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WedJul 15, 2026
Issue #145

OpenAI's screenless speaker 🔊, context bombs trap AI attackers 💣, Google's pentesting skills 🐛

New York freezes 50MW data centres. China's human-like AI law lands. Meta let AI pick who to cut.

38 min19 stories
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TueJul 14, 2026
Issue #144

Apple ships the rebuilt Siri in iOS 27 🤖, Claude's tokenizer bills 30% more 💰, react-doctor catches your agent's bad React 🧑‍💻

Apple's SpeechAnalyzer beats Whisper, WebMCP kills doc-scraping, Meta's datacentre balloons to $50B

36 min18 stories
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MonJul 13, 2026
Issue #143

Apple sues OpenAI for IP theft ⚖️, Satya: you pay for AI twice 💰, Claude Code's 33k-token tax 🧑‍💻

Tencent grabs Manus back from Meta. Apple's chips go all-in on AI. geohot vs the 2040 crowd.

46 min23 stories
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FriJul 10, 2026
Issue #142

OpenAI's Sol post-trained Luna 🤖, the AI-2027 crew maps a good 2040 🔮, Meta undercuts GPT and Claude 75% 💰

Apple eyes 27B models on your iPhone, STT models tie on accuracy, an agent auto-approves 1-in-3 PostHog PRs

34 min17 stories
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ThuJul 9, 2026
Issue #141

GPT-Live goes full-duplex 🔊, Bun rewritten in Rust by Claude 🧑‍💻, OpenAI: SWE-Bench is 30% broken 🧑‍💻

SF home sellers want frontier lab stock. Meta's always-on glasses. Grok 4.5 lands Opus-class.

38 min19 stories
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WedJul 8, 2026
Issue #140

GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna land Thursday 🤖, the real AI fear is overwork 💼, the one-token doom-loop fix 🧑‍💻

Meta's Muse hits image and video. DeepSeek designs its own chip. Discord's AI banned 8k over blank PNGs.

40 min20 stories
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