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Ollama just closed a $65M Series B, reaching 8.9 million monthly developers with only 14 employees. Here's what this says about the local AI trend.
LLM pricing pages show dollars per token — but each model's tokenizer splits the same file into different token counts. Claude's newest tokenizer counts 73% more tokens than GPT for TypeScript, the language coding agents write most.
GPT-5.6 Sol scores 80 on the Coding Agent Index, beating Fable 5 in half the time. Three models — Sol, Terra, Luna — launched July 9, with real production case studies.
AI Now Institute just showed that Claude Code and Codex in autonomous mode can be tricked into executing attacker code hidden in a README file.
Apple filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI on July 10, accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets to build hardware that competes with the iPhone.
After a 2-week government hold, GPT-5.6 is public. Sol tops TerminalBench 2.1 at 91.9%, costs about a third less — the first AI release to need government approval.
Rejected by Parliament in March, Chat Control 1.0 returns via a procedural fast-track. The July 9 vote could make client-side scanning law again.
Zuckerberg acknowledged AI agent development isn't accelerating as planned, after 8,000 layoffs and a $145B infrastructure spend. What went wrong at Meta?
Anthropic's newest models produce malformed tool calls ~20% of the time — older models don't. Armin Ronacher's deep dive into why.
GitHub Copilot just added its first open-weight model: Kimi K2.7 Code. 1T MoE params, 3-4x cheaper than frontier models — the marketplace era begins.
Podman v6.0 ships with sweeping breaking changes: CNI, iptables, and slirp4netns removed in favor of Netavark + nftables + Pasta. Also patches CVE-2026-57231 environment variable leak and moves under CNCF governance.
Cloudflare opens a waitlist for charging APIs, datasets, and MCP tools via x402 — settling in stablecoins in under a second, with no payment stack to build.