AI News for July 9, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, an 'Opus-class' coding model at half the price: SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, its first model trained specifically for coding and agents and the first product of its $60 billion Cursor acquisition.
[TOOLS] OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice model that listens and talks at once: OpenAI released GPT-Live, a pair of voice models that can listen and speak simultaneously, replacing ChatGPT's turn-based Advanced Voice Mode.
[NEWS] Commerce Dept clearance reveals GPT-5.6 was held back by a government review: OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launch was delayed by a Commerce Department review, not just internal readiness.
[NEWS] Meta tests 'Super Sensing' glasses that record all day without the LED light: Meta is prototyping always-on smart glasses that continuously capture audio and snap photos every few seconds, letting wearers later ask Meta AI to recall anything they saw or heard.
[NEWS] SambaNova once eyed a $1.6B Intel buyout before its $1B raise, CEO now leaning IPO: New detail on SambaNova's $1 billion raise: the round, led by General Atlantic, is only the first close of a Series F with more investors expected to join in the coming weeks, and it followed acquisition talks with Intel late last year at a valuation of roughly $1.6 billion that SambaNova walked away from to pursue independent funding.
[RESEARCH] Mistral enters robotics with Robostral Navigate, an 8B single-camera model: Mistral unveiled Robostral Navigate, its first robot navigation model, an 8-billion-parameter system that steers robots through complex environments using only a single RGB camera.
[NEWS] Lovable in talks to double valuation to $13.2B: Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion valuation, exactly double the $6.6 billion it hit last December, with Menlo Ventures expected to lead.
[NEWS] Meta breaks ground on its first Canadian data center, a $9B AI campus: Meta broke ground on a 1-gigawatt, AI-optimized data center in Sturgeon County, Alberta, its first in Canada and 33rd facility worldwide.
[NEWS] MiniMax plans to open-source a 2.7-trillion-parameter model this year: Chinese AI developer MiniMax is building a 2.7-trillion-parameter model it plans to release as open source, which would be larger than any Chinese model on the market.
[RESEARCH] 'GitLost' prompt injection tricked GitHub's AI agent into leaking private repos: Noma Labs disclosed a critical vulnerability in GitHub's new Agentic Workflows that let an unauthenticated attacker silently pull data from private repositories.

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