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July 9, 2026

11 curated links on AI agents, Python, security, Google Cloud, and engineering, selected by Médéric Hurier.

  1. Introducing Grok 4.5

    x.ai

    SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, its most intelligent model ever trained alongside Cursor, specifically optimized to excel at coding, agentic tasks, and software engineering.

  2. Introducing GPT-Live

    openai.com

    OpenAI has introduced GPT-Live, including GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, a new generation of low-latency voice models designed for highly lifelike and responsive interactions that now power ChatGPT Voice.

  3. Gemma 4 Technical Report

    arxiv.org

    Google has released Gemma 4, a new generation of open-weight, natively multimodal dense and Mixture-of-Experts models ranging from 2.3B to 31B parameters featuring a thinking mode and improved efficiency.

  4. Introducing Muse Image and Muse Video

    ai.meta.com

    Meta has launched Muse Image and previewed Muse Video, its first media generation models developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs that feature agentic tool use, self-refinement, and native audio support.

  5. Robostral Navigate: single-camera AI navigation

    mistral.ai

    Mistral AI has introduced Robostral Navigate, an 8B parameters model designed for single-camera AI navigation that achieves 76.6% on R2R-CE benchmarks without requiring depth sensors, LiDAR, or multiple cameras.

  6. A global workspace in language models

    anthropic.com

    Anthropic researchers have discovered a "J-space" within Claude's internal neural activations that acts as a global workspace for silent, flexible reasoning and can be monitored or edited to trace a model's hidden thoughts and intents.

  7. How to deploy an AI agent to Cloud Run (step by step)

    youtube.com

    Google Cloud Tech has released a step-by-step video tutorial explaining how developers can build and deploy containerized AI agents to Cloud Run.

  8. Facing US export controls, China's DeepSeek plans to make its own chips

    arstechnica.com

    China's DeepSeek is planning to develop its own in-house data center chips for AI inference to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei, following a year of engineering recruitment and partner discussions.

  9. Microsoft Replaces OpenAI, Anthropic With Own AI in Some Apps

    bloomberg.com

    Microsoft has begun replacing certain OpenAI and Anthropic AI features in Excel and Outlook with its own in-house MAI models to reduce high API licensing costs, according to Bloomberg.

  10. Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say

    reuters.com

    Chinese authorities have held meetings with major tech firms, including Alibaba and ByteDance, to discuss restricting international access to China's most advanced proprietary and open-weight AI models.

  11. Claude is definitely not conscious...

    youtube.com

    Fireship has released a video breaking down Anthropic's J-space interpretability paper and evaluating whether Claude exhibits signs of machine consciousness.