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Last updated: 2026-07-20

TechCrunch AI
#1 · TechCrunch AI

Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?

On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public. TechCrunch covers artificial intelligence startups, model releases, and the broader AI industry. Topic: Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?.

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AI News
#2 · AI News

Kimi K3 open-weight model: China’s biggest AI is a bet on memory, not compute

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 open-weight model has been read almost entirely through its parameter count since it launched on July 16. At 2.8 trillion parameters, it is the largest open-weight model released to date. Model sizes are usually grouped into rough brackets, and 2.8 trillion rounds into what the industry calls the 3T class. A tier no openly available model had entered before. Moonshot’s flagship jumps from just over 1T to 2.8T in a single release, clearing DeepSeek’s 1.6T V4 Pro by a wide margin. The parameter count is the part of K3 that has drawn the most attention — and explains the least about how it runs. Source: Kimi The natural conclusion is that Moonshot has engineered its way around US compute restrictions. The company’s own technical blog suggests something more specific: K3...

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Wired AI
#3 · Wired AI

Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You

Plus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize it’d been hacked, a breach exposes an AI music generator’s scraping ways, and more. Wired AI covers the intersection of artificial intelligence research, policy, and product launches worldwide. Topic: Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You.

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Ars Technica
#4 · Ars Technica

Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness

There are a lot of AI coding applications out there, and as impressive as large language models and the agents they enable have become, many of the most recent developments in AI-assisted development have been in the software that manages those models, not just the models themselves. Earlier this summer, I spoke with the head of product for Claude Code, Anthropic's Cat Wu, about that company's approach to building that software. Read full article Comments

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Sources: OpenAI Blog · Google DeepMind Blog · MIT Technology Review · Stanford HAI