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    Everyday life 3 sources

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

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    Builders 1 source

    Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant

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    Builders 1 source

    Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic

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    Your work 1 source

    Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents

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    Creators 1 source

    xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’

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    AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for July 16, 2026 — 24 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. AI Isn’t Smarter Than a Baby—Yet Wired
  2. SpaceX falls to $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch TechCrunch
  3. Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model Wired
  4. Suno snatched millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer The Verge
  5. What building Shippy taught us about building agents Hugging Face
  6. Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn’t. Hugging Face
  7. Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  8. The First Chatbot’s Multiple Personalities IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  9. This AI Folds DNA Into Mini Masterpieces IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  10. The Download: a useful quantum machine and a record-breaking subsea tunnel MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  11. An Inventor of Apple’s FaceID Wants to Analyze Your Brain’s Health With AI Wired
  12. My Ebike Delivery Went Missing. When I Tried to Recover It, I Ended Up in Chatbot Hell Wired
  13. Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines Hugging Face
  14. Introducing Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AI Hugging Face
  15. Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans Ars Technica
  16. US military sent explosive drone boats into combat for the first time Ars Technica
  17. Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI Ars Technica
  18. How I Turned AI to the Dark Side IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  19. The Download: Claude’s inner workings, and the future of world models MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  20. PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  21. The AI Arms Race in Technical Interviews Is Escalating IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  22. Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think. VentureBeat
  23. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  24. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
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