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Sat 18 Jul · 12 stories · 5 sections

Frontier labs 1 item

OpenAI's full-duplex GPT-Live voice models listen and talk at once and offload hard questions to GPT-5.5, replacing Advanced Voice Mode.

Agents & tooling 3 items

DoorDash launched dd-cli, a beta command-line AI agent that finds deals, searches restaurants, and places orders from the terminal.
Microsoft plans an AI security bug-finder this month that uses Anthropic, OpenAI, and its own models as a cheaper alternative to Mythos.
Roblox unveiled Build, a mobile AI tool that generates playable games directly from text prompts.

Research & papers 2 items

FutureHouse's open-source Robin agent proposed drug repurposings for dry AMD; lab tests confirmed two, including glaucoma drug Ripasudil.
Independent tests like Simon Willison's pelican-SVG benchmark back Kimi K3's near-frontier claims before its July 27 weight release.

Business & policy 4 items

Meta is in talks to lease data-center compute to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth about $10B over two years, signaling a cloud pivot.
Xi Jinping championed open-source AI at the World AI Conference and pledged to help the Global South, calling unequal access an injustice.
The Trump administration is weighing an independent regulator, reporting to the SEC, to vet the safety of top AI models.
San Francisco ordered Apple and Google to pull 13 AI apps used to make deepfake nude images; Google says it removed five.

Also notable 2 items

A widely shared 'State of Open Source AI' report maps the current landscape of open models, tooling, and adoption.
MLB banned teams from using league-issued dugout iPads to tap generative AI for in-game strategy; up to a third of teams had done so.
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