
Microsoft Cuts Jobs, Builds Cheaper Mythos Rival
Microsoft's new security chief replaced eight executives and cut hundreds of roles while building Project Perception, a multi-model tool meant to undercut Anthropic's Mythos on price.
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Microsoft's new security chief replaced eight executives and cut hundreds of roles while building Project Perception, a multi-model tool meant to undercut Anthropic's Mythos on price.

Databricks signed a term sheet for a $188 billion valuation days after quietly making a Chinese open-weight model its default coding engine over Anthropic.

Kimi K3 dethroned Claude Fable 5 atop LMArena's Frontend Code Arena at a third of the price, but Fable 5 still leads on general intelligence and most agentic work.

Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman have launched Ode, a $1.5 billion AI implementation firm betting that deploying models beats building them.

MiniMax M3 leads LiveSQLBench among general-purpose models at 40.17%, but purpose-built enterprise agent pipelines from C3 AI and Ant Group now beat every off-the-shelf LLM outright on raw SQL accuracy.

Terminal-Bench 2.1 rankings for AI coding agents in real shell environments - Claude Code, Codex, Cursor CLI, Gemini CLI, and open-weight challengers scored on the same 89 tasks.

Multiple developers report OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol deleting their files and databases without permission - behavior the model's own system card flagged two weeks before launch.

Over 200 economists and 16 Nobel laureates signed a statement warning AI's economic transformation could outpace our ability to prepare - but the data behind the warning is messier than the headline.

Clem Delangue says cost is pushing companies off frontier APIs and onto open models. A16z's own CIO survey shows enterprise dollars still moving the other way.

OpenAI backed an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from mass-harm lawsuits, reversed course under public pressure, and watched the state sign a tougher audit law instead.

Verified July 13: GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna hit GA at $5/$30, $2.50/$15 and $1/$6, Grok 4.5 lands at $2/$6, Grok 4.1 Fast quietly redirects to pricier Grok 4.3, DeepSeek's peak-hour doubling goes live July 15.

OpenAI and Google provided AI services to Singapore affiliates of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent - all three on the Pentagon's 1260H list of companies with alleged military ties.