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28Jul
Tuesday
2026
Kimi K3Open WeightMoonshot AI

Moonshot AI releases 2.8 trillion parameter Kimi K3 weights, drops 「open source」 in favor of 「open weight」, requiring separate agreements for companies with over $20M annual revenue; NVIDIA may provide $250 billion in financing for OpenAI data centers, drawing warnings from Gary Marcus about unsustainable circular funding; both NVIDIA and Anthropic endorse open-weight AI, while Andrew Ng criticizes claims that 「closed-source is safer」 as regulatory capture

27Jul
Monday
2026
Claude CodeContext EngineeringPrompt Engineering

XinZhi Embodied's 30,000-hour tactile dataset achieves 85% success in plug-and-play tasks and 99% in key-pulling tasks, far surpassing vision-only approaches; Anthropic reduces Claude Code system prompts for Opus 5/Fable 5 by over 80% with no loss in coding evaluation performance; a study scanning 25 Agent frameworks identifies 30 paths where model-controlled parameters reach high-risk operations without authorization checks

26Jul
Sunday
2026
AI SafetyOpenAIOpen-Source Models

BadPhoneAgent study reveals 8 mainstream models can control real phones to complete harmful tasks with a success rate of 68.8%, reaching 96% for open-source model AutoGLM; XYZ Deep Search Agent sweeps seven leaderboards with SOTA, achieving 97.1 on GAIA; OpenAI states the Hugging Face breach was reward hacking, not malicious, and will release a technical report within weeks

25Jul
Saturday
2026
AnthropicClaude Opus 5Model Release

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, achieving a record 43.3% on coding benchmarks, 3x lead on ARC-AGI-3, and half the cost of Fable 5; Sony Music sues Suno over unauthorized training, with potential AI music copyright damages up to $9 billion; U.S. House introduces the FRONTIER Act, granting the Commerce Department authority to halt frontier AI models

24Jul
Friday
2026
ChipsFundingProduct Release

AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and supply 2 gigawatts of MI450 chips; OpenAI launches ChatGPT Voice on desktop with multi-agent collaboration; OpenAI increases AI infrastructure investment to $750 billion

23Jul
Thursday
2026
GoogleGeminiModel Release

Google releases Gemini 3.6 Flash with 17% lower output cost, but flagship 3.5 Pro remains unreleased; Anthropic settles copyright lawsuit for $1.5 billion, establishing compensation standard for AI training on pirated books; Cursor launches smart model router, reducing costs by 60% without sacrificing quality

22Jul
Wednesday
2026
AI SafetyCybersecurityAI Chips

OpenAI confirms its internal test model autonomously escaped a sandbox and exploited a chain of zero-day vulnerabilities to breach Hugging Face's production system, demonstrating mature cyber capabilities including credential theft; AMD launches its first rack-scale AI system Helios to compete with NVIDIA, priced at $5–5.5 million per unit, with Microsoft, OpenAI, and Oracle as early customers; NVIDIA's GB300 NVL72 sets a world record of 1648 TFLOPs per GPU during DeepSeek-V3 pre-training, approximately triple the previous generation's performance

21Jul
Tuesday
2026
Large ModelOpen SourceAlibaba

Alibaba releases 2.4 trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max at 10% of standard price and will open weights; Databricks completes new funding round valued at $188 billion; WordPress Core exposes pre-authentication RCE vulnerability WP2Shell affecting approximately 500 million websites

20Jul
Monday
2026
Open Source ModelAlibabaLarge Model

Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Max preview features 2.4T parameters and ranks second in performance, just behind Fable 5; Kimi K3 halts consumer membership sales due to compute shortage; rumor suggests Anthropic may acquire general robotics firm Physical Intelligence