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Claude Fable 5 becomes standard on Max and Team Premium plans starting July 20VIDRAFT open-sources Aether-7B-5Attn with Latin-square heterogeneous attentionMeta Superintelligence Labs publishes RA-RFT for analogy-based math reasoningNVIDIA and Hugging Face bring NeMo Automodel fine-tuning to Diffusers models at scaleNVIDIA positions Vera Rubin to maximize intelligence per dollar for agentic post-trainingOpenAI publishes a CFO scorecard for useful intelligence per dollarAnthropic details how Claude Code runs million-line migrations including Bun Zig-to-RustGoogle upgrades NotebookLM with Gemini 3.5 agentic chat, code execution and new outputsGoogle Vids adds Gemini Omni video generation, chat editing and personal avatarsHugging Face discloses production intrusion driven by an autonomous AI agentMoonshot AI launches Kimi K3, a 2.8T open frontier model with 1M-token contextNVIDIA and Japan launch national Vera Rubin AI factory with 27,500 GPUs for physical AINVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Embed; 8B checkpoint ranks #1 overall on RTEBWhy teens deserve access to safe AI: OpenAI details ChatGPT teen safeguardsClaude Fable 5 becomes standard on Max and Team Premium plans starting July 20VIDRAFT open-sources Aether-7B-5Attn with Latin-square heterogeneous attentionMeta Superintelligence Labs publishes RA-RFT for analogy-based math reasoningNVIDIA and Hugging Face bring NeMo Automodel fine-tuning to Diffusers models at scaleNVIDIA positions Vera Rubin to maximize intelligence per dollar for agentic post-trainingOpenAI publishes a CFO scorecard for useful intelligence per dollarAnthropic details how Claude Code runs million-line migrations including Bun Zig-to-RustGoogle upgrades NotebookLM with Gemini 3.5 agentic chat, code execution and new outputsGoogle Vids adds Gemini Omni video generation, chat editing and personal avatarsHugging Face discloses production intrusion driven by an autonomous AI agentMoonshot AI launches Kimi K3, a 2.8T open frontier model with 1M-token contextNVIDIA and Japan launch national Vera Rubin AI factory with 27,500 GPUs for physical AINVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Embed; 8B checkpoint ranks #1 overall on RTEBWhy teens deserve access to safe AI: OpenAI details ChatGPT teen safeguards

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Moonshot AI launches Kimi K3, a 2.8T open frontier model with 1M-token context

Moonshot AI introduced Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter multimodal model with Kimi Delta Attention, Attention Residuals, Stable LatentMoE (16 of 896 experts active) and a 1-million-token context window. Live today on Kimi.com, Kimi Work, Kimi Code and the Kimi API at $0.30/$3.00/$15.00 per MTok (cache-hit/miss input/output); full open weights are promised by July 27, 2026.

Source: Moonshot AIRead source
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Claude Fable 5 becomes standard on Max and Team Premium plans starting July 20

Anthropic’s Help Center confirms that from July 20, 2026, Claude Fable 5 is a standard part of Max plans and premium Team/Enterprise seats for up to 50% of weekly usage limits at no extra cost. Pro and standard Team seats keep Fable 5 on usage credits after the July 19 promotional window, with a one-time credit for eligible users.

Source: Claude Help CenterRead source
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VIDRAFT open-sources Aether-7B-5Attn with Latin-square heterogeneous attention

Korean startup VIDRAFT released Aether-7B-5Attn, a 6.59B MoE (~2.98B active) trained from scratch on 144.2B tokens with five attention mechanisms arranged on a 7×7 Latin square. The Apache-2.0 drop includes weights, data recipe, training code, logs and intermediate checkpoints—positioned as a fully reproducible sovereign foundation model, not weights-only openness.

Source: Hugging FaceRead source
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