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Meta Super Sensing Glasses Exposed: Always Recording, and the Light Stays Off
Meta's Glasses Want to Listen Forever: "Super Sensing" Plan Exposed, and the Light Stays Off On July 8, the Financial Times dropped a bombshell. Meta is internally prototyping AI smart glasses coden
Cursor's Secret Project Sand: The Code Editor Wants to Run Your Inbox
Cursor Isn't Just Writing Code Anymore: Secret Project Sand Wants Your Inbox On July 9, The Information dropped a scoop. Cursor — the company that blew up thanks to its AI code editor — is secretly
ChatGPT Stops Chatting, Starts Working: OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Work
OpenAI Stops Making You Chat. It Wants You to Work. On July 10, OpenAI did something big. ChatGPT officially merged with Codex. They launched something called ChatGPT Work. Not a new chat box — an a
ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Pro: 4K Native + Layer Editing, AI Image Generator Becomes a Design Tool
ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Pro: 4K native + layer editing, image generator becomes a design tool July 9, ByteDance released Seedream 5.0 Pro. On the surface, another AI image model. But this one's d
GPT-Live Launches: OpenAI's Full-Duplex Voice AI, 150 Million Weekly Users
GPT-Live launches: AI that listens while it talks, 150 million weekly users July 8, OpenAI released GPT-Live. Unlike the old Advanced Voice Mode, this is true full-duplex — the AI can listen and
Meituan Open-Sources 1.6T LongCat: Trained on Domestic Chips, Zero NVIDIA
Meituan open-sources 1.6T model: trained entirely on domestic chips, zero NVIDIA July 2, Meituan open-sourced LongCat-2.0. 1.6T parameter MoE, 59.5 on SWE-bench Pro, pricing at $0.038 per millio
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