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Fidji Simo steps down from full-time OpenAI role amid chronic illness
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of Applications and its No. 2 executive, is leaving her full-time role for a part-time advisor post, citing a chronic illness.
Jul 10, 2026
OpenAI discontinues standalone ChatGPT Atlas browser, folds agentic browsing into ChatGPT desktop
OpenAI will retire its standalone ChatGPT Atlas browser on August 9, moving agentic browsing into ChatGPT desktop, a Chrome extension and a cloud browser.
Jul 10, 2026
News organizations ask judge to sanction OpenAI over alleged evidence destruction
A coalition of news organizations led by The New York Times asked a Manhattan federal judge on July 9 to sanction OpenAI, alleging it hid and destroyed discovery evidence.
Jul 9, 2026
Tencent's open-weight Hy3 model surges up Hugging Face's trending charts
Tencent's Hy3, an open-weight 295-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model released July 6, surged up Hugging Face's trending charts on July 9, three days after launch.
Jul 9, 2026
Mercor acquires a16z-backed Deeptune to build AI-agent training environments
Mercor, the $10 billion AI data-labeling company, is acquiring a16z-backed Deeptune, which builds simulation environments where AI agents practice software tasks before touching production systems.
Jul 9, 2026
Mercor is reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $20 billion
AI training-data startup Mercor is in early talks to raise funding at a $20 billion valuation, double the $10 billion it reached in October 2025.
Jul 9, 2026
Mistral adds version control for prompts and skills in Mistral Studio
Mistral AI added version control for prompts and skills in Mistral Studio on July 9, giving them version history, rollback and audit trails.
Jul 9, 2026
xAI launches Grok 4.5, undercutting Anthropic on coding-agent price
xAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8, 2026, its first model since SpaceX's $60 billion Cursor acquisition, priced to undercut rival coding agents.
Jul 9, 2026
Bun rewrote its runtime from Zig to Rust in 11 days using 64 Claude instances
Bun disclosed that one engineer used about 64 parallel Claude instances to rewrite its runtime from Zig to Rust in 11 days for roughly $165,000.
Jul 9, 2026
Meta reportedly plans to start production of its Iris AI chip in September
An internal Meta memo reportedly says the company will begin production of its in-house Iris AI chip in September 2026.
Jul 9, 2026
OpenAI moves GPT-5.6 to general availability across ChatGPT, API and Codex
OpenAI began rolling out its three-tier GPT-5.6 family — Sol, Terra and Luna — across ChatGPT, the API and Codex on July 9, 2026.
Jul 9, 2026
Micron lifts planned US chip investment to more than $250 billion through 2035
Micron said on July 9, 2026 it will raise US chip investment to more than $250 billion through 2035, up from $200 billion.
Jul 9, 2026