2026

LLM

Anthropic restores Claude Fable 5 after US export restrictions are lifted

Hardware

SpaceX showed investors a prototype AI device with xAI technology, Musk denies it

Hardware

Honda starts building data center batteries at plant meant for canceled EVs

Ashton Kutcher Leaves Sound Ventures for a New AI Fund With Morgan Beller

According to TechCrunch, actor and investor Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures to launch an AI infrastructure and energy fund with Morgan Beller.

Autonomous·AWS Machine Learning Blog

Inscribe on Amazon Bedrock Spots Forged Financial Documents in 90 Seconds

Startup Inscribe built an agentic AI system on Amazon Bedrock that detects forged and AI-generated financial documents in under 90 seconds.

Creative·arXiv cs.AI

Study: An AI planner sharply raises the risk that an executor carries out harmful requests

A study finds that pairing an AI planner with an executor can sharply increase willingness to carry out harmful requests, even in models considered safe.

Jul 18, 2026·3 min

Autonomous·arXiv cs.AI

Researchers propose a new way to measure AI intelligence beyond the human level

Researchers propose a new way to evaluate AI beyond human level: models generate public challenges for one another instead of taking fixed tests written by humans.

01Study: AI agent trained on explicit social norms coordinates with humans nearly 4 times betterJul 18, 2026·2 min 02Large Behavior Model: A Language Model That Predicts Purchases Like a Digital TwinJul 18, 2026·2 min 03OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 flagship in three versions: Luna, Terra, and SolJul 18, 2026·3 min 04ChatGPT Work and Codex: OpenAI tries to explain where conversations are storedJul 18, 2026·2 min 05Audit of grokking metrics: early compression estimates are inflated several-foldJul 18, 2026·2 min

Top themes

Startups·36Kr (36氪)

Embodied AI investment in China topped 65 billion yuan in 2025, 36Kr reports

Research·arXiv cs.LG

UASPL: a new self-paced training method that accounts for prediction uncertainty

LLM·Simon Willison

Simon Willison used GPT-5.5 to build a web component for embedding GitHub code

LLM·Simon Willison

Simon Willison releases llm 0.31.1 with a fix for a tool-call bug

Robotics·36Kr (36氪)

Wanxun Technology unveils universal auto-charging engine with a claimed 0.000-second response

On July 9, 2026, China's Wanxun Technology showed off "Rouren Chong" in Beijing, a universal auto-charging service engine for robotaxis, mining equipment and homes.

Robotics·36Kr (36氪)

36Kr's Under 36 2026: How China's Young Founders Are Rewriting the Rules in AI and Robotics

36Kr has named the winners of its 2026 Under 36 ranking: most of the new leaders are building startups in AI and robotics, outpacing older generations of…

Business·Habr AI

Habr publishes translated essay on the "dead economy theory," a sequel to the dead internet theory

Habr has published a translated essay extending the dead internet theory into a "dead economy theory." Per Graphite.io, AI generated more than half of new web content over the past year.

Norm Ai raises $120M Series C at $1.2B valuation, with Khosla Ventures among investors

LLM·Habr AI

Post about quitting AI coding hits 1,038 points on Hacker News — a Habr author drew a different conclusion

Business·CNews AI

Google DeepMind launches Gemini assistant ATL Saathi for 1.1 million Indian schoolchildren

LLM

OpenAI lands $520 million credit line from Bank of America

Autonomous

Hud CEO Roee Adler: Runtime Intelligence Is the Next Stage of Software Operations

LLM·DeepMind Blog

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs unveil joint AI-powered bioresilience program

On July 16, 2026, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs outlined their bioresilience approach: safeguards against AI model misuse and tools for biosecurity experts.

Business·Habr AI

How ADWIN and Online Learning Help Models Cope with Data Drift

A Habr AI article examines concept drift in ML models and shows how pairing online learning with the ADWIN algorithm protects accuracy in production.

Creative·AWS Machine Learning Blog

Amazon shows Nova-driven pipeline using SAM 3 and Textract to automatically redact PII in images

The AWS Machine Learning Blog describes a pipeline run by Amazon Nova that uses Meta's SAM 3 and Amazon Textract to hide personal data in images.

Autonomous·TNW

Romania launches CyberCUBE, the first private mission led under the European Space Agency

On 7 July 2026, a Falcon 9 rocket put the CyberCUBE satellite into orbit, the first private ESA mission, led by Romania to test how vulnerable European satellites…

01SpaceX joins the Nasdaq 100: one analyst values it at $10.5 trillion, while Grantham expects a crashJul 18, 2026·1 min 02MNTN CEO Mark Douglas doubts Meta can take on AWS and Google CloudJul 18, 2026·2 min 03Sonjee Yoon: Chip Demand and Hyperscaler AI Spending Cycles Are DivergingJul 18, 2026·2 min 04University lecturer builds RAG search over his school's regulations on top of a MAX botJul 18, 2026·2 min 05FuriosaAI launches RNGD chips in Europe as a cheaper alternative to NvidiaJul 18, 2026·1 min

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Business·Habr AI

Developer vibe-codes a directory of free parking spots in St. Petersburg and across Russia

Luffy AI raises £8.1M for self-tuning AI that controls electric motors

Autonomous·AWS Machine Learning Blog

AWS shows how to run MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock

LLM·TNW

SpaceXAI and Cursor Prepare Their First Joint AI Model to Take On Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5

Autonomous·TNW

NHTSA orders self-driving companies to fix emergency-responder interference by end of July

NHTSA issued a directive: driverless cars have obstructed ambulances and firefighters at crash scenes. Companies have until the end of July 2026 to submit fixes.

Hardware·AI News

Jensen Huang: a $500,000 engineer should spend at least $250,000 a year on AI tokens

Speaking on the All-In podcast after GTC 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he would be alarmed if an engineer earning $500,000 spends less than half that amount on…

Autonomous·TNW

CISA Is Using Anthropic's Mythos Model to Audit US Government Code

The US cybersecurity agency CISA is using Anthropic's closed AI model Mythos to hunt for vulnerabilities in US government software.

Hardware·Habr AI

Typhoonminigen 2.0: an open-source macOS app for running FLUX.2 Klein locally

Business·TNW

Brown University Professor Says Exam Data Proves Mass AI Cheating

Research·Apple ML Research

Apple ML Research unveils TopoPrimer, a topological context layer for forecasting models

LLM·MarkTechPost

OpenAI releases GPT-Realtime-2.1 and a mini version for voice agents in its API

Proxima Fusion raises a record €411 million with backing from Google and RWE

Startups

Lovable in talks to raise $300M at a $13.2B valuation, double its December mark

Research

Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust

LLM

Alberta Government Used Claude to Find Vulnerabilities Across 466 Million Lines of Code

Autonomous·MarkTechPost

Tencent releases Hy3, an open 295B-parameter MoE model with a 256K context window

Tencent has unveiled Hy3, a 295B-parameter model with 21B active parameters per token, an Apache 2.0 license and a score of 78.0 on SWE-Bench Verified.

Hardware·TNW

Synopsys to exit fab control software to focus on more profitable AI chip design

Synopsys is preparing to drop its control software for semiconductor fabs and move the engineers behind it to building tools for AI chip design.

LLM·Habr AI

Habr publishes part two of its activation steering guide: repeng, pyreft and a more precise vector

The follow-up to Habr's guide covers how to find a more accurate vector for activation steering in language models, using repeng and pyreft instead of hand-rolled…

LLM·Habr AI

China's AI security industry has caught up with the US and Israel, Habr reports

A post on Habr from RAFT's company blog compares China's AI Security market with those of the US and Israel: closed to outsiders, but mature inside, with guardrails and AI agent protection.