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I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad · Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman

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    I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for July 25, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap Ars Technica
  2. Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star The Verge
  3. Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage TechCrunch
  4. Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer Ars Technica
  5. You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore The Verge
  6. The quest to keep organs alive outside the body MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  7. Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities The Verge
  8. Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant The Verge
  9. Anthropic launches Opus 5 TechCrunch
  10. Silicon Valley Is Completely Divided Over Chinese AI Wired
  11. AI firms want more data centers; Trump's EPA may give neighbors less say Ars Technica
  12. The Download: an organ transplant breakthrough, and homegrown Chinese chips MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  13. Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool Wired
  14. Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending Wired
  15. Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement” MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  16. NASA Puts Google’s Gemma Large Language Model in Orbit IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  17. The Download: energy transmission and US threats against Chinese AI MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  18. Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers Hugging Face
  19. The State of Simulation for Physical AI: An Overview Hugging Face
  20. Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient” IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  21. Chinese AI Model Uses Less Muscle for Coding Tasks IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  22. Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data Hugging Face
  23. How to Make an Invisible Drone IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  24. Newer Models, Same Advantage Hugging Face
  25. Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think. VentureBeat
  26. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
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