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Daily Pulse: Claude Opus 5 at Half Price, Nvidia's $250B Backstop, and the Open-Weight Letter

Anthropic ships a near-frontier model at half price, Nvidia weighs a $250B backstop for OpenAI's Ohio campus, and a Canadian politician reads his chatbot's instructions aloud.

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Weekly Round-up: OpenAI's AI Breaches Hugging Face, China's Kimi K3, and an 87-Year Math Problem Falls

Jul 27, 2026

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Weekly Round-up: OpenAI's AI Breaches Hugging Face, China's Kimi K3, and an 87-Year Math Problem Falls

OpenAI's own AI breached Hugging Face's servers during a safety test, China's Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 undercut US pricing, and an AI-assisted proof took down an 87-year-old math problem.

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Jul 24, 2026

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Daily Pulse: Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, Amazon's AGI Cuts, and Microsoft's Mistral Bet

Anthropic pays $1.5 billion, the largest AI copyright settlement yet, Amazon cuts AGI jobs as its AI spend hits $200 billion, and Microsoft backs Mistral with billions more.

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Jul 22, 2026

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Daily Pulse: Kimi K3's Coding Crown, Claude Cracks an 87-Year Math Problem, and Washington's China AI Rethink

Kimi K3 tops a coding leaderboard days before its open release, an Anthropic researcher uses Claude to crack an 87-year-old math problem, and Washington rethinks its stance on Chinese AI models.

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Jul 21, 2026

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Daily Pulse: Meta's $10B Anthropic Compute Deal, Alibaba's 2.4T Model, and the First Robot Strike

Meta agrees to rent Anthropic up to $10 billion in AI compute, Alibaba previews a 2.4-trillion-parameter open model, and Hyundai workers stage the first-ever strike over humanoid robots.

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Weekly Round-up: Grok's Code Leak, Kimi K3 Tops the Charts, and OpenAI's $230 Keypad

Jul 20, 2026

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Weekly Round-up: Grok's Code Leak, Kimi K3 Tops the Charts, and OpenAI's $230 Keypad

xAI's coding tool quietly uploaded entire codebases, China's Kimi K3 hit #1 in global AI rankings, and OpenAI's first hardware is a $230 keypad.

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Jul 17, 2026

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Daily Pulse: Anthropic's $1.5B Bet and Gemini's Reboot

Anthropic and Blackstone bet $1.5B on AI implementation, Google rebuilds Gemini 3.5 Pro overnight, and a $650K rideable robot lands ahead of a Shanghai IPO.

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Jul 15, 2026

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Daily Pulse: Grok's Data Leak, DeepSeek's $71B Round, and AI's Jobs Warning

xAI's coding tool quietly shipped whole codebases to the cloud, DeepSeek chases a $71B valuation, and economists warn the AI jobs shock is years away, not decades.

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Jul 14, 2026

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Daily Pulse: Apple Sues OpenAI, SK Hynix's Nasdaq Surge

Apple sues OpenAI for stealing hardware secrets, SK Hynix's $28B Nasdaq debut jumps 13%, and Goldman Sachs tells clients to buy Chinese AI models instead.

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Weekly Round-up: GPT-5.6, Meta's Paid AI, and Claude's Hidden Mind

Jul 13, 2026

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Weekly Round-up: GPT-5.6, Meta's Paid AI, and Claude's Hidden Mind

OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a work app with GPT-5.6, Meta charges for AI for the first time with Muse Spark 1.1, and Anthropic finds a hidden "thinking space" inside Claude nobody designed.

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Jul 8, 2026

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Daily Pulse: Claude's Hidden Workspace, Illinois' AI Audit Law

Anthropic finds a hidden workspace inside Claude, Illinois passes the toughest AI law yet, and a 295B open model goes free for two weeks.

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Jul 7, 2026

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Daily Pulse: OpenAI's $42B Stake, China's AI Agent Ban

OpenAI offers Washington a $42.6 billion stake, Beijing shuts down two of China's biggest AI companions by July 15, and Amazon commits $1 billion to deploy AI inside your business.

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Daily Pulse: Claude Opus 5 at Half Price, Nvidia's $250B Backstop, and the Open-Weight Letter

Weekly Round-up: OpenAI's AI Breaches Hugging Face, China's Kimi K3, and an 87-Year Math Problem Falls

Daily Pulse: Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, Amazon's AGI Cuts, and Microsoft's Mistral Bet

Daily Pulse: Kimi K3's Coding Crown, Claude Cracks an 87-Year Math Problem, and Washington's China AI Rethink

Daily Pulse: Meta's $10B Anthropic Compute Deal, Alibaba's 2.4T Model, and the First Robot Strike

Weekly Round-up: Grok's Code Leak, Kimi K3 Tops the Charts, and OpenAI's $230 Keypad

Daily Pulse: Anthropic's $1.5B Bet and Gemini's Reboot

Daily Pulse: Grok's Data Leak, DeepSeek's $71B Round, and AI's Jobs Warning

Daily Pulse: Apple Sues OpenAI, SK Hynix's Nasdaq Surge

Weekly Round-up: GPT-5.6, Meta's Paid AI, and Claude's Hidden Mind

Daily Pulse: Claude's Hidden Workspace, Illinois' AI Audit Law

Daily Pulse: OpenAI's $42B Stake, China's AI Agent Ban

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