Sunday, July 12, 2026

OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI may be able to put pressure on Anthropic by emphasizing cost efficiency, as business customers increasingly scrutinize AI spending (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI may be able to put pressure on Anthropic by emphasizing cost efficiency, as business customers increasingly scrutinize AI spending  —  Three prominent artificial intelligence developers released new models over the past week.  They all promise to be more advanced …



Anthropic says it is extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19 (The Economic Times)

The Economic Times:
Anthropic says it is extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19  —  In a post on X, the company said, “We're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19.”



Sources: Apple is already taping out M7 with major NPU upgrades, and plans M7 Ultra with 1.5TB RAM, and M8, for 2028; new Pencils are coming with a new iPad Pro (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is already taping out M7 with major NPU upgrades, and plans M7 Ultra with 1.5TB RAM, and M8, for 2028; new Pencils are coming with a new iPad Pro  —  Also: New Apple Pencils are coming.  —  Apple's new Mac chip road map represents the company's latest move to rebuild …



Users of AI coding tools are flooding open-source projects with low-quality contributions, overwhelming maintainers and potentially eroding community engagement (Sam Learner/Financial Times)

Sam Learner / Financial Times:
Users of AI coding tools are flooding open-source projects with low-quality contributions, overwhelming maintainers and potentially eroding community engagement  —  Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web's unsung human caretakers.  If you are reading the digital version …



Saturday, July 11, 2026

Apple's lawsuit could sidetrack OpenAI's hardware aspirations for years, or possibly forever, as the startup gets into yet another controversy and messy divorce (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Apple's lawsuit could sidetrack OpenAI's hardware aspirations for years, or possibly forever, as the startup gets into yet another controversy and messy divorce  —  If their lawsuit is successful, that ChatGPT device may be no more...  We all know the old saying “don't poke the bear.”



Apple's OpenAI lawsuit follows months of simmering tensions and highlights OpenAI's hardware chief Tang Tan's strained relationship with former boss John Ternus (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple's OpenAI lawsuit follows months of simmering tensions and highlights OpenAI's hardware chief Tang Tan's strained relationship with former boss John Ternus  —  When iPhone engineer Chang Liu quit for a job at OpenAI's nascent hardware division, Apple Inc. says he left with more than just years of experience.



Filing: Google urged the European Commission not to target DNS resolvers, VPNs, or IPs to fight piracy, calling the measures ineffective and easily circumvented (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
Filing: Google urged the European Commission not to target DNS resolvers, VPNs, or IPs to fight piracy, calling the measures ineffective and easily circumvented  —  Google has told the European Commission that pirate site blocking causes “significant harm” and should not target DNS resolvers, VPNs or shared IPs.



US software development job postings on Indeed have grown by ~15% since the launch of Claude Code in February 2025, while overall job postings fell by 7% (Guillermo Gallacher/Indeed Hiring Lab)

Guillermo Gallacher / Indeed Hiring Lab:
US software development job postings on Indeed have grown by ~15% since the launch of Claude Code in February 2025, while overall job postings fell by 7%  —  Agentic AI may be flipping the relationship between AI exposure and job posting growth.  —  Key points:



How a Denmark-based research team is using quantum computers to accelerate AI protein discovery, showing a near-term commercial application for the quantum tech (Isabella Ward/Wired)

Isabella Ward / Wired : How a Denmark-based research team is using quantum computers to accelerate AI protein discovery, showing a near-t...