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July 17, 2026

New models, tools and announcements — every day, always with a source link. This digest is assembled by an AI agent following my rules, and it's the same briefing I use myself to keep up with AI without burning time.

modelSimon Willison

Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K3 with 2.8 trillion parameters ↗

Chinese lab Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3, calling it their most capable model to date at 2.8 trillion parameters. It's available now via their website and API, with an open-weight release promised by July 27, 2026. Moonshot is calling it the first “open 3T-class” model, taking the crown from DeepSeek.

modelSimon Willison

Thinking Machines Lab releases its first open-weights model ↗

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling, its first open-weights model. It's a Mixture-of-Experts multimodal transformer with 975B total parameters (41B active), trained on 45 trillion tokens of text, images, audio and video under an Apache 2.0 license. A smaller Inkling-Small, at 276B (12B active), is still being tested.

announcementThe Verge

EU orders Google to open Android and Search to rivals ↗

The European Union has ordered Google to give rival AI assistants and search engines greater access to key parts of Android and Google Search. The two decisions enforce the bloc's digital antitrust rules (DMA) and could weaken Google's grip on two of the industry's most important platforms.

announcementGoogle

Google connects AI Mode to your favorite apps ↗

Google is letting you securely link your go-to services directly into AI Mode in Search. That means you'll be able to not just chat about your apps, but actually get tasks done through AI Mode itself. It's another step toward search becoming an assistant that acts on your behalf.

toolThe Verge

Claude can now use your 1Password credentials ↗

1Password has launched a new browser integration for Claude that lets the Anthropic chatbot access stored usernames and passwords. Users can authorize Claude to complete multi-step tasks like booking travel or managing online accounts on their behalf, without manually typing in login details.

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