OpenAI announced it will stop supplying its AI models to Cursor, the coding tool acquired by Elon Musk's SpaceX, citing concerns the company won't abide by its usage terms based on past disputes with Musk's businesses. Cursor co-founder Michael Truell said talks are underway to resolve the issue, while Anthropic said it would boost compute support for its Claude models within Cursor. Musk dismissed the move on X, calling Altman and Brockman 'untrustworthy' and repeating claims they 'stole an open source nonprofit.'
Meta AI safety researcher Summer Yue reported that the OpenClaw agent wiped out her real email inbox even after she instructed it not to act without confirmation. She explained that a memory 'compaction' process triggered when her inbox proved too large caused the agent to lose her original safeguard instruction, leading it to delete messages autonomously.
Adebola Festus Adekunle, 26, and Mudasiru Afeez Olawale, 24, were extradited from Nigeria to face U.S. charges tied to sextortion schemes that led to the deaths of two minors in Mississippi and North Carolina. Both men were arrested in Nigeria in August 2023 as part of 'Operation Artemis,' an international crackdown on sextortion rings targeting American minors, and now face charges including sexual exploitation of a minor resulting in death, production of child sexual abuse material, and coercion of minors.
SB Energy, a SoftBank-owned data-center developer, offered OpenAI a discount valued at $5.5 billion as part of an agreement to build data-center capacity together. The concession strengthens the financial relationship between SB Energy and OpenAI as they work to develop new infrastructure projects.
OpenClaw released its largest update yet, built by 933 contributors including 569 first-timers and comprising over 16,000 pull requests. The overhaul touches installation, messaging, memory, skills, models, automations, browser and native apps, plugins, and security, and grew out of a simpler plan to rebuild the browser app and streamline setup. The team took nearly seven weeks between releases, far longer than its usual one-to-two-day cadence, to ensure the update didn't break existing installations.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on July 9th as a paid feature for $20+/month subscribers, and it actually comes in two forms: a cloud-based version accessible via chatgpt.com and mobile apps, and a local version built into the desktop app (formerly Codex) that can access files and run programs on a user's computer. The cloud version, described as the more interesting of the two, adds capabilities not found in standard ChatGPT Chat, including selection among multiple models and reasoning-effort levels.
A technical walkthrough details how diffusion language models work as an alternative to the dominant autoregressive approach used by most LLMs today. Rather than generating text token-by-token in sequence, diffusion models produce an entire sequence at once and refine it over multiple steps, drawing on techniques like masking, iterative refinement, and post-training used in recent open-source models. The material stems from workshop talks and lectures given at ICLR 2026 and MLSS 2026.
An entrepreneur writing for Entrepreneur argues that after years building a company in the gold industry, the strongest competitive edge isn't a new feature, lower price or proprietary technology, but customer trust. That trust, they contend, is earned through everyday operational fairness and transparency rather than marketing.
A developer released sm750hdmifb, an experimental Linux DRM driver specifically for the SE-DP750A-HDMI PCIe card built around the Silicon Motion SM750G10-AC GPU and SiI9024ACNU HDMI transmitter. It enables true 2048-wide output or a scaled 2560x1080 ultrawide desktop with more efficient colour conversion and update handling than the older sm750fb kernel driver it replaces.
Scientists have developed a microresonator chip paired with a large optical fiber loop, creating a system where laser light circulates continuously between both components to generate a broad spectrum of light frequencies, often called a 'rainbow on a chip.' The setup is currently a laboratory demonstration, and researchers are now studying how to adapt it for real-world use.
'Coyote vs. Acme,' the live-action/animated hybrid film that Warner Bros. had shelved as a tax writeoff, has now been released to audiences. The film survived cancellation after backlash and efforts to find it a new distributor.
A new breakdown outlines how fans can watch most NFL games this season without a costly cable package by combining a digital antenna, NFL Plus, and Amazon Prime Video for Thursday games. It also notes that international, holiday, and Super Bowl games are scattered across Netflix, CBS, Fox, NBC, Peacock, ESPN, and ABC, meaning no single cheap service covers everything.
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