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6 updates · 5 appsJuly 21, 2026

A quiet day across AI apps

It's a quiet day in AI news, with no new app features or major updates to report.

Perplexity

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Expanded summary · Perplexity

Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3, xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning, and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent.

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

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Claude Code

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The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code

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ChatGPT

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Expanded summary · ChatGPT

China’s leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost.

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OpenAI shares lessons from deploying long-running AI models, highlighting new safety risks, observed failures, and improved safeguards through iterative deployment.

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Original reportingSafety and alignment in an era of long-horizon modelsRead original

Claude

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Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex Lucas Ropek

Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex Lucas Ropek Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out Lucas Ropek Anthropic can finally start cutting checks to a group of authors and book publishers that sued the AI lab over copyright infringement. A federal judge gave final approval Monday of Anthropic’s landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a class ac…

Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out Lucas Ropek

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Gemini

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Expanded summary · Gemini

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is designing a new server chip to help its in-house Gemini models operate more efficiently.

According to the report, the chip could be between six and 10 times more efficient than Google’s e…

Original reportingGoogle is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient | TechCrunchRead original