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Meta Fixed Its Coding AI. Too Bad Nobody Trusts the Company Anymore.

Autonomy

Meta Fixed Its Coding AI. Too Bad Nobody Trusts the Company Anymore.

Watermelon catches up to GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks. But Meta also launched an image tool that uses your public Instagram photos by default. One step forward. One step…

3 min read July 9, 2026 Jeff Lu
The Pope Just Joined the AI Debate. So Did 250 Kids From 50 Countries.

Autonomy

The Pope Just Joined the AI Debate. So Did 250 Kids From 50 Countries.

The UN's AI for Good summit is happening in Geneva right now. No model launches. No billion-dollar rounds. Just the Vatican, a robotics competition, and a fight over who…

5 min read July 9, 2026 Jeff Lu
IBM Bob Just Got Smarter. Now AI Has a New Problem: Reviewing Its Own Code.

Business

IBM Bob Just Got Smarter. Now AI Has a New Problem: Reviewing Its Own Code.

IBM's agentic platform now uses multi-agent teams to handle COBOL and Java modernization. The bottleneck isn't writing code anymore — it's checking it. And Bob has an ans…

3 min read July 9, 2026 Jeff Lu
Meta Finally Built Its Own AI Chip. Now Comes the Hard Part.

Hardware

Meta Finally Built Its Own AI Chip. Now Comes the Hard Part.

Iris is a five-year engineering victory. The $145 billion price tag is why the stock dropped 3%. Both things are true.

3 min read July 9, 2026 Jeff Lu
OpenAI Built a $10B Voice Model. The Killer Feature? "Mhmm."

Hardware

OpenAI Built a $10B Voice Model. The Killer Feature? "Mhmm."

GPT-Live finally makes talking to AI feel human. But OpenAI isn't stopping at software — it wants 50 million people wearing its headphones by next year. Good luck with th…

3 min read July 9, 2026 Jeff Lu
DeepSeek's Two-Front War: Buying Nvidia Chips While Building Its Own

Autonomy

DeepSeek's Two-Front War: Buying Nvidia Chips While Building Its Own

China's most talked-about AI lab is quietly designing its own inference chip — while simultaneously securing up to 200,000 Nvidia H200 GPUs for training. It's not a contr…

6 min read July 9, 2026 Jeff Lu
JPMorgan Just Put SambaNova in Production. That’s a Bigger Deal Than the $1B Round.

Business

JPMorgan Just Put SambaNova in Production. That’s a Bigger Deal Than the $1B Round.

The bank didn’t just write a check — it’s running real AI workloads on SambaNova’s chips. That single fact matters more than the valuation spike, and it signals a quiet s…

5 min read July 8, 2026 Jeff Lu
The Claude Code Steganography Incident: How an AI Coding Tool Marked Users in Plain Sight

Autonomy

The Claude Code Steganography Incident: How an AI Coding Tool Marked Users in Plain Sight

Claude Code was exposed to have built-in covert monitoring code: it detects time zones and domain names of 147 Chinese companies, and transmits users' identity informatio…

5 min read July 8, 2026 Jeff Lu
Grok 4.5 Goes Public Tomorrow. Elon Musk Says It‘s Opus-Class — Faster, Cheaper, and More Efficient.

Models

Grok 4.5 Goes Public Tomorrow. Elon Musk Says It‘s Opus-Class — Faster, Cheaper, and More Efficient.

SpaceXAI is rolling out Grok 4.5 to the public on July 8 (or July 9, depending on your time zone). Musk called it an Opus-level model that outperforms on speed, token eff…

2 min read July 8, 2026 Jeff Lu
GPT-5.6 goes fully public Thursday. The government just let it happen.

Models

GPT-5.6 goes fully public Thursday. The government just let it happen.

OpenAI announced on July 8 that GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna will launch publicly on July 9 — Thursday. This follows the Commerce Department’s approval to lift the restri…

2 min read July 8, 2026 Jeff Lu
DeepSeek Is Building Its Own Chip. It’s Not a Copy of OpenAI‘s Strategy.

Business

DeepSeek Is Building Its Own Chip. It’s Not a Copy of OpenAI‘s Strategy.

The Chinese AI lab is developing a custom inference chip to reduce its dependence on both Nvidia and Huawei, according to a Reuters exclusive on July 6. The project start…

3 min read July 7, 2026 Jeff Lu
The Great Humanoid Debate: Silicon Valley Is Split on Whether Robots Should Have Legs

Hardware

The Great Humanoid Debate: Silicon Valley Is Split on Whether Robots Should Have Legs

A growing number of top investors are publicly questioning the humanoid form factor. “Humanoid robots might just be a gimmick,” one partner said. But Tesla, Boston Dynami…

3 min read July 7, 2026 Jeff Lu
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