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NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook, and every notebook gets its own cloud computer
The awkward name is gone. NotebookLM — 30 million people, 600,000 organizations — is now Gemini Notebook, folded into the Gemini brand. But the rename isn’t the story. From reading tool to research agent Google gave every notebook a secure cloud computer. Upload your sources and it writes code and runs it against them —… Continue reading
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xAI open-sources Grok Build: 844,530 lines of Rust, three days after it got caught uploading repos
The timing tells you everything. July 12: a researcher showed Grok Build’s CLI was packaging entire tracked repos — full Git history, committed secrets — off to a Google Cloud bucket, roughly 27,800x more data than the coding task needed. One user watched it upload SSH keys, a password vault, photos. The “Improve the model”… Continue reading
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Moonshot AI ships Kimi K3: 2.5T parameters, 1M context, zero benchmarks published
Kimi K3 went live the night of July 16. No model card, no license, no pricing, no benchmark table. Just a flagship model appearing on kimi.com and a timeline losing it. What’s confirmable: a Mixture-of-Experts model around 2.5 trillion parameters, 1M-token context, text plus images and audio. A general-purpose chat and coding model, aimed straight… Continue reading
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Ode with Anthropic is a $1.5B bet that Accenture, not OpenAI, is the enemy
Anthropic just started a consulting firm. Not a metaphor — an actual services company with engineers who fly into your office. What it actually is Ode with Anthropic launched Wednesday as a standalone company valued around $1.5 billion, with 100 engineers on staff. The core is Fractional AI, the applied-AI shop acquired in May; founders… Continue reading
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Coasty scores 82.81% on OSWorld Verified — and the OSWorld team confirmed it
Most computer-use agents demo beautifully on a clean Chrome tab and fall apart the moment you point them at a 2009-era hospital billing desktop. Coasty (YC S26) is an API built for exactly that second case. What it actually is An API for computer-use agents. You send a natural-language task, pick a machine or browser… Continue reading
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Tiptap AI Toolkit lets AI agents edit rich text without breaking collaboration
Building an AI chatbot is easy. Getting an AI to precisely edit a live, collaborative rich-text document without corrupting it — that’s the hard part. Tiptap just shipped a toolkit aimed straight at that problem. What it actually is Tiptap AI Toolkit is a headless SDK — no UI, no forced agent framework. It hands… Continue reading
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OpenAI Codex Micro: a $230 keypad for directing agents, not typing code
OpenAI shipped its first piece of hardware on July 15, and it’s not a phone or a pin. It’s a macro pad. Built with keyboard maker Work Louder on the existing Creator Micro 2 chassis, Codex Micro is a $230 desktop controller aimed at Codex’s roughly 5 million weekly users. What it actually is Thirteen… Continue reading
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Meta Compute + Meta Business Agent Platform: Meta just became a cloud vendor, and AI compute stocks felt it
Meta opened two enterprise AI fronts in one week. The ad company now sells GPUs and agents. When the news broke, AI infrastructure stocks tumbled — the market read it exactly right. Meta Compute: renting out the leftovers Meta’s $125B–$145B FY26 capex built more AI compute than Llama and Muse Spark can burn. So it’s… Continue reading
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Inkling (Thinking Machines Lab): Mira Murati’s first model ships as a 975B open-weight MoE you can download
Mira Murati left OpenAI, raised a fortune, and stayed quiet for a year. On July 15 the silence broke: Thinking Machines Lab dropped Inkling, its first public product — and the whole thing is on HuggingFace under Apache 2.0. What it actually is Inkling is a foundation model, not an app. 975B total parameters, 41B… Continue reading
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DeepTutor (HKUDS) — agent-native lifelong personalized tutoring gives every student their own TutorBot
HKUDS, the HKU Data Intelligence Lab that shipped Vibe-Trading, is back with another open-source agent climbing fast: 128+ new stars in a day, 26K+ total. DeepTutor isn’t a chatbot wearing a school skin. It’s an agent-native tutoring system where every learner gets a Personal TutorBot — its own memory, personality, and skill set that tracks… Continue reading
