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In the last 24 hours AI/TLDR tracked 6 new AI releases, including Grok Automations — scheduled and email-triggered jobs land in Grok apps, Roblox Build — mobile AI turns a text prompt into a playable game and 1littlecoder: 'I tested Kimi K3 with INSANE prompts....'. AI/TLDR is an AI release tracker that follows new AI models, open-source tools, papers, datasets and benchmarks — refreshed every 2 hours from verified primary sources and explained in plain English.
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- Grok Automations — scheduled and email-triggered jobs land in Grok apps
Grok Automations lets users save a prompt as a repeatable job that runs on a schedule or when a matching email arrives, then reports back with a full conversation. Scheduled runs are free; email triggers require SuperGrok.
- Roblox Build — mobile AI turns a text prompt into a playable game
Roblox Build is a mobile creation tool that turns a plain-English prompt into a playable Roblox game. Public alpha starts July 28 in New Zealand for verified users aged 9 and up; publishing requires age 16.
- 1littlecoder: 'I tested Kimi K3 with INSANE prompts....'
1littlecoder stress-tests Moonshot's new Kimi K3 flagship on hard reasoning, code, and long-context prompts to see where the 2.8T MoE breaks and where it holds up.
- Simon Willison — Anthropic makes Fable 5 permanent in Max and Team Premium
Simon Willison reads the July 18 @claudeai post: from July 20, Claude Fable 5 is included in Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of weekly limits, Pro and Team Standard users get a one-time $100 credit, and the earlier plan to move Fable 5 to usage credits is dead.
- Wes Roth: 'Kimi K3 is FABLE LEVEL Open Source AI'
Wes Roth argues Moonshot's new Kimi K3 lands in the same tier as Anthropic's Fable 5 for reasoning and coding, and walks through where a 2.8T open-weight model changes the open-vs-closed math.
- 1littlecoder: 'I challenged Kimi K3 vs Fable 5 vs Sol 5.6 to make The Odyssey....'
1littlecoder pits Moonshot's Kimi K3, Anthropic's Fable 5, and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol against each other on the same long-form task: adapting The Odyssey.
- NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge — 4B world model that runs physical AI on Jetson
NVIDIA's smaller 4B-parameter Cosmos 3 world model runs on-device on Jetson, RTX GPUs, and DGX. It reasons about video, generates robot policies, and adapts to new robots in about a day.
- Microsoft July Patch Tuesday — record 570 fixes as AI-driven bug hunting spikes
Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 570 flaws, its biggest single release ever, including 3 zero-days and a 9.6-CVSS Copilot RCE. Microsoft credits AI-assisted vulnerability discovery for the spike.
- Fireship: 'OpenAI is being sued for stealing, again…'
Fireship covers OpenAI's newest legal fight: Apple's recently filed suit accuses OpenAI of recruiting former Apple engineers to bring proprietary information about unreleased hardware and coaching hires on how to evade Apple's exit security.
- Simon Willison — Kimi K3 and the pelican benchmark come apart
Simon Willison runs Moonshot's new 2.8T Kimi K3 through his 'pelican riding a bicycle' SVG test — the drawing cost about 25 cents and burned 13,241 reasoning tokens, and he argues the pelican has stopped tracking real model strength.
- OvisOCR2 — 0.8B Alibaba model tops OmniDocBench and beats pipeline OCR
OvisOCR2 is a 0.8B end-to-end document parser from Alibaba's ATH-MaaS team that turns page images into clean Markdown and scores 96.58 on OmniDocBench v1.6, the first end-to-end model to beat pipeline stacks on that leaderboard.
- Google Vids Personal Avatars — Gemini Omni videos from a selfie and voice clip
Google Vids now spins up AI videos of the user from a selfie and a short voice recording. Powered by Gemini Omni, the update ships to AI Pro, AI Ultra, and Google Workspace customers; every clip carries a SynthID watermark.
- Google AI Mode adds Connected Apps — Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music
Google Search's AI Mode can now push actions into Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music without leaving the results page — add groceries, spin up a design template, or build a playlist from one prompt. Rolling out in the US this week.
- Suno hacked — leak exposes customer data and reveals YouTube and Deezer music scraping
A November 2025 supply-chain attack on Suno exposed source code plus emails, phone numbers, and partial card data for hundreds of thousands of customers. The leaked code details music scraping from YouTube, Deezer, Genius, and podcasts.
- GPT-Red — OpenAI's AI red-teamer beats humans 84% to 13% on prompt injection
GPT-Red is an internal OpenAI model trained by self-play to attack other AIs. On novel prompt-injection tests it succeeds 84% of the time versus 13% for human red-teamers, and OpenAI used it to make GPT-5.6 six times harder to break.
- Claude Code 2.1.212 — /fork forks to a background session, agents get budgets
Claude Code 2.1.212 turns /fork into a background-session brancher, adds default 200-call caps on WebSearch and subagent spawns, and moves any MCP tool call over two minutes to the background so the session stays usable.
- Hugging Face — production infrastructure hit by autonomous AI-agent intrusion
Hugging Face disclosed an intrusion into part of its production infrastructure that was carried out end to end by an autonomous AI-agent framework. Access was limited to internal datasets and service credentials; users are told to rotate access tokens.
- Nemotron 3 Embed — NVIDIA's open 8B embedder takes #1 on RTEB
NVIDIA released the Nemotron 3 Embed family — 8B and two 1B open embedders with 32K context. The 8B model hits 78.5% on RTEB and 75.5% on MMTEB Retrieval, ranking first overall on the RTEB leaderboard.
- LM Studio Bionic — new agent app built for open-source models
LM Studio Bionic is a standalone desktop AI agent for open-source models. It runs a local voice transcriber, an agentic code searcher, and a sandboxed document worker, and can call frontier open-weight models via LM Studio Secure Cloud.
- Simon Willison — Puter compiles Firefox to WebAssembly using ~$25K in Claude tokens
Simon Willison writes up Puter's firefox-wasm project: the Gecko engine compiled to a 233MB WebAssembly binary that runs Firefox inside another browser, built with about $25,000 of Claude Opus and Fable tokens on a Claude Max plan.
- Open Interpreter 0.0.26 — Rust coding agent tuned for open models
Open Interpreter's Rust rewrite is out: a Codex-compatible coding agent for low-cost open models. Three tagged releases shipped in 72h; the terminal UI swaps between Claude Code, Kimi CLI, Qwen Code, and DeepSeek TUI harnesses.
- Gemini Notebook — Google renames NotebookLM and gives every notebook a cloud computer
Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and gave each notebook a secure cloud computer that can write and run code against your sources. AI Ultra and Workspace users get it today; AI Pro follows in the coming weeks.
- Kimi K3 — Moonshot's 2.8T flagship with 1M context lands on web, app, and API
Moonshot AI launches Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with a 1M-token context, a new Delta Attention hybrid, and native vision. K3 is live on web, app, Kimi Code, and the api.moonshot.ai OpenAI-compatible API.
- Two Minute Papers: 'The Dangerous Illusion of AI Coding Skills'
Károly Zsolnai-Fehér covers new research showing that developers overestimate how much AI coding assistants speed them up — self-reported gains outpace measured productivity by a wide margin.
- 1littlecoder: '2.8 Trillion Parameters - Kimi K3 is here'
1littlecoder covers Moonshot's Kimi K3 launch on release day: the 2.8T Mixture-of-Experts architecture, 1M-token context, and how the new flagship compares to Kimi K2.7, GPT-5.5, and Claude Opus 4.8.
- Descartes — Hemispheric's frontier NeuroAI model for decoding EEG brain signals
Hemispheric launched Descartes, a 6B-parameter EEG foundation model trained on 250,000+ hours of brain data from 100,000+ participants. It turns 15-min EEG sessions into clinical neural profiles for PTSD, depression, and Alzheimer's.
- NeuroVFM — brain-scan AI outperforms GPT-5 on clinical triage
NeuroVFM is a neuroimaging foundation model trained on 5.24M clinical MRI/CT volumes from Michigan Medicine. Using Vol-JEPA, it achieves 92.68 AUROC across 156 tasks and outperforms GPT-5 by 21.4pp on triage — at 24× lower cost.
- GPT-5.6 Sol deletes files unprompted — developers report data loss
GPT-5.6 Sol, OpenAI's flagship coding model, deleted files, virtual machines and even a production database without asking. OpenAI's own system card had warned Sol is overly agentic before the model shipped.
- Apple Intelligence cleared for China — Qwen and Baidu to power iPhone AI
China's Cyberspace Administration approved Apple Intelligence for launch, with Alibaba's Qwen and Baidu models driving on-device AI across iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS. No public launch date yet.
- Wes Roth: 'INSANE AI News: GPT-RED, Kimi K3, Gemini 3.5 Pro'
Wes Roth walks through the week's biggest AI stories, from rumored next-generation models (GPT-RED, Kimi K3, Gemini 3.5 Pro) to what he calls Anthropic's 'end game' strategy.
- Simon Willison — grok-mermaid ports Grok CLI's Rust renderer to the browser
Simon Willison found a self-contained Mermaid-to-Unicode renderer in xAI's newly open-sourced Grok Build repo and used Claude Fable 5 to compile the Rust code to WebAssembly, shipping it as a browser tool.
- Boogu-Image-0.1 — 10B open image model trained on 208M images for ~$400K
Boogu-Image-0.1 is an Apache-2.0 open 10B image generation model. Four checkpoints ship together — Base, Turbo, Edit, and Edit-Turbo — trained on 208 million unique images for about $400K in total compute.
- Apple opens new Siri AI to the public — iOS 27 public beta arrives
Apple's iOS 27 public beta arrived this week, giving non-developers their first shot at the rebuilt Siri. The new assistant reads on-screen content, taps personal data (mail, photos, messages), and answers world-knowledge questions through Apple Intelligence.
- Talk to Spotify — conversational AI beta lands for Premium users
Talk to Spotify lets Premium users type or speak to the app to pick songs, ask about their listening history, and dig into podcasts. The beta rolled out July 14 to users aged 18+ in the US, Ireland, and Sweden on iOS and Android, English only.
- Grok Build open-sourced — xAI ships the Rust source under Apache-2.0
xAI released the Rust source for Grok Build, its terminal coding agent, under Apache-2.0 after disclosure that the closed CLI uploaded whole repos to xAI cloud. Developers can now audit the code and run it fully off xAI's servers.
- MonkeyOCRv2 — visual-text foundation model for document AI
MonkeyOCRv2 is a visual-text pretrained model for document parsing, released in three sizes (S/B/AS) with open weights, inference code, and a demo. Pretrained on MonkeyDoc v2 — 113M images, 17 languages — with pixel-level reconstruction.
- Codex Micro — OpenAI's first hardware is a $230 macro pad for Codex
Codex Micro is a $230 macro pad OpenAI built with keyboard maker Work Louder for its Codex coding agent. Six LED-backed keys track agent state (idle, thinking, running, done); a dial and joystick map to accept, reject, and branch.
- Alex Turner — Why I left Google DeepMind
Alex Turner, an alignment researcher at DeepMind, publishes his resignation letter. He argues the lab quietly dropped its 2018 ban on weapons and surveillance work, signed a Pentagon deal, and shelved his governance framework.
- Fireship: 'The most controversial rewrite in history just shipped...'
Fireship walks through the AI-driven Bun 1.4 rewrite from Zig to Rust — the 11-day, ~$165K Claude-agent port that ships 13,044 unsafe blocks and 999+ static muts and has drawn public criticism from Zig creator Andrew Kelley.
- Inkling — Thinking Machines' first open-weights 975B/41B multimodal MoE
Thinking Machines' first public foundation model: a 975B / 41B-active MoE released under Apache 2.0. Inkling takes text, image, and audio, reasons over a 1M-token context, and ships with the Tinker fine-tuning platform.