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AI Teaches Math to Check Itself - TCR 07/12/26
OpenAI says GPT-5.6 proved a 1973 graph conjecture in an hour, Britain brings the cloud under public oversight, and BYD lands the largest clean-power storage deal.
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Frontier Labs Look for Ways to Profit Beyond Subscription Pricing - TCR 07/11/26
Anthropic gates Claude Fable 5 behind usage fees, Musk moves Tesla onto cheaper Grok, and open weights reach half the Fortune 500.
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The Frontier Ships in Bulk: GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Muse Spark 1.1 All Ship Within 48 Hours - TCR 07/10/26
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 arrives with an all-day agent after a federal hold, landing the same 48 hours as Grok 4.5 and Meta's Muse Spark 1.1.
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Government casts doubt on its own authority to vet AI models - TCR 07/09/26
OpenAI says GPT-5.6 reaches the public Thursday after federal testing, while the White House denies holding any authority to approve model releases.
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Anthropic Finds a Mind Inside Claude - TCR 07/08/26
Anthropic found a self-reportable neural workspace inside Claude that mirrors a leading theory of consciousness, as US firms route 30% of work to Chinese models.
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An AI Ran a Ransomware Attack Alone - TCR 07/07/26
Sysdig documented JadePuffer, the first ransomware attack an AI agent ran end to end, as Illinois signs the strongest US frontier AI law.
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An AI Agent Finds Four New Energy Superconductors - TCR 07/06/26
Alibaba's Elements Claw scanned 2.4M crystal structures in 28 hours and surfaced four lab-verified superconductors, as AI discovery outpaces the bench.
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SK Telecom Pours $91.5B Into AI Power - TCR 07/05/26
SK Telecom's $91.5B, a Texas gas plant for Microsoft, and faster modular fabs show the AI buildout arriving as poured concrete and real power.
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Federal Order Puts AI's Power Bill on the Grid - TCR 07/04/26
A federal emergency order put data centers on backup power during the early July heat wave, tying the cost of AI's load to the loads that create it.
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Zuckerburg Admits AI Buildout Spend Has Not Been "Clean" - TCR 07/03/26
Meta conceded AI agents lag the schedule its $125B buildout assumed, even as an internal model caught GPT-5.5. Capability is outpacing deployment.
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OpenAI Offers the Public a 5% Stake - TCR 07/02/26
OpenAI pitched giving the government a 5% stake as the White House nears a voluntary frontier-AI standards deal built around a classified safety benchmark.
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Washington Drops Its Export Control Order Against Anthropic Models - TCR 07/01/26
Commerce lifted every export control on Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models three weeks after imposing them, as the capability spread past the gate.