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Monday, July 20, 2026

18 stories · 5 min read

★ Must ReadCan an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?

On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.

TechCrunch AI· Anthony Ha· 2 min· yesterdaySource →

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AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy

Trending on Hacker News with 288 points and 161 comments.

Hacker News · 1 min

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Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

Trending on Hacker News with 405 points and 566 comments.

Hacker News · 1 min

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Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand

Trending on Hacker News with 234 points and 97 comments.

Hacker News · 1 min

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Demis Hassabis on the New Coming Age

Google CEO Demis Hassabis offered us a first rate second rate essay, A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age. I’ll go over that essay and various responses to it in Part 1.

Zvi Mowshowitz · 2 min

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What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit

Jensen Huang left Tokyo with deals spanning Japan's entire tech ecosystem.

TechCrunch AI · 2 min

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03THE TENSION2▸

PERSPECTIVE A

“AI #177 Part 2: Wish You Were Here”

— Zvi Mowshowitz

As usual, part 2 of the weekly deals with speculative, regulatory, political and alignment questions.

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PERSPECTIVE B

“Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all”

— TechCrunch AI

Current AI, a non-profit building AI that leaves no one culture behind, has made remarkable progress across devices, AI chat and more.

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★ Must ReadOpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k

Trending on Hacker News with 327 points and 155 comments.

Hacker News· 1 min· 2d agoSource →

Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs

How LLMs Learn Low-, Medium-, and High-Effort Reasoning Modes

Ahead of AI· Sebastian Raschka, PhD· 3 min· 3d agoSource →

פרפרי תעתוע - מה קורה כשסוכנים חולמים

איך מיישמים חלימה של סוכנים, ו-3 שאלות שחייבים לשאול לפני שנותנים להם לחלום

AI THINKERS· Galit Galperin· 3 min· 2d agoSource →

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★ Must ReadKimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

Plus reverse-engineering Grok Build, Doom in SQLite, and how Codex generates pets

Simon Willison· 2 min· 3d agoSource →

Inkling, Gemma 4 Updates, and 1-Bit Qwen3.6

Kaitchup — Inkling, Gemma 4 Updates, and 1-Bit Qwen3.

Kaitchup· Benjamin Marie· 2 min· 3d agoSource →

Connect Your Tools to AI 🔗

How and why to link AI to your favorite tools

Wonder Tools· Jeremy Caplan· 2 min· 2d agoSource →

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[AINews] not much happened today

Latent Space — [AINews] not much happened today

Latent Space· Latent.Space· 3 min· 3d agolong readSource →

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“Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?”

— Anthony Ha, TechCrunch AI