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Anthropic's new Bay Area wet lab says Claude autonomously spotted a previously uncharacterized DNA-repeat enzyme system in bacteriophages, a find CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang called intriguing.

Qwen-Image-2.1 unifies text-to-image generation and editing with native RGBA transparency, tops open-weight rivals on Qwen's own benchmark, but trails closed leaders.

Microsoft AI's new speech-recognition model prices audio transcription at $0.10 per hour, undercutting OpenAI, Google, and ElevenLabs on price and speed.

GitHub is deprecating six Copilot AI models and reenabling Business and Enterprise sign-ups for credit-card and PayPal payers, both effective September 1, 2026.

Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash posts sharp coding and web-dev benchmark gains at half its predecessor's launch price, and lands in GitHub Copilot immediately.

Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub Copilot for agentic coding, days after SpaceXAI positioned it near GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cyber defense service into two tiers and released GPT-5.6-Cyber, a purpose-trained model for vetted vulnerability researchers.

OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna prices 80% and Terra prices 20%, saying the model itself helped rewrite production code to lower serving costs.

Thinking Machines Lab shipped its first model, Inkling, an open-weight 975-billion-parameter system that tops US open-weight benchmarks but still trails China's leading models.

Google's flagship AI model missed its promised June rollout after coding performance fell short internally, and Alphabet shares dropped 4.4% on the report, erasing about $200 billion in market value.

OpenAI's new full-duplex voice models listen and speak at once and hand complex queries to GPT-5.5, replacing Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT.

OpenAI moved its GPT-5.6 model family to general availability on July 9, after federal reviewers cleared the release that had restricted Sol, Terra, and Luna to trusted partners.