Thursday, 9 July 2026
Anthropic adds Ben Bernanke to benefit trust
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Ben Bernanke joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, which holds board-appointment authority and advises on AI risk. Trustees hold no equity.
ChatGPT Work launches with Hosted Sites
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OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on July 9, a GPT-5.6-powered background agent that creates documents, sites and web apps autonomously for hours.
Claude Code ships /doctor and safety rules
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Claude Code v2.1.205 adds /doctor for setup diagnostics, transcript tampering protection, a ~400 MB auto-update memory cut, and a Windows NTFS junction fix.
Claude Reflect shows your usage patterns
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Claude Reflect beta launched July 9 for Free, Pro and Max users with Memory on; shows usage topics, peak times and chat counts over 1-12 months.
Cline 4.0.7 drops GLM 5.1, adds free tabs
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Cline v4.0.7 removes GLM 5.1 from ClinePass, adds Subscribed and Free model tabs, and delivers a one-click path to usage-based billing when limits are hit.
Cognition SWE-1.7 runs at 1,000 tok/s
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Cognition's SWE-1.7 scores 42.3% on FrontierCode 1.1 and runs at 1,000 tok/s via Cerebras at $1.97 per task, built on Kimi K2.7-Code.
Gemini 3.5 Pro pushed to July 17
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Google scrapped the 2.5 Pro architecture and rebuilt Gemini 3.5 Pro from scratch, adding a 2M-token context and Deep Think mode for a July 17 release.
GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna go public
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OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna on July 9 after a 12-day Commerce Dept review. Sol is $5/$30, Terra $2.50/$15, Luna $1/$6 per million tokens.
Ollama raises $65M Series B
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Theory Ventures led Ollama's $65M Series B as the local-model platform reaches 8.9M monthly developers and 67,000-plus community integrations.
PyTorch 2.13 brings FlexAttention to MPS
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PyTorch 2.13 lands FlexAttention on Apple Silicon with up to 12x speedup, a fused loss op that cuts peak memory 4x, and deterministic CUDA gradients.
Seedream 5.0 Pro adds multilingual layers
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ByteDance released Seedream 5.0 Pro on July 8 with native generation in 10-plus languages, precision layer editing, and dense infographic creation.
Thrive Holdings raises $2B for AI rollups
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Josh Kushner's Thrive Holdings raised roughly $2B from SoftBank, Altimeter, and D1 to buy accounting and IT services firms and redeploy AI across them.
Akeneo adds agentic layer for product data
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Akeneo launched Agentic Ziggy on July 8, an orchestration layer for its Product Cloud deploying agents for enrichment, channel compliance, and data quality.
Anthropic hits $1.2T on secondary markets
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Caplight and Rainmaker Securities report Anthropic shares trading at an implied $1.2 trillion on secondary markets as of July 9, topping OpenAI's $908B.
DeepMind ships Greek and Latin text agent
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Google DeepMind launched a Predicting the Past skill on July 7, letting historians query ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions in plain English.
Sberbank releases GigaChat 3.5 Ultra open
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Sberbank's ai-sage released GigaChat 3.5 Ultra (432B total, 28B active MoE) as open weights with day-0 GGUF support, Apache 2.0, on July 6.
Gemini Sheets Fill expands to 11 languages
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Google began rolling out Fill with Gemini in Sheets to 11 more languages including Mandarin, Dutch, Hebrew, Polish, and Turkish starting July 7.
Hermes Agent adds 1Password native support
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NousResearch's Hermes Agent now supports pluggable secrets backends including native 1Password and Bitwarden, keeping API keys out of .env files entirely.
Liquid AI open-sources doom-loop fix
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Liquid AI released Antidoom on July 7, an open-source FTPO training method that cut repetitive reasoning loops in LFM2.5-2.6B from 10.2% to 1.4% of completions.
Monogram raises $40M for visual AI interface
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Monogram emerged from stealth July 7 with a $40M seed led by DST Global and Lux Capital; the app generates interactive visual UIs from queries, not text blobs.
NVIDIA Audex 30B unifies audio and text
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Nvidia released Audex-30B on July 7, a 30B/3B-active MoE with 1M context covering speech recognition, TTS, audio generation, and full text reasoning.
SK Hynix files $28B Nasdaq IPO as SKHY
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SK Hynix filed for a $28B Nasdaq IPO as SKHY on July 8, set to price July 9 and rank as the second-largest US share sale on record.