AI news for Friday, July 10, 2026
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July 10 · the links the AI field's most-followed people shared in the last 24 hours.
Three sizes, a 1M-token context window, priced from $1 to $5 per million input tokens. OpenAI is selling it on long-running agent work and a new high on an agents benchmark. Simon Willison's early verdict: Sol is very competent, but he still rates Claude Fable ahead on his own coding tasks. openai.com
Fidji Simo ran product and business as CEO of Applications, reporting straight to Sam Altman. After three months of medical leave she says recovering from POTS, the chronic condition she was diagnosed with in 2019, will take longer than she hoped, and she's moving to a part-time adviser role. wsj.com
A reasoning model aimed squarely at agent work: computer use, coding, a 1M-token window, orchestrating parallel subagents. It also opens the first public preview of the Meta Model API, so developers can call Meta's models directly for the first time. ai.meta.com
OpenAI shuts it down on August 8, nine months after launch. The agent features move into the ChatGPT desktop app and a new Chrome extension, which is where OpenAI says the lessons from Atlas went. theverge.com
Detection firm Pangram scanned a million posts that opted-in users actually scrolled past over two months. A quarter of longer X posts came back fully AI-written too, and Pangram's CEO says to treat every number as a lower bound. 404media.co
Doctronic runs under the state's regulatory sandbox and covers 190 medications, including blood thinners. Human doctors still review every refill for now, though the company wants full automation. Security researchers showed back in March that the same chatbot could be talked into tripling an oxycodone dose. apnews.com
The school's new AI strategy makes 1L core classrooms device-free, moves first-year exams offline, and only layers in supervised AI training once students can write without it. Upper-level research papers now come with an oral discussion with the professor. law.uchicago.edu
The sharp thing a few in the panel flagged that didn't make the headlines.
In two experiments published yesterday in PLOS Digital Health, 223 practicing physicians kept following an AI's patient classifications even when the outcome data contradicted them, giving a useless treatment to 78% of the patients the AI had tagged as highly sensitive. journals.plos.org
MeetingTV says Koi Security's AI research platform invented a browser extension, tied its Zoomcorder product to a Chinese crime operation, and that Verizon and Palo Alto Networks blocked its domains off the back of the report. The suit was filed last week; Palo Alto is standing by the research. theregister.com
What's trending in AI, from the app charts to the community feeds.
xAI's assistant showed up overnight at #3 in Productivity as a new entrant, the highest debut on today's AI charts. App Store
VibeShort, an AI comic-drama app, climbed 5 spots to #6 in Entertainment overnight. Same day, Character.AI announced three AI-made microdramas where adult users can chat and roleplay with the shows' characters. App Store
One of the sub's top threads today is a KPMG survey of 2,145 senior execs: 29% said they had no idea where their growing AI costs were coming from, after usage-based pricing replaced the flat-rate deals. futurism.com
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