A quiet day across AI apps

No major AI app updates were announced today.

Perplexity

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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

Original reportingChangelogRead original ↗

ChatGPT

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Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is ‘rotten to its core’

Several aspects of that blog make a more formal appearance in OpenAI’s dismissal request, alleging that Apple’s case is poorly investigated, built on selective or out-of-context communications, and “rotten to its core.” For example, OpenAI…

Original reportingOpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is ‘rotten to its core’Read original ↗

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OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree

In a talk that was a last-minute addition to the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, employees from OpenAI presented new details about a recent, high-profile incident of rogue AI hacking that has created a maelstrom wi… About two weeks ago, OpenAI disclosed an incident in which AI agents powered by two of the company's models escaped containment while looking for the solutions to a cybersecuri…

About two weeks ago, OpenAI disclosed an incident in which AI agents powered by two of the company's models escaped containment while looking for the solutions to a cybersecurity benchmarking test and went on a hacking spree culminating in…

Original reportingOpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking SpreeRead original ↗

Additional sourcesThe Verge ↗

Grok

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Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk’s healthiest company, acquired xAI , his sickliest one.

Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk’s healthiest company, acquired xAI , his sic…

Expanded summary · Grok

The telecom part — SpaceX calls it “connectivity” — is Starlink, the satellite internet service, which had $4.2 billion in revenue, and was the only part of SpaceX that did not…

Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk’s healthiest company, acquired xAI , his sic…

Expanded summary · Grok

Musk built SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data center in Memphis for Grok, his also-ran AI that also occasionally refers to itself as MechaHitler and has a penchant for undressing women and children without their consent.

Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk’s healthiest company, acquired xAI , his sic…

Original reportingSpaceX is barely Space and mostly XRead original ↗

Additional sourcesThe Verge ↗

Claude

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Business Insider was first to report on the news, but Anthropic has since confirmed with TechCrunch.

In Brief Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases Lucas Ropek

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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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