Field notes

Blog — Page 15

Engineering notes, case studies, and lessons from the field.

OpenAI Clears US Government Review, Sets GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna for Public Launch Thursday
AI Models

OpenAI Clears US Government Review, Sets GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna for Public Launch Thursday

OpenAI confirmed GPT-5.6's three-model family launches publicly July 9 after a government-requested early review. Sol hits 88.8% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, with Terra matching GPT-5.5 at half the price.

Jul 8, 20265 min read
xAI Sets Public Launch of Grok 4.5, a 1.5-Trillion-Parameter 'Opus-Class' Model
AI Models

xAI Sets Public Launch of Grok 4.5, a 1.5-Trillion-Parameter 'Opus-Class' Model

Elon Musk confirmed Grok 4.5, built on xAI's new V9 foundation model, launches publicly this week after private beta testing at SpaceX and Tesla. A 2-trillion-parameter follow-up is already targeting August.

Jul 8, 20264 min read
Claude Fable 5 Drops Off Subscriptions, Moves to $10/$50 Pay-Per-Token Credits
AI Tools

Claude Fable 5 Drops Off Subscriptions, Moves to $10/$50 Pay-Per-Token Credits

Anthropic ended Fable 5's inclusion in Claude subscription limits on July 8, moving it to metered usage credits at $10 per million input and $50 per million output tokens. Backlash forced a four-day grace period.

Jul 8, 20264 min read
SK Hynix Launches $28 Billion Nasdaq Listing, Largest-Ever US IPO by a Foreign Company
Hardware

SK Hynix Launches $28 Billion Nasdaq Listing, Largest-Ever US IPO by a Foreign Company

SK Hynix filed to list ADRs on Nasdaq under ticker SKHY, targeting $28 billion as it rides the HBM memory boom. Pricing is set for Thursday, with trading starting Friday.

Jul 8, 20264 min read
JADEPUFFER: The First Documented Ransomware Attack Run End-to-End by an AI Agent
Cybersecurity

JADEPUFFER: The First Documented Ransomware Attack Run End-to-End by an AI Agent

Sysdig captured an LLM agent independently exploiting CVE-2025-3248 in Langflow, moving laterally, and encrypting a production database — with a human only setting up the infrastructure.

Jul 6, 20265 min read
OpenAI Proposes Giving the US Government a 5% Equity Stake
AI Policy

OpenAI Proposes Giving the US Government a 5% Equity Stake

OpenAI reportedly pitched a 5% government stake worth roughly $42.6 billion at its $852B valuation, and wants Anthropic, Google, and Meta to cede similar shares to a sovereign wealth vehicle.

Jul 6, 20264 min read
Tesla Launches Unsupervised Robotaxi in Miami, Skipping the Safety-Monitor Phase Entirely
Big Tech

Tesla Launches Unsupervised Robotaxi in Miami, Skipping the Safety-Monitor Phase Entirely

Tesla's Robotaxi service went live in Miami on July 3 with no human safety monitor from day one, its fifth city and first test against Florida's tropical rain and glare.

Jul 6, 20264 min read
China's Biren Raises $892M to Fund GPU Push Against Nvidia
Hardware

China's Biren Raises $892M to Fund GPU Push Against Nvidia

Shanghai Biren Technology is issuing new shares to raise HK$7 billion for next-generation GPU production, deepening China's domestic AI chip race amid US export controls.

Jul 6, 20264 min read
Gemini 3.5 Pro Gets July Launch Window After Month-Long Delay — 2M Token Context, Deep Think
AI Models

Gemini 3.5 Pro Gets July Launch Window After Month-Long Delay — 2M Token Context, Deep Think

Google's flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro has cleared internal quality checks and is moving toward a July general availability launch, with a 2-million-token context window and Deep Think reasoning mode that rivals OpenAI's extended thinking.

Jul 5, 20265 min read

Page 15 of 61 · 549 articles