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Thu 30 Jul · 15 stories · 5 sections

Frontier labs 3 items

Ant Group releases Ling-3.0-Flash for AI agents, claiming parity with models 2-3x its size; open weights due next week.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, giving 100,000 scientists and engineers free frontier-model access through 2027.
Google DeepMind launches Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, citing gains in musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control.

Agents & tooling 3 items

A document-borne prompt injection can self-propagate through Copilot for Word, upgrading injection attacks into worms.
Turbo Fieldfare, an open-source engine, runs Gemma 4 26B in 2GB of RAM on any M-series Mac.
Inside OpenAI's open-source agent harness now powering Codex and ChatGPT Work, being tuned to cut runaway token usage.

Research & papers 3 items

Handbook.md: a new arXiv study finds long policy documents do not reliably govern LLM agents' behavior.
Matthew Green: Anthropic's HAWK and AES results show AI can absorb published cryptanalysis and extend it into new attacks.
A Science analysis finds AI's top startups are barely publishing their research anymore.

Business & policy 4 items

OpenRouter's annualized revenue reached ~$140M, up nearly 3x since April, making Stripe's reported $10B offer a steep premium.
Microsoft Q4: revenue up 18% to $90.1B; 365 Copilot tops 30M paid seats (20M+ last quarter); Azure's fiscal year passes $100B.
Meta raises 2026 capex to $130B-$145B; Zuckerberg says there is 'nowhere near enough compute' for demand; stock falls 8%.
The European Commission plans to designate ChatGPT and Roblox as 'very large online platforms' under the DSA as soon as August.

Also notable 2 items

A hands-on report on self-hosting Kimi K3 finds roughly 20% more hardware cost for 20% better task resolution.
GPTZero flags hallucinated content in four PwC Middle East reports; its checks previously pushed EY and KPMG to retract.
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