Anthropic Extends Fable 5 Access Again as OpenAI Lifts Limits
Anthropic extended free Claude Fable 5 access to July 19, its second extension in a week, as OpenAI removed usage caps and made GPT-5.6 Sol cheaper to run.
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Tencent Leads Bid to Unwind Meta’s $2 Billion Manus Deal
Tencent is in talks to become Manus's largest shareholder as investors race to reverse Meta's $2 billion purchase of the AI agent startup, after Beijing ordered the deal undone.
Grok 4.5 Ties for Top Spot on a Coding Comprehension Benchmark
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 tied GPT-5.6 Sol for first on the SWE-Atlas-QnA coding benchmark, a narrow win that highlights the model's real edge: efficiency and low cost.
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Anthropic Billing Tried to Charge a Free User $16.6 Million
A South Korean developer says Anthropic's billing system tried to charge him $16.6 million despite being on the free plan with zero API usage, one of several billing complaints.
Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging Theft of Hardware Trade Secrets
Apple sued OpenAI for trade secret theft, alleging former employees now at OpenAI stole confidential hardware information to build its first AI device. OpenAI denies it.
SK Hynix Raises $26.5 Billion in Largest Foreign US Listing
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Olivia Grant
SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in its Nasdaq debut, the largest US listing ever by a foreign company, as investors rushed to buy into the AI memory chip boom.
OpenAI Shuts Down Its Atlas Browser Less Than a Year In
OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone AI browser, on August 9, folding its agentic browsing into the new ChatGPT desktop app just nine months after launch.
Anthropic Adds Reflect, a Dashboard for How You Use Claude
Anthropic launched Reflect, a beta dashboard that shows users how they use Claude and nudges them toward healthier habits, a rare feature that can encourage using the product less.
SpaceXAI Launches Grok 4.5, a Cheaper Coding Model Built With Cursor
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a coding and agentic model trained jointly with Cursor that undercuts rivals on price and token use, though it trails Fable 5 on benchmarks.
OpenAI Launches GPT-Live, a Voice AI That Listens While It Talks
OpenAI released GPT-Live, full-duplex voice models that listen and speak at once and hand hard questions to GPT-5.5, replacing ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode globally.
Meta to Build Its First Canadian Data Center in Alberta
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Olivia Grant
Meta will build its first Canadian data center, a 1-gigawatt AI facility in Alberta costing about C$13 billion, powered largely by a dedicated natural gas plant.
OpenAI to Launch GPT-5.6 Publicly After Government Review
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Maria Konash
OpenAI will release its GPT-5.6 models, Sol, Terra and Luna, to the public on July 9 after clearing US government review far faster than the 30-day window the rules envisioned.
Meta Launches Muse Image AI Amid Instagram Privacy Backlash
Meta released Muse Image, a free AI image generator, but a feature that lets users turn any public Instagram user's photos into AI images, opt-out by default, has sparked backlash.