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OpenAI is reportedly developing a new model family, Astra, for tasks lasting hours to days, coordinating multiple agents. Sam Altman demonstrated it to politicians in Washington, and the model is being tested as the first case under the new US regulatory framework.
DeepSeek has released V4 Flash 0731 with a score of 50 points in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, one point below GPT-5.6 Luna, but at a price about 60 % lower. The weights are under the MIT license on Hugging Face, with a price of 0.14 $/0.27 $ per million tokens.
Simon Willison released the open-source tool smevals for running and grading small evaluation suites across models. An evaluation takes the form of YAML files in a directory, and results can be viewed through a web interface or exported to static HTML.
Google launched a feature in the Google Earth app that allows users to generate images and place them on maps. It rolled the feature back after one day over concerns about misinformation and misuse
Google open-sourced Glanceboard, an application by an employee named Raph. The application connects Google Calendar and the weather, uses the Nano Banana model to generate illustrations of children dressed for the forecast, and displays them on a local e-ink display without the cloud.
According to Wired, employees and co-founders of the Chinese AI companies Moonshot, DeepSeek, Minimax and Z.ai are increasingly discussing model development on the platform X because, in their view, Chinese networks such as Zhihu do not support high-quality technical discussion.
Snapchat announced that its Spotlight algorithm will not recommend videos created entirely by AI. Creators can continue using AI tools to edit content. The measure is part of a trend among social networks restricting low-quality AI content — LinkedIn added ‘AI slop’ reporting, while YouTube tightened…
OpenAI, according to its own statement, stopped an operation in Cambodia that used ChatGPT for investment, dating and gambling scams and to impersonate other people.
AI Radar calculated costs for the same three scenarios before and after the change, and for comparable models from Anthropic, Google and xAI. You can recalculate the costs based on your own usage volume.
OpenAI reduced the prices of two GPT-5.6 models: Luna by 80% (now $0.20 per million input tokens), Terra by 20% (now $2 per million input tokens). The flagship Sol remains unchanged. The changes took effect on 30 July.
Orchid launched an advertisement for an AI agent that, in the story, plans a forgotten anniversary on behalf of an inattentive boyfriend. Critics on social media and a therapist warn that the solution encourages immaturity and so-called triangulation of communication through AI instead of addressing real problems in the relationship.
Startup Smallest.ai raised 13 million dollars in Series A funding (led by Seligman Ventures) to develop a small, latency-free voice model for real-time customer support, bringing its total funding to over 21 million dollars.
On 28 July, ISBNdb removed an offer to sell printed books for AI training from its website, nine days after a report by 404 Media. According to the company, it was merely a “test of market interest” – it had never bought or sold any books.
The article reads the film Forbidden Planet (1956) as a warning for the AI age. The alien civilization Krell destroyed itself with a machine that translates thoughts directly into reality. The author draws parallels with the energy demands of data centers and the growth of AI.
From 30 July, OpenAI reduced the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80 % (to 0.20 $/1.20 $ per million tokens) and Terra by 20 %. According to the company, the cuts stem from savings achieved by optimizing infrastructure with Sol; commentators point to pressure from low-cost competitors.
Reddit increased second-quarter revenue by 61 % to 805 million dollars and profit by 183 % to 253 million, yet shares fell by more than 10 % after the results were released due to concerns about the impact of AI summaries in search on traffic.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, said on a call with investors that the company is considering expanding iCloud Plus plans for users with higher usage of Apple Intelligence and Siri AI. No specific plan or price has been announced yet.
Daniela Rus, head of CSAIL at MIT, received the Bavarian Minister-President's High-Tech Prize in July 2026 for contributions to robotics, soft robotics and artificial intelligence. Her work includes autonomous systems and liquid neural networks, to which her former colleagues contributed at the Liquid AI spin-out.
US judge Rita Lin said that the US government had not provided evidence to support designating the company Anthropic as a security risk and banning its technologies in the federal government. The dispute concerns the refusal by Anthropic to deploy AI for surveillance and lethal decision-making for the Department of Defense.
Startup Friend launched a new model of its AI pendant with a voice feature. The new version allows users to talk to the pendant and costs twice the original price. The pendant provides AI companionship through text and voice messages.
GitHub Models was retired on 30 July 2026. The service offered a playground, a model catalog, an inference API and BYOK. It is no longer available to anyone, including customers who were actively using it. Alternatives: Microsoft Foundry or GitHub Copilot.
Andrew Ho, who left OpenAI after eight months, launched a startup to create specialized training data for bioinformatics and laboratory work. In his view, targeted data collection will require over 100 billion dollars because scaling models alone will not solve the generalization problem.
GitHub Copilot app now supports stacked sessions and stacked pull requests—chains of successive tasks and PRs within a repository. GitHub demonstrated the feature using the example of modernizing a ten-year-old app with Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5.
AWS described a solution for inference meta-monitoring of models on Amazon SageMaker AI – a layer above production ML pipelines that uses Amazon Quick, Athena, MLflow and Evidently AI to track prediction quality and detect data drift.
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