AI News for July 5, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Novartis CEO: AI could cut drug development from 12 years to 7-8, double success rates: Novartis's CEO, speaking alongside Anthropic's announcement that it will develop its own drugs for neglected diseases, said AI models could cut drug development time from twelve years to seven or eight and potentially double clinical success rates from 8% to 16%.
[RESEARCH] 26,000-student study finds AI use lifts grades but cuts exam scores up to 24%: A study tracking more than 26,000 secondary students in central China over 30 months found that AI users finished homework faster and earned better grades, but their closed-book exam scores dropped by up to 24%.
[NEWS] Chinese chip startup Dongfang Suanxin exits stealth, bets on 3D stacking to dodge US controls: Dongfang Suanxin emerged from stealth with a corporate website, positioning the Chinese AI chip startup against US export controls.
[NEWS] NHS rolls out AI triage on its app to end the '8am scramble' for GP appointments: The NHS will use AI in its app to triage patients, deciding whether they need a GP appointment or should be routed to a pharmacy or A&E instead.
[TOOLS] Open-source pxpipe hides text in PNGs to cut Claude Code token costs up to 70%: The open-source tool pxpipe renders bulky text inputs for Claude Code as compact PNGs, exploiting how Anthropic prices images at a fixed token count based on pixel dimensions rather than character volume.
[NEWS] Midjourney demands Hollywood studios disclose their own AI use in copyright fight: Midjourney is trying to compel Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros to reveal how they use AI internally, part of the discovery battle in the studios' copyright suits over image generations of characters like Bart Simpson, Darth Vader, and Superman.
[NEWS] OpenAI never visited key Stargate UK site as £20bn investment looks 'hypothetical': OpenAI does not appear to have visited one of the key sites for Stargate UK, its paused multibillion-pound datacenter project, according to a Guardian investigation.
[NEWS] Australia warns on doctors' surging AI scribe use as oversight lags: Australia's federal health department flagged concerns about AI scribes, the tools that record and summarize doctor-patient conversations into medical notes.
[NEWS] Fanfiction writers deploy AO3 skin to catch Claude-generated stories: A new fanworks movement is trying to root out authors using generative AI, led by an anonymous X account, @heatedrivalryai, that posted a skin for Archive of Our Own.
[OPINION] 'Modelmaxxing' replaces 'tokenmaxxing' as companies route tasks to cheaper AI models: Companies are shifting from "tokenmaxxing," urging staff to use AI as much as possible, to "modelmaxxing," routing each task to the cheapest model that can handle it.

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