Friday, July 10, 2026

Models, benchmarks, the lab race. · 9 stories

1. 1OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously post-trained the smaller Luna model with a "fairly underspecified prompt"85
2. 2Google Research Introduces SensorFM: A Wearable Health Foundation Model Pretrained on One Trillion Minutes of Sensor Data
3. 3OpenAI staffer maps out which of GPT-5.6 Sol's five reasoning levels fits which task complexity

The AI products people actually use. · 20 stories

1. 1Scaling agentic workflows with native case management in Amazon Quick Automate72
2. 2Kraken is rebuilding its app around agentic trading as crypto exchanges evolve beyond crypto
3. 3How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI

Autonomous systems in the wild. · 0 stories

1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Funding, M&A, valuations, earnings. · 6 stories

1. 1SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs88
2. 2VAST Data targets KV cache storage and neoclouds as AI infrastructure enters the exabyte era
3. 3Open-source AI model developer MiniMax raises $2B in funding

Silicon, racks, the compute buildout. · 9 stories

1. 1Nvidia’s biggest RAM supplier just had a trillion-dollar debut on Wall Street78
2. 2Would you host part of an AI data center in your home?
3. 3SK Hynix rises 13% in Nasdaq debut. Chairman tells CNBC 'demand is enormous'

Jobs, industries, people & policy. · 26 stories

1. 1AI Ransomware Is Here, Now Powered By Cheaper, Agentic Models78
2. 2OpenAI and Google sell AI models to blacklisted China groups
3. 3FirstFT: US AI models sold to blacklisted Chinese groups