AI News for July 16, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Thinking Machines releases first open model Inkling, a 975B mixture-of-experts: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab shipped Inkling, its first in-house model and an open-weight one that developers can download and fine-tune.
[NEWS] Anthropic lines up investor meetings as mega-IPO nears: Anthropic is seeking meetings with investors ahead of a potential mega-IPO, according to people familiar with the matter, as bankers prepare the company to join the wave of AI-driven stock market debuts.
[NEWS] China approves Apple Intelligence for iPhones with Alibaba and Baidu as partners: The Cyberspace Administration of China granted Apple a long-awaited license to roll out Apple Intelligence, with Alibaba's Qwen model handling the core generative features and Baidu also serving as a local technical partner.
[RESEARCH] OpenAI's GPT-Red uses self-play to attack its own models, finds flaws humans miss: OpenAI built an internal model called GPT-Red that automatically hunts security flaws in GPT models, simulating prompt injections and hidden malicious instructions in emails, websites, and files.
[NEWS] TSMC's Q2 profit jumps 77%, formalizes $265B US buildout pledge: TSMC's actual Q2 results landed well past the preliminary revenue read reported earlier this week: profit surged 77%, beating estimates on booming AI chip demand, and the company lifted both its full-year revenue and capital spending projections, expecting torrid data-center growth to run into 2027.
[NEWS] Microsoft patches record 570 security flaws, crediting AI-powered bug discovery: Microsoft shipped patches for 570 security vulnerabilities across Windows, Office, and other products this Patch Tuesday, a record it attributes to AI helping employees uncover previously hidden bugs.
[NEWS] Indian AI coding startup Emergent hits unicorn status with $130M Series C: Emergent, an AI app-building platform, raised $130 million in a Series C at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, a five-fold jump in six months and one of the few Indian AI companies to reach unicorn status.
[NEWS] Hack reveals Suno scraped millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer, and Genius: Leaked data from a supply-chain breach shows AI music generator Suno trained by scraping millions of songs and lyrics from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound, and podcast RSS feeds.
[TOOLS] OpenAI ships $230 light-up Codex keyboard as it steps into hardware: OpenAI released the Codex Micro, a $230 RGB-lit mini keyboard co-designed with Work Louder for power users of its coding platform.
[RESEARCH] GPT-5.6 Sol disproves a 30-year-old statistics conjecture in 90 minutes: A University of Pennsylvania statistics professor used OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Pro to disprove a long-standing assumption about the Benjamini-Hochberg method, the 1995 procedure that controls false positives across thousands of simultaneous hypothesis tests.

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