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Issue #154

Today in AI — Jul 20, 2026

Anthropic's landmark copyright settlement clears its final hurdle, Apple escalates its legal fight with OpenAI over hardware plans, and the industry keeps arguing about whether Moonshot's Kimi is a real threat to the frontier labs.

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Issue #153

Today in AI — Jul 16, 2026

Apple's AI finally clears Chinese regulators by partnering with Alibaba, Google lets you talk to your other apps from inside AI Mode, and two more startups cross unicorn status.

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Issue #152

Today in AI — Jul 15, 2026

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab ships its first model and it's open-weight, OpenAI pairs its coding agent with a $230 keyboard, and two coding-agent startups raise big rounds on opposite sides of the funding stage.

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Issue #151

Today in AI — Jul 14, 2026

Satya Nadella has a blunt warning for companies over-indexing on AI, Google faces yet another publisher lawsuit, and the case that open models — not frontier ones — are where the real competition is happening keeps getting stronger.

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Issue #150

Today in AI — Jul 9, 2026

OpenAI ships its three-tier GPT-5.6 lineup, the New York Times escalates its copyright fight with a new evidence claim, and Anthropic adds a feature that quietly nudges you to use Claude more.

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Issue #149

Today in AI — Jul 7, 2026

Meta ships a new AI image generator straight into Instagram and WhatsApp, OpenAI's voice models get a lot more natural, and a new scenario analysis lays out who actually wins as AI infrastructure gets more expensive.

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