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Thursday, July 16, 2026

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★ Must ReadMicrosoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic

Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.

TechCrunch AI· Lucas Ropek· 2 min· 6d agoSource →

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Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex

OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app.

TechCrunch AI · 2 min

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AI Isn’t Smarter Than a Baby—Yet

Babies are tremendous learning machines, and key advances for AI may soon be found in the architecture of their little brains.

WIRED AI · 2 min

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Monthly Roundup #44: July 2026

It’s a quiet week so let’s do the monthly right on schedule.

Zvi Mowshowitz · 2 min

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Briar is in maintenance mode

Trending on Hacker News with 151 points and 96 comments.

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“Breaking: Demis Hassabis endorses preflight safety testing for AI”

— Gary Marcus

Gary Marcus — Breaking: Demis Hassabis endorses preflight safety testing f...

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“Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]”

— Hacker News

Trending on Hacker News with 99 points and 44 comments.

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★ Must Read5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026

At this year's AIE World’s Fair, AI engineering entered a new phase: building systems around agents, rather than just building with agents.

Latent Space· Richard MacManus· 3 min· 7d agoSource →

★ Must Read[AINews] Codex usage up >10x in 6 months to 7M users, +1M in the past ~day; did Codex overtake Claude Code??

a quiet day lets us fact check some numbers against the sound of silence of Claude Code reporting...

Latent Space· 3 min· 8d agoSource →

DeFi: Should prediction markets get $40B valuations?

Is it sports betting or a new financial market?

Lex Fridman· Laurence Smith· 3 min· 7d agoSource →

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Frontier AI Software Engineering Seminar #7 ~ Richard Hsu, Nuro + previous recordings

Join me this Thursday to learn from Richard Hsu at Nuro.

AI by Hand· Prof. Tom Yeh· 2 min· 8d agoSource →

The Biggest Bet of My Career

After six years of teaching AI, we’re building something new

Louis Bouchard· Louis-François Bouchard· 2 min· 7d agoSource →

Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches

HiveLegacy is a "powerful primitive" that's likely capable of other nefarious actions.

Ars Technica AI· Dan Goodin · 2 min· 6d agoSource →

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[AINews] not much happened today

a continuation: Codex adding 1M users a day now.

Latent Space· 3 min· 7d agolong readSource →

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“Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic”

— Lucas Ropek, TechCrunch AI