a record 3
Douyin Cracks Down: 1,300 AI-Mocked Kids Cartoon Accounts Suspended, 23,400 Videos Pulled
What Happened July 11. Douyin's official account posted a notice: a special campaign against AI-mocked classic children's cartoons has processed 23,400 violating videos and suspended 1,300 accounts.
WeChat Gives 10 Billion Tokens Plus Hunyuan Hy3: Mini-Program Devs Stop Watching the Quota Bar
Ten Times the Quota July 7. WeChat Open Class announced the Mini-Program Growth Plan upgrade: LLM token quota jumps from 100 million to 1 billion, AI image generation from 10K to 100K. The model sta
Zhipu Internal Letter Revealed: Betting on AI Operating System and Self-Designed Chips
An Internal Letter July 11. Zhipu founder Tang Jie sent an internal letter named Touch High — the Reach-High Plan. Its weight isn't in slogans but in laying out Zhipu's two-year direction clearly: n
Tonight 7PM: StepFun Launches World's First AI Agent Phone, Rivals ZTE Nubia
Tonight's the Night July 13, 7PM, Shanghai. StepFun is holding a launch event — the StepFun Terminal Brand and Next-Gen Agent Strategy Release. One-line pitch: the world's first AI agent smartphone.