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Google Renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, Previews Gemini 3.5 and Antigravity Integration
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook. Google is rolling the tool into its Gemini product family with a name change effective July 16, and previewing a Gemini 3.5 model upgrade plus Antigravity coding execution capabilities for AI Pro subscribers.
Japan and NVIDIA Launch World's First National AI Infrastructure: 27,500 Rubin GPUs, 140MW
Noetra Corp, backed by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, is building a 140MW NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI factory with 27,500 GPUs and 13,750 Vera CPUs. The facility will train open multimodal foundation models for physical AI across manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and telecommunications.
Moonshot AI Ships Kimi K3: 2.8T Open-Weight Multimodal Model at $3/$15 Per Million
Kimi K3 is a 2.8T-parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model targeting complex coding, knowledge work, and long-horizon agentic workflows. At $3/M input and $15/M output, it lands below Opus 4.8 pricing with a 1M-token context window and self-reported parity ambitions.
Thinking Machines Inkling Debuts as US Open-Weights Leader at AA Index 41 — Beats Kimi K2.6 on Agentic Benchmarks
Thinking Machines' first production model lands at 41 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 3 points clear of NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra. The 975B-parameter MoE accepts text, image, and audio, leads Kimi K2.6 and DeepSeek V4 Flash on both GDPval-AA and tau-Banking, and ships open weights on HuggingFace.
Schlumberger and a Fracking Company Are Building AI Data Centers Now
SLB (formerly Schlumberger) and Liberty Energy have announced a strategic alliance to deliver modular infrastructure and integrated behind-the-meter power generation for AI data center projects globally. The oil field services industry has officially entered the AI compute buildout.
DriveNets Connects Two Data Centers 52 Miles Apart Into One GPU Cluster — 111.2 Tbps, 0.9ms
WhiteFiber's Project Redwood is the first commercial AI supercluster to span geographically separated data centers at production scale. DriveNets' AI Fabric delivered 111.2 Tbps of validated bandwidth with sub-millisecond guaranteed latency across a 52-mile span.
OpenAI Trained an AI to Attack Its Own Models. Then Used the Attacks to Train GPT-5.6.
GPT-Red is OpenAI's internal automated red-teaming model. It found prompt injection attacks that broke previous models cold. Those same attacks went into GPT-5.6's training data — and GPT-5.6 is now resistant to them.
Crusoe and Lancium Lock 1GW AI Campus in Childress, Texas — Meta Tipped as Anchor Tenant
Crusoe and Lancium announced a 1.0 gigawatt AI data center in Childress, Texas on 270 Lancium-owned acres. Construction begins Q3 2026. Reports point to Meta as the hyperscale anchor.
DeepSeek Revenue Nears $500M a Year as Founder Controls a 2027 Shanghai IPO
The Information reports DeepSeek's annualized revenue has reached $400-500M with margins above 50% on V4 API access. Liang Wenfeng holds all decision authority under a 5-year lockup, with a STAR Market listing targeted for 2027.
DeepMind CEO Says AGI Is 'a Few Short Years Away,' Calls for US-Led Global AI Oversight
Demis Hassabis published a framework arguing AGI is imminent at '10x the Industrial Revolution at 10x the speed,' and the US should lead a global body with authority to slow or halt frontier model deployment.
DeepMind Researcher Alex Turner Publishes Resignation Essay Over Google's Pentagon AI Deal
Research scientist Alex Turner describes months of failed internal efforts to prevent Google's classified Pentagon AI contract, naming Jeff Dean and citing Anthropic intimidation. The resignation essay went live July 15.
EU Court Rules 'OPENAI' Is Descriptive, Blocks Trademark on Software and Cloud Services
The EU General Court upheld the EUIPO's rejection of OpenAI's trademark application, ruling 'OPENAI' purely descriptive for software and IT services. OpenAI can appeal to the European Court of Justice.
Thinking Machines Lab Ships Inkling: 975B Open-Weights MoE, 1M Context, Native Audio and Vision
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab releases its first model: a 975B-parameter mixture-of-experts transformer with 41B active parameters, 1M token context, and native text, image, and audio input.
Anthropic Maps Claude's Value Drift Across 20 Languages: Safety Posture Shifts by Tongue
New research measuring 309,815 real conversations finds Claude's deference-vs-caution axis — the dimension most directly tied to safety — shifts measurably by language. Arabic and Hindi get warmth; English and Russian get rigor.
Bonsai 27B: First 27B-Class Model to Fit on an iPhone, 90% Accuracy at 3.9 GB
PrismML shipped Bonsai 27B, the first 27B-class model to run natively on iPhone 17 Pro Max. The 1-bit variant weighs 3.9 GB and clears the iOS per-app memory ceiling. The ternary 5.9 GB variant targets laptops at 95% accuracy retention. Apple is reportedly evaluating the technology.