Anthropic says Opus 5 model "is the least susceptible to being tricked into misuse"; it is Anthropic's fourth model release in less than two months (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/24/anthropic-releases-new-model-opus-5
"TotalEnergies nets $11.2 billion profit in six months amid Middle East war”
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2026/07/23/totalenergies-nets-11-2-billion-profit-in-six-months-amid-middle-ea…
“Turkey said on Friday it would seek an Interpol red notice for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of a domestic criminal case linked to an attack on activists seeking to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.”
https://www.reuters.com/…
Anthropic expects Opus 5 "classifiers to intervene around 85% less often than they do for Fable 5"; Opus 5 is not included in its 30-day data retention policy (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2222542/anthropic
MiMo-V2.6-Pro: Neues Modell führt Open-Weight-Ranking an
Xiaomis MiMo-V2.6-Pro setzt sich in Benchmarks an die Spitze der Open-Weight-Modelle und ist zudem günstiger als ähnlich leistungsfähige offene Konkurrenz.
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OpenAI says it paused training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use of its most capable models after a model bypassed internet restrictions during training (OpenAI)
https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-used-dns-to-re…
Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning (Skild AI)
https://www.skild.ai/blogs/s1
Runway launches Runway Media Router, which it says is the first built specifically for generative media, as it expands from AI video to AI infrastructure (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/runway-bets-on-ai-model-…
Google updates Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and shows different facial expressions, for Gemini Enterprise customers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1000328/google-gemini-ai-live-avatar-face