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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, SWE-bench coding score of 80.5% fully surpasses GPT-5.4; TSMC Q1 net profit rises 58%, raises full-year revenue growth outlook to over 30%; OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind to enter drug discovery, with Amgen and Moderna as first users
Google launches native Gemini Mac app and releases Flash TTS speech model supporting 70+ languages; Baidu open-sources 8B parameter ERNIE-Image text-to-image model, topping open-source rankings on GenEval; Snap lays off 1,000 employees, explicitly citing AI-driven efficiency gains to save $500 million annually
NVIDIA releases open-source quantum AI model Ising, boosting decoding speed by 2.5x and accuracy by 3x; AWS launches Bio Discovery drug development platform, reducing antibody design time from one year to weeks; Microsoft launches self-developed image model MAI-Image-2-Efficient, cutting costs by 41% and accelerating shift away from OpenAI dependence
Stanford's 2026 AI Index shows global AI adoption surpassing 50% for the first time, with U.S.-China model performance gaps nearly closed; Harvey raises $200 million at an $11 billion valuation, hosting over 25,000 legal AI agents; global AI compute shortage intensifies, with NVIDIA's latest chip spot prices rising nearly 50% in weeks
MiniMax open-sources M2.7 model with SWE-Pro score of 56.22% and compatibility with Huawei Ascend chips; SoftBank partners with NEC and seven other Japanese firms to establish a national AI foundation model company backed by 1 trillion yen in government funding; Mistral secures $830 million to build a Paris data center, targeting 200MW of compute capacity by 2027
Vidu AI secures nearly 2 billion RMB Series B funding led by Alibaba Cloud, valued at 12 billion RMB; Morgan Stanley report shows global AI token usage surged 250% in Q1, compute demand systematically outpacing supply; Cisco acquires Galileo and Astrix Security to build a three-layer AI agent security architecture
Five departments release AI human-like interaction management measures effective July 15, banning virtual intimate relationship services for minors; US Treasury and Federal Reserve convene Wall Street CEOs to address Anthropic Mythos cybersecurity threat, where model's vulnerability exploitation success rate jumps from 0.9% to 72.4%; Qwen 3.5-Omni full-modal model sets 215 SOTA records, supporting 256K token context and voice cloning in 113 languages
Meta signs $21 billion AI compute deal with CoreWeave, cumulative contract value reaches $35 billion; open-source video model HappyHorse-1.0 tops global blind evaluation leaderboard, 15B parameters outperform ByteDance's Seedance 2.0; Musk overhauls xAI engineering team, appoints SpaceX Starlink executive as president
Meta releases closed-source model Muse Spark, marking a strategic shift from its Llama open-source approach; Anthropic's Claude Mythos discovers thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities, leading to restricted access and the launch of Project Glasswing with over 40 partner companies for defensive collaboration; Safetensors joins the PyTorch Foundation, becoming the industry standard for model weight storage