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AI lab announcements, 13–19 July 2026 — forck

Week 29, 2026 · AI lab announcements, 13–19 July 2026

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Monday

13 July

Google DeepMind Story of the week

Empowering India’s next generation of innovators with ATL Saathi

Google and AIM launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered AI tool for Indian educators in robotics labs.

13 Jul

Also Monday

MetaCapability change
Modernizing the Meta Ads Service With an Open-Source Kernel Scheduler
Microsoft Research
Verifying Rust cryptography in SymCrypt, from standards to code
falOpen-weight release

On the shows on Monday2 episodes

1:11:56Yes, even Nvidia's head of automotive is fighting for compute

Decoder · 13 Jul · 72 min

49:44The AI Memory Problem: Why Long Context Isn’t Enough — Dan Biderman, Engram Co-founder & CEO

Tuesday

14 July

Introducing Claude for Teachers

Anthropic introduced Claude for Teachers.

14 Jul

Memeburn: “Claude for Teachers Gives Educators Free Premium AI Access”

Reporting · 3 outlets

Anthropic· 14 Jul

Introducing Claude for Teachers

Also Tuesday

Google DeepMind
Reconstructing Pelé’s “lost” goal

Wednesday

15 July

xAIDeveloper tool

Grok Build is Now Open Source

xAI has open-sourced Grok Build, the harness behind their coding agent and TUI.

15 Jul

Tech Times: “Grok Build Open-Sourced After Covert Upload: Code to Exfiltrate Repos Stays In”

GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness

OpenAI introduces GPT-Red, an automated red teaming system that uses self-play to improve AI safety, alignment, and prompt injection robustness.

Thursday

16 July

Databricks
Your AI is ready. Your data foundation probably isn’t
Replit
The Self-Driving Company
OpenAICapability change
Why teens deserve access to safe AI
AMD

Friday

17 July

A scorecard for the AI age

Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute.

17 Jul

Mediapost: “OpenAI CFO Outlines Measurement Framework For AI Investments”

Also Friday

NVIDIAInfrastructure
NVIDIA Vera Rubin Maximizes Intelligence per Dollar for Post-Training Workloads — a Key Metric for Agentic AI

Saturday

18 July

AmpPricing change
Subscriptions, At Last

Sunday

19 July

ByteDanceNew model
From Speech to Audio Creation | Introducing the Seed Audio 1.0 Audio Creation Model

On the shows on Sunday1 episode

1:12:07Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)

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From clay 3d render to a real action short: a 3D-to-AI pipeline with total control

MetaCompany news

Teachers and Local Businesses Win as Meta Expands Louisiana Data Center

Open-weight models surge to 29% of volume, price per token flattens

What building Shippy taught us about building agents

Genspark
How a Finance Intern Used Genspark AI to Turn Public Records Into Real Assets Opportunities
Cua
Computer-Use 2.0 at AI Engineer World's Fair
ManusCapability change
Introducing Auto-Publish: Build Once, Ship Continuously
CognitionAvailability change
Devin is Now FedRAMP High In-Process, Unlocking Autonomous AI Engineering for Federal Agencies
CognitionModel update
Making Fable Cheaper Than Opus

Latent Space · 13 Jul · 50 min

HarveyAvailability change

Harvey Opens Chicago Office

How to manage AI investments in the agentic era

InceptionNew model

Mercury 2: the first reasoning model fast enough to pick up the phone

ManusCapability change

Introducing PowerPoint Slides on Manus

sad alex on songwriting, short-form, and creative autonomy

AmpCapability change

Secrets of the Orb

CognitionModel update

One Year of Building Together

OpenAI
Sales workflows with ChatGPT Work
OpenAI
Data science workflows with ChatGPT Work
OpenAI
How sales teams use ChatGPT Work
OpenAI
How data science teams use ChatGPT Work
Cohere
Tiny Aya in the wild: What people are building with open multilingual AI
AnthropicCompany news
Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian AI research
OpenAI
How sales teams use ChatGPT Work
OpenAI
How data science teams use ChatGPT Work

On the shows on Tuesday2 episodes

48:55Anthropic's Katelyn Lesse & Angela Jiang: Building an Ecosystem, not a Walled Garden

Training Data · 14 Jul · 49 min

31:49Is AI a Bubble? | Gavin Baker on Data Centers, GPUs, and the AI Economy

a16z Podcast · 14 Jul · 32 min

OpenAI

15 Jul

Memeburn: “OpenAI's GPT-Red Shows AI Doesn't Need to Hack You If It Can Manipulate You”

Also Wednesday

NVIDIANew model
NVIDIA Introduces New Jetson Thor Computers to Advance Mainstream Robotics and Edge AI
DatabricksAvailability change
Inkling model from Thinking Machines Lab now on Databricks
Google ResearchResearch paper
Towards demystifying the creativity of diffusion models
Databricks
Data-Native AI Agents: Why Agents Must Move to Your Data
Hugging Face
Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn’t.
MetaResearch paper
Exploring Hierarchical Interest Representation For Meta Ads Deep Funnel Optimization
Sakana AIPartnership
Sakana AI Teams With NVIDIA to Advance Open Model Innovation from Japan
Microsoft
Azure Databricks delivers proven business value
OpenAI
The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action
NVIDIA
NVIDIA and Japan Bring Full-Stack AI and Robotics to Every Industry

LovableCapability change
Your Lovable app now works inside ChatGPT and Claude
Vercel
How Speechify serves 500,000 dynamic pages to 60 million users on Vercel
Thinking Machines LabOpen-weight release
Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

On the shows on Wednesday1 episode

1:05:18From the Archive: Can Anyone Catch NVIDIA? | The Future of Chips and Infrastructure

a16z Podcast · 15 Jul · 65 min

AMD Appoints Alan Smith as Newest Corporate Fellow

Newer Models, Same Advantage

HarveyPartnership

Y Combinator-Backed Benchmark Joins Harvey

Google DeepMind

Our approach to bioresilience

How Codex became a collaborator for OpenAI’s creative team

SupabaseCapability change

Unified Logs is now in open beta

Isomorphic LabsSafety or policy

Our approach to bioresilience

H CompanyProduct launch
Computer-use Agents launch as a managed API
Moonshot AIResearch paper
PerceptionBench
Moonshot AINew model
Kimi K3
xAICapability change
Automations in Grok
xAINew model
Introducing Grok 4.5
CoherePartnership
Cohere and the University of Toronto partner to advance responsible AI adoption at scale
Together AI
What does 99.9% uptime mean for inference?
Hugging Face
Security incident disclosure — July 2026
OpenAI
How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI

On the shows on Thursday3 episodes

1:17:11Replay 2025: David Sacks on AI, Crypto, and America's Technology Future

a16z Podcast · 16 Jul · 77 min

55:31This AI will push back if you're rude to it

Sources · 16 Jul · 56 min

1:41:04🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences

Latent Space · 16 Jul · 101 min

Google DeepMindNew model

Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber

HarveyCapability change

The Brief: July 2026

Inside Our Approach to Building Runway Agent

Manus
How Manus became “James,” the AI chief of staff behind Ascendea’s 90× output shift
AmpCapability change
From Agent to Agent
CursorCapability change
Improvements to Cursor in Slack

On the shows on Friday3 episodes

25:47Amjad Masad on Going Direct, Building Replit, and the Future of Software

a16z Podcast · 17 Jul · 26 min

1:05:47The Legal Face-off Between Apple and OpenAI

Hard Fork · 17 Jul · 66 min

1:14:26World Models, Explained

Y Combinator Startup Podcast · 17 Jul · 74 min

Lenny's Podcast · 19 Jul · 72 min

GradiumNew model

Smaller, clearer, better: Phonon Multilingual beats Magpie and NeuTTS Nano in French, German, and Spanish

LG AI ResearchResearch paper

[CVPR 2026] Beyond Text: How VinQA Incorporates Visual Elements into Responses for Multimodal Document QA

The total cost of AI ownership

Together AICapability change

New in Together GPU Clusters: Reliability and control for production GPU clusters

Together AINew model

Together AI brings Thinking Machines Lab’s new model Inkling on day 0

Hugging FaceResearch paper

Introducing Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AI

Hugging FaceNew model

Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines