AI News — July 17, 2026: Kimi K3's 2.8T Weights Drop, EU Cracks Open Google's Android Moat

AI News — July 20, 2026: Qwen 3.8's 2.4T Parameters Counter Kimi K3, Moonshot Pauses Signups Under Demand

Alibaba launched Qwen 3.8 at 2.4T parameters to rival Kimi K3, which sold out its own GPUs forcing Moonshot to pause signups. Claude also reportedly cracked a 1939 math conjecture.

AI News — July 19, 2026: Kimi K3 Pricing Caveats Bite, GPT-5.6 Sol Closes 30-Year Conjecture

Kimi K3 pricing backlash and political fallout dominate AI discourse, GPT-5.6 claims a 30-year math breakthrough, and new on-device speech models continue empowering solo developers.

AI News — July 18, 2026: Apple's Trade Secrets Siege Targets 400 OpenAI Hires, IPO at Stake

Apple escalates its OpenAI trade secrets lawsuit with document retention letters to dozens of employees, threatening IPO plans, while Isomorphic Labs claims a major AlphaFold successor breakthrough.

AI News — July 17, 2026: Kimi K3's 2.8T Weights Drop, EU Cracks Open Google's Android Moat

Kimi K3 debuts as the largest open-weight model ever at 2.8T parameters, the EU forces Google to open Android and Search to AI rivals, and Apple Intelligence finally gets China approval.

AI News — July 16, 2026: Thinking Machines' 975B Inkling Debuts Native Audio, Suno Hack Hands RIAA a Smoking Gun

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines debuts Inkling, a 975B open-weights multimodal AI model, while xAI open-sources Grok Build amid data privacy controversy and Apple eyes China expansion via Qwen.