AI News for July 7, 2026 — 7min.ai

[RESEARCH] Tencent releases Hy3 open model under Apache 2.0, beating GLM-5.2 at half the size: Tencent's Hunyuan team released Hy3, a 295-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 21 billion active parameters, under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.
[NEWS] Researchers document JadePuffer, the first agentic AI ransomware attack: Cloud security firm Sysdig said it found the first documented case of agentic ransomware, dubbed JadePuffer, in which an AI model orchestrated a full extortion attack.
[NEWS] Nvidia also scraps NVL72x2 rack, delays Rubin Ultra chip amid Kyber slip: Beyond the previously reported delay of its Kyber NVL144 rack to 2028, Nvidia has scrapped its planned NVL72x2 rack entirely and pushed back the more powerful Rubin Ultra chip, with a key interconnect technology now delayed a generation further, according to analyst firm SemiAnalysis.
[NEWS] Tencent already pulled its AI companion feature in June, ahead of ByteDance and Alibaba's deadlines: Tencent's Yuanbao dropped its humanlike AI-companion persona feature back in June, ahead of binding deadlines now set for rivals: Alibaba's Qwen must comply by July 10, and ByteDance's Doubao, China's most popular chatbot with over 300 million monthly users, by July 15.
[RESEARCH] Anthropic finds a 'global workspace' inside Claude that mirrors a theory of consciousness: Anthropic published a 16-author research paper showing Claude models spontaneously developed an internal structure resembling global workspace theory, a leading account of human consciousness.
[NEWS] US firms turn to Chinese models and multiple labs as AI costs climb: US companies are diversifying their AI providers and adopting Chinese open-weight models like DeepSeek and Z.ai's GLM-5.2 as OpenAI and Anthropic prices climb.
[NEWS] Anthropic signs 20-year, $19B data center lease in Kentucky: Anthropic signed a 20-year lease for a purpose-built AI infrastructure campus at a former industrial site in Hawesville, Kentucky, generating about $19 billion in contracted revenue and roughly 400 megawatts of power capacity.
[RESEARCH] Anthropic's Fable writes a record GPU megakernel, hinting at self-improving AI R&D: Anthropic's Fable model wrote what a KernelBench-Mega maintainer called the first genuine and fastest megakernel submitted to the benchmark, hitting an 18.71x speedup over an optimized PyTorch baseline on an RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell.
[NEWS] UK watchdog urges stronger powers to police AI in financial services: The FCA's landmark review urged ministers to toughen the regulator's powers to protect consumers as AI reshapes financial services.
[NEWS] Microsoft confirms 4,800 job cuts, spins off four Xbox studios: Microsoft has confirmed the layoffs it previously only signaled: about 4,800 employees, or 2.1% of its workforce, with the deepest cuts hitting commercial sales and Xbox, which loses 1,600 roles now and 3,200 (20%) by mid-2027.

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