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Inkling Arrives: Mira Murati's 975 Billion Parameter Open Weight Bet Against One Size Fits All AI - July 19, 2026

Inkling Arrives: Mira Murati's 975 Billion Parameter Open Weight Bet Against One Size Fits All AI - July 19, 2026 Thinking Machines Lab, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released Inkling, a 975 billion parameter mixture of experts model whose weights anyone can download, customize, and own. Rick Spair and Laura dig into the architecture, the Bridgewater fine tuning result that beat top proprietary models, the business model behind giving a frontier model away, and what an American open weight contender means in a race Chinese labs have been winning. Hosted by Rick Spair and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #OpenWeightAI #MiraMurati #ThinkingMachines #TechNews

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, July 19, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, July 19, 2026 In today's briefing: Microsoft prepares Project Perception, a multi model security tool drawing on Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft models. Moonshot AI adds three reasoning effort levels to Kimi K3 on web and mobile. Japan and NVIDIA launch the world's first national AI infrastructure for physical AI with a Vera Rubin AI factory in Tokyo. Protesters rally in more than 125 US locations in the first coordinated national demonstration against the data center buildout. At the World AI Conference in Shanghai, AGIBOT debuts four robots led by the A3 Ultra humanoid, KEENON shows humanoids working complete laundry workflows, Unitree unveils its unmanned robot factory, and Huawei gives the public a first look at the Atlas 950 SuperPod. A suspect in the attack targeting Sam Altman's home is held without bail as threats against AI executives surge. Free access to Claude Fable 5 ends tonight before the model joins paid tiers Monday. Apple closes the week as the world's most valuable company. And SpaceX AI opens its Grok Build coding harness to public audit after a codebase upload controversy. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. Send us fan mail #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #Robotics #DataCenters #DXToday

The Shanghai Counterweight: China's 29 Nation WAICO Alliance and the Two Futures of Global AI Governance - July 18, 2026

The Shanghai Counterweight: China's 29 Nation WAICO Alliance and the Two Futures of Global AI Governance - July 18, 2026 Chris and Laura go deep on the launch of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, the 29 nation alliance China unveiled in Shanghai with Xi Jinping framing open source models as a public good for the Global South. They unpack the founding membership, the pledge of 5,000 AI training spots for developing countries, and what a world with two competing AI governance frameworks means for everyone else. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #WAICO #AIGovernance #China #GlobalSouth

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, July 18, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, July 18, 2026 China's Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open weight model ever published, as Xi Jinping delivers his first keynote at the World AI Conference in Shanghai. Apple overtakes Nvidia to reclaim the title of world's most valuable company while semiconductor stocks sell off on AI spending concerns. Alphabet extends its slide as Gemini 3.5 Pro misses its rumored launch date, and Netflix reveals generative AI touched roughly 300 titles. Meta hires senior AWS executive Dave Brown for its AI infrastructure push, Microsoft preps its multi model Project Perception security tool, and Apple escalates its trade secrets fight with legal warnings to 40 former employees now at OpenAI. Plus, San Francisco orders Apple and Google to remove AI nudify apps, Huawei showcases its Atlas 950 SuperPoD in Shanghai, and 400 developers gather in Silicon Valley for a voice AI travel hackathon. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. Send us fan mail #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenSourceAI #WAIC #DXToday

Gemini 3.5 Pro Goes Live: Two Million Tokens of Context, Deep Think Reasoning, and Google's Bid to Own AI Memory - July 17, 2026

Gemini 3.5 Pro Goes Live: Two Million Tokens of Context, Deep Think Reasoning, and Google's Bid to Own AI Memory - July 17, 2026 Google DeepMind pushes Gemini 3.5 Pro to general availability with a two million token context window, the largest in production anywhere, plus Deep Think extended reasoning on the Ultra tier and autonomous workflow capabilities that break big jobs into subtasks. Chris and Laura dig into what it means for pricing, the efficiency versus scale battle with OpenAI, and why the launch landing on the opening day of the Shanghai World AI Conference is no accident. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #Google #Gemini #DeepThink #AgenticAI