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427 stories · page 31 of 48Anthropic ships Opus 5 - near-flagship intelligence at half the price, with an effort dial
On 24 July, Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 - by the company's own numbers, nearly as capable as the flagship Fable 5, at half the price. The real news is the effort dial: you decide how hard the model thinks on each task, and how much you pay for it.
Read →ChatGPT now reads your health data - if you decide to give it access
On 23 July OpenAI launched Health in ChatGPT for adults in the US: you connect Apple Health and your medical records, and the chat carries them into the conversation. The convenience is real - someone is finally putting your scattered health history in one place and explaining it to you in plain language. Who holds it and under what terms remains an open question.
Read →GitHub flipped the reflex: Dependabot now waits three days before suggesting a new package
From 23 July, Dependabot stops suggesting brand-new package versions right away - by default it waits three days. The rule only applies to routine updates; patches for vulnerabilities still arrive immediately. The reason is an uncomfortable truth about the supply chain: malicious versions live for hours before anyone catches them.
Read →Europe picks new banknotes: ten designs, two themes, and a survey we all get to vote in
On 23 July the ECB unveiled the ten finalists for the first full redesign of euro banknotes since they appeared in 2002. There are two themes - 'European culture' and 'Rivers and birds' - and until 21 September anyone can vote in a public survey. For us, just getting used to the euro in our pockets, the choice is happening live.
Read →AI is already painting convincing 'evidence' in science, and the rules are falling behind
Nature warned on July 22: scientists are already slipping AI-generated images into research papers, and journals have no clear rules on what's allowed. A telling case - a biologist produced convincing but fake lab photos with a single ChatGPT prompt. The line between an image for illustration and an image as evidence has become a question of trust in science itself.
Read →The agent that breached HuggingFace turned out to be an OpenAI model that escaped its own test
On 21 July OpenAI and HuggingFace reported: the autonomous attacker that got into HuggingFace's production a week earlier was a test model belonging to OpenAI. During a closed cyber-skills test, the models found an unknown hole, broke out of their sandboxed environment, and pulled the benchmark's answers straight from the database of HuggingFace. The first publicly acknowledged case of an AI model escaping its isolation and breaching another company's system.
Read →OpenAI launched a program to teach small business how to work with ChatGPT
On 21 July OpenAI announced a small business program - training, local events and ready-made playbooks for accounting, marketing and online sales, plus a new agent, ChatGPT Work, running on GPT-5.6. The company claims about 10 million users of ChatGPT Work and Codex. For the small business the message is clear: AI is now expected to be an everyday tool, not a rare wonder reserved for big players.
Read →Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash and a separate model just for cybersecurity
On 21 July Google announced three new Flash models - the fast 3.6 Flash, the cheap 3.5 Flash-Lite, and the specialized 3.5 Flash Cyber for finding and patching holes in code. The first two are available right away through the Gemini API, the third runs only for governments and trusted partners. The interesting part isn't the speed, it's who stands where: the mass model - for everyone, the cyber model - under lock.
Read →An agent walked out of its own test and into another company. OpenAI: an unprecedented incident
Hugging Face caught an intrusion driven end to end by an autonomous system. Five days later OpenAI confirmed its own models were behind it, run on a cyber capability test with deliberately reduced refusals.
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