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76 stories · page 7 of 9ChatGPT 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 →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 →On the RTEB leaderboard, NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Embed takes first place for agentic search
NVIDIA released a new family of semantic-search models and announced that its largest one leads the rankings on RTEB. The numbers are the company's own, but there's a real part behind them: the small model does almost the same job at a much lower cost, and that's exactly what matters for our projects.
Read →OpenAI launches an automated attacker that hardens its models
OpenAI unveiled GPT-Red - an internal tool that automatically attacks its own models (red-teaming) and feeds what it learns back into their training. Per the company, the new version achieves noticeably fewer breaches under prompt injection than its predecessor from months ago.
Read →Thinking Machines released Inkling - an open model they don't even market as the strongest
Mira Murati's lab unveiled its first open-weights model. The interesting part is the bet: a base you can download and fine-tune for yourself.
Read →Thinking Machines open-sourced a frontier-class model
On 15 July the lab led by Mira Murati - OpenAI's former CTO - showed Inkling, its first public model, and released it with open weights. It's not a small demo model: a large mixture-of-experts class, multimodal, with a long context window, that anyone can download and run themselves.
Read →Open models went from 11 to 29 percent of traffic in two months
Vercel released the numbers from its own gateway, through which tens of trillions of tokens pass. Open models now carry 29 percent of volume, up from 11 in April. Another number is quieter. The price per token stopped falling.
Read →xAI released Grok 4.5, trained together with the Cursor editor
The model was announced on July 8, publicly available from the 9th - in Grok Build, in Cursor and through the API console of xAI. The unusual part isn't another version number. The unusual part is that the model was trained together with the editor you'll use it in. In the EU - nothing yet.
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