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Tuesday, July 14, 2026
  1. 01 of 10OPENAI

    OpenAI rolls out agent memory upgrade for ChatGPT Business

    OpenAI expanded persistent memory to all ChatGPT Business and Enterprise tiers, letting agents recall project context across sessions without manual pinning.

    OUR TAKESticky memory is table stakes now, but IT teams still get to hold the delete button, which is the only feature that actually matters.

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  2. 02 of 10GOOGLE

    Google Gemini 3 Flash lands with 2M token context on Vertex

    Google made Gemini 3 Flash generally available on Vertex AI with a 2 million token window and a 40 percent price cut versus 2.5 Flash.

    OUR TAKECheap, fast, huge context. Pick any three and Google will still undercut you next quarter.

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  3. 03 of 10ANTHROPIC

    Anthropic ships Claude Code 2 with background task runner

    Claude Code 2 introduces long-running background agents that can execute multi-hour refactors and open pull requests without a human in the loop.

    OUR TAKEVibes-based coding is officially a batch job. Somebody tell the sprint planning meeting.

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  4. 04 of 10NVIDIA

    Nvidia unveils Rubin Ultra rack with 1.5TB HBM4e per node

    At a Taipei event, Nvidia detailed the Rubin Ultra NVL576 rack scaling to 1.5TB of HBM4e per compute node and shipping to hyperscalers in Q4.

    OUR TAKEThe rack costs more than a house and the power bill costs more than the rack. Progress.

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  5. 05 of 10META

    Meta open sources Llama 4.5 with native tool use

    Meta released Llama 4.5 weights under a revised community license, adding native function calling and a 1M token context by default.

    OUR TAKEOpen weights with a license only a lawyer could love, but the benchmarks are hard to argue with.

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  6. 06 of 10SECURITY

    Researchers show prompt injection bypass in enterprise browser agents

    A Zscaler report demonstrates zero-click prompt injection across three major enterprise browser agents, exfiltrating SSO tokens through hidden page content.

    OUR TAKETurns out giving an LLM your cookie jar was the risky part all along.

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  7. 07 of 10STARTUPS

    Perplexity raises 800M at 20B valuation to fund Comet browser

    Perplexity closed an 800 million dollar round led by SoftBank, valuing the search startup at 20 billion and earmarking cash for Comet browser distribution deals.

    OUR TAKEThe plan is to pay OEMs to preinstall a browser nobody asked for. Bold.

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  8. 08 of 10HARDWARE

    AMD Instinct MI400 benchmarks leak ahead of launch

    Leaked MLPerf submissions show AMD MI400 trailing Nvidia B300 by 12 percent on Llama 4 inference but leading on memory bandwidth per dollar.

    OUR TAKESecond place at a lower price is still a business. Ask Intel about the alternative.

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  9. 09 of 10HEALTH

    FDA clears first autonomous AI radiology reader for chest X-rays

    The FDA granted de novo clearance to Annalise.ai for an autonomous chest X-ray triage system, the first cleared to operate without radiologist sign-off.

    OUR TAKEA machine reads the scan and nobody double checks. What could possibly go wrong on a Friday afternoon.

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  10. 10 of 10POLICY

    EU AI Office publishes final GPAI code of practice compliance guide

    The EU AI Office released the final compliance guide for general purpose AI providers, with copyright transparency templates due September 1.

    OUR TAKETemplates in Brussels, lawyers in Silicon Valley, and models trained on everything anyway.

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