Sunday, 5 July 2026
Anthropic closes China relay loopholes
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Anthropic is blocking Chinese firms, including Ant and ByteDance, from reaching Claude via offshore subsidiaries, VPNs, and relay services, per the FT.
Claude apps gateway for AWS and GCP
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Anthropic ships a self-hosted control plane that adds SSO, central policy, and per-user spend limits to Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud.
Midjourney seeks AI disclosure from studios
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Midjourney asks the court to make Disney and Universal disclose their own internal AI use, reframing the copyright fight as a symmetry argument.
Google AI carbon up 25%, Amazon up 16%
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2025 sustainability reports show AI data-center demand pushing carbon up: Google's emissions rose 25% year on year, Amazon's 16%, despite efficiency work.
Transformers 5.13 adds Kimi K2.5 support
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Transformers v5.13.0 adds native support for the Kimi K2.5 to K2.7 model family, broader ONNX export tooling, and generation and quantization fixes.
Mistral releases Leanstral 1.5 for Lean 4
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Mistral's Apache-2.0 Leanstral 1.5 (119B MoE, 6B active) is an open code agent for Lean 4 proofs, solving 587 of 672 PutnamBench problems.