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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
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
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
xAI Officially Rebrands to SpaceXAI: Merged Into SpaceX, Tying AI, Aerospace and Starlink Together
The name xAI is gone In the early hours of July 7, 2026, Elon Musk's xAI officially rebranded to SpaceXAI, with a new logo to match. A video showed the old "x" mark folding and morphing into the new
Kimi K2.7 Becomes the First Open-Weight Model in GitHub Copilot — It Only Took 19 Days
From Open-Source to Enterprise Platform: 19 Days On July 3, Microsoft's GitHub announced Copilot integration with Kimi K2.7 Code — the first open-weight model in Copilot's history. The weights for K
Claude Sonnet 5 Is Here: Anthropic Bets Big on Agentic Coding
On June 30, Anthropic Shipped Sonnet 5 No keynote. No event. Just shipped. On June 30, Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, and by that afternoon it was the default model for Free and Pro users. From
Fable 5 Returns: The Three-Way LLM Race, Who's Ahead?
Fable 5 Is Back: The Three-Way LLM Race, Who's Ahead? On July 1, Anthropic confirmed that Claude Fable 5 has been restored globally. Exactly three weeks since it was forced offline by US government