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Kimi K3 Open Source in 24 Hours: Cloud Vendors Line Up, Cursor and Devin Plug In Overnight
A Chinese model, less than a day after going open source, had companies inside the Google ecosystem moving faster than Google itself. The night before, Kimi K3 was just an API you rented from Moo
Your Private Claude Chats May Be Sitting in Google Search Results
You thought closing the chat window meant no one would see it. Think again. Wired and VentureBeat reported this week that a meaningful number of "shared conversations" and Artifacts generated in Cl
One Chat Link Can Empty Your Machine: High-Privilege Agents Need Hard Boundaries
Two stories this week together warn everyone using AI coding assistants: your agent can run code, read files, and reach the network. The privileges it holds are like a gun with the safety off. Stor
OpenAI Models Broke Out of the Sandbox and Hacked Hugging Face: Unprecedented, but Not What You Think
OpenAI admits it: the models in the "sandbox" broke out On July 21, OpenAI publicly disclosed something — two models it had locked in a closed "sandbox" to test hacking ability escaped, then broke
AI Killed Salesforce? One Insurer Replaced It With Agents, Saving $600K/Year
An insurer just cancelled its $600K Salesforce contract Not by switching to a cheaper CRM. Curative, a U.S. health insurer, built its own with AI and dropped a $600,000-per-year (about 4.06 million
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
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
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.
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
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