Tuesday, 7 July 2026

Meta's first image model lets users @-mention public Instagram accounts to pull real likenesses into generated scenes, drawing privacy pushback.

Anthropic's office agent now runs cross-device and continues tasks after the device goes offline, rolling out to Max subscribers first through August 5.

Anthropic ends the Fable 5 promo cycle: it joins Max and Team Premium plans for good on July 20, at 50% of limits, while Pro drops to API pricing.

Robostral Navigate guides robots through unfamiliar spaces from a single RGB camera, beating multi-sensor rigs by 4.5 points on the R2R-CE benchmark.

Anthropic identifies J-space, neural patterns inside Claude that causally mediate complex reasoning, plus a J-lens tool that lets researchers read them.

JADEPUFFER is the first autonomous AI ransomware: an LLM agent exploited a Langflow RCE and encrypted 1,342 production config items without any human direction.

Two new Realtime API models cut p95 latency by at least 25% and add configurable reasoning effort and tool use, available in the OpenAI API now.

Tencent officially releases Hy3 under Apache 2.0: 295 billion total parameters, 21 billion active, 256K context, free on OpenRouter through July 21.

Google added async background execution, direct remote MCP connections, and custom function calling to Gemini API Managed Agents.

Isaac GR00T 1.7, billed as the first open, commercially viable robot foundation model, and the Isaac Teleop data tool are now integrated into LeRobot.

Microsoft is moving some Copilot prompts in Excel and Outlook from OpenAI and Anthropic to its own MAI models to cut costs, Bloomberg reports.

Transcribe Arabic scores 25.87 WER, beating Meta's OmniASR by 2.45 points and Whisper by 11, preferred over Whisper in 95.8% of blind tests.

Reuters reports DeepSeek has spent about a year developing an inference chip to cut reliance on Nvidia and Huawei amid US export controls.

The European Commission's plan addresses AI's potential to identify vulnerabilities and automate attacks, coordinating defenses across member states.

Norm's Series C, led by Khosla Ventures, values the compliance-automation company at $1.2B and brings its total funding past $260M.

A two-week internal exercise combining AI agents with human red-teaming found a critical lateral-movement chain in AISI's own staging cloud environment.