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onJuly 13, 2026

Mistral Releases Leanstral 1.5—119B Open-Source Model Hits 100% on miniF2F, Solves 587 of 672 Putnam Problems

Mistral’s new theorem prover found 5 unreported bugs across 57 repositories by proving code mathematically wrong—including an integer…

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Artur Markus

onJuly 11, 2026

Higgsfield in Talks for $300-500M at $5B Valuation—4× Jump in Six Months on $500M ARR

A 15-month-old AI video startup just quadrupled its valuation to $5B in six months. The revenue growth is even faster—$200M to $500M ARR in…

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Artur Markus

onJuly 10, 2026

OpenAI Launches GPT-Live on July 8—Voice Models Powered by GPT-5.5 Now Run ChatGPT Voice with Simultaneous Listen-and-Speak

OpenAI just shipped voice models that reason in audio rather than converting text to speech. GPT-Live-1 processes and generates voice…

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Artur Markus

onJuly 6, 2026

Claude Fable 5 Reclaims #1 Spot with 100/100 Quality Index—First Model to Top July 2026 Leaderboards After 19-Day Export Control Suspension

A perfect 100/100 quality score across 357 ranked models. That’s what Claude Fable 5 posted within 48 hours of coming back online after…

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Artur Markus

onJuly 5, 2026

OpenAI Launches Operator on January 23—ChatGPT Pro’s $200/Month Browser Agent Scores 38.1% on OSWorld, 58.1% on WebArena

OpenAI just shipped an AI that fails 62% of the time on desktop tasks, costs $200 per month, and still hands you the keyboard when it hits a…

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Artur Markus

onJuly 4, 2026

Kuaishou’s Kling AI Raises $2.8 Billion at $15 Billion Valuation—Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu Back AI Video Unit as ARR Surges from $240M to $500M in 3 Months

Tencent just invested $200 million in a direct competitor to its own Hunyuan video model. That single fact tells you everything about the…

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Artur Markus

onJuly 3, 2026

Together AI Raises $800 Million Series C at $8.3 Billion Valuation—Annual Bookings Hit $1.15 Billion as Enterprises Ditch Closed Models for Open-Source

Together AI just hit $1.15 billion in bookings without ever building its own foundation model. The $8.3B valuation proves something OpenAI and…

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Artur Markus

onJuly 2, 2026

GitLab Survey: 78% of Developers Code Faster with AI—But Software Delivery Hasn’t Accelerated

78% of developers write code faster with AI tools. Yet 79% say their organization’s software delivery speed hasn’t improved. The…

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Artur Markus

onJuly 1, 2026

Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro Hits 82.4% on GPQA Diamond—Beats OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 by 6.1 Points on Graduate-Level Science Reasoning

Google just seized the reasoning crown from OpenAI with a 6.1-point margin on graduate-level science problems. The company that spent 18…

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Artur Markus

onJune 26, 2026

Inception Labs Launches Mercury AI at 700+ Tokens/Second—Matches GPT-4.1 Nano Performance While Outpacing Commercial LLMs

A diffusion-based language model just hit 700+ tokens per second while matching GPT-4.1 Nano on benchmarks. The speed gap between diffusion…

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