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Wednesday, July 8, 2026
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★ Must Read[AINews] Lilian Weng summarizes 35 papers on Harness Engineering for RSI

a quiet day lets us read some condensed insight

OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company
WIRED AI

Joshua Achiam spent nearly nine years at OpenAI researching AI safety and made a memorable appearance in the Musk v. Altman trial.

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Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet
TechCrunch AI

Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle.

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★ Must ReadImport AI 464: Fable writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computation

Is this the beginning of a new world?

Fintech: Robinhood launches Eth chain for Stock tokens

Lex Fridman — Fintech: Robinhood launches Eth chain for Stock tokens

How to Squeeze AI Tools to Get the Most Out of Every Dollar

Use AI, yes, but be smart about it

Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video

sqlite-utils 4. 0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.

The State of the Open Frontier

Tracking the gap between open and closed models at the frontier

From self-improving agents to self-improving robots

Nvidia's ASPIRE and the new era of self-improving AI frameworks are drastically reducing token costs and deployment friction for real-world robotics applications.

★ Must Read[AINews] The Field Guide to Fable

a quiet day lets us digest the world's most significant model launch... to date.

Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos
Lucas Ropek, TechCrunch AI
OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company
Maxwell Zeff, WIRED AI
in the coming weeks.
Stevie Bonifield, The Verge AI