Jul 24, 2026
Anthropic just shipped Opus 5, its fourth model in under two months. Near-frontier intelligence at $5 and $25 per million, unchanged from Opus 4.8, and it is already the default on Max.
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BONUS: White House says Moonshot distilled Anthropic's Fable to build Kimi K3, and Treasury is threatening sanctions. The problem: the timeline only allows 15 days.
Jul 23, 2026
PLUS: GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model chained zero-days, broke out of their test environment, and stole benchmark answers from Hugging Face production. No human directed any of it.
Jul 21, 2026
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PLUS: Google shipped three new Gemini models today: Flash, Flash-Lite, and a gated Cyber model. But still no 3.5 Pro, a third missed deadline, and Google is now out of the top 5 AI labs.
Jul 20, 2026
China's labs won't stop. Qwen 3.8 previewed as "second only to Fable 5," DeepSeek V4 goes stable Friday, and GLM 5.5 is already leaking for August. Three models, one week.
Jul 17, 2026
China shipped the biggest open model ever this week, Xi is personally hosting the global AI-governance stage today, and Google's flagship keeps missing its deadline. Here are the receipts, both ways.
