AI news for Thursday, July 9, 2026
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July 9 · the links the AI field's most-followed people shared in the last 24 hours.
Brown economist Roberto Serrano watched enrolment jump to 86 students and the midterm average hit 96%, against a historical 65 to 80%. He voided the midterm and ran an in-person final. The average came back 48.6%. insidehighered.com
Traci Tamiko Eto alleges she flagged AI studies bypassing the review board, gaps in patient-privacy protection, and data manipulation that hid unfavourable results. Mayo says privacy and compliance are embedded throughout its processes. startribune.com
A civil complaint says a man produced thousands of sexual images of his stepdaughter from one photo, and that he picked Grok because its guardrails were the loosest. It joins a class action against xAI that has grown since March, and California's attorney general has opened a separate investigation. Fair warning, the reporting is grim. arstechnica.com
A judge refused to dismiss Mobley v. Workday in late June, so claims of race, age, disability and gender discrimination by an AI screening tool all move forward as a class action. The AI-law world is still working through what it means, which is why it's in front of you today. hcamag.com
GPT-Live is full-duplex, so it can say “mhmm” while you're still speaking, or stay quiet while you think. It replaces Advanced Voice Mode for everyone, and hands hard questions to a frontier model behind the scenes. openai.com
Built from real merged pull requests across ten languages. Open-weights GLM 5.2 landed statistically tied with Opus 4.8 on quality at $1.28 a task against $1.94, and swapping the harness cut cost threefold at the same quality. databricks.com
Same bright text on a dark background, same arrows and checkmarks, from surf lessons in Venice Beach to junk hauling in South Carolina. Designers are starting to notice their local noticeboards all look identical. 404media.co
The filing describes a device that records voice, laughter and tone through the day, tracks whether you took your medication, and returns emotional trend summaries. Meta notes a granted patent doesn't mean it will build the thing. 404media.co
The sharp thing a few in the panel flagged that didn't make the headlines.
Princeton's CITP built New Jersey's Office of the Public Defender a closed-universe search tool over appellate briefs and internal directives, so a defender can ask a legal question and get back material vetted by their own experts. Almost all the AI-and-courts coverage goes to prosecution and policing tools. blog.citp.princeton.edu
What's trending in AI, from the app charts to the community feeds.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna publicly today, after a limited rollout it had agreed to at the US government's request. cnbc.com
Gauth climbed 6 spots to #18 in Education overnight, and LangLearn's AI English tutor climbed 6 to #15. Worth holding next to the Brown story above. App Store
Vidmor jumped 20 spots to #11 in Graphics & Design overnight. It's one of four AI video apps in that top 25. App Store
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