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2026-07-12Sources: Cursor is building a general-purpose AI agent codenamed Sand, aimed at non-developers, that handles emails, texts, and documents to rival Claude Cowork (Grace Kay/The Information)
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2026-07-12OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI may be able to put pressure on Anthropic by emphasizing cost efficiency, as business customers increasingly scrutinize AI spending (Bloomberg)
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2026-07-12Anthropic says it is "extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19" (The Economic Times)
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2026-07-12Sources: Apple is already taping out M7 with major NPU upgrades, and plans M7 Ultra with 1.5TB RAM, and M8, for 2028; new Pencils are coming with a new iPad Pro (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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2026-07-12AI coding tool users are flooding open-source projects with low-quality contributions, overwhelming maintainers and potentially eroding community engagement (Sam Learner/Financial Times)
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2026-07-12A look at the growing anti-AI movement in the Bay Area, as the disappearance of Sam Kirchner, co-founder of a hard-line activist group, has the movement on edge (Zusha Elinson/Wall Street Journal)
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2026-07-12AirDNA: during the FIFA World Cup group stage, platforms such as Airbnb saw 52K+ new listings in US host cities, while hotel bookings fell short of expectations (Financial Times)
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2026-07-12NYC-based Vendelux, a live B2B event information platform for CMOs and marketing and sales teams, raised a $50M Series B led by Tribeca Venture Partners (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
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2026-07-12EU Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath says the EC is set to propose new digital rules by year-end aimed at protecting consumers from online spending traps (Laura Dubois/Financial Times)
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2026-07-12A look at Bending Spoons' hiring process: the company, which owns Vimeo, AOL, and Evernote, received 800,000 job applications last year and made only 286 hires (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
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