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GitHub Copilot Hit 4.7 Million Paid Seats, and 46% of New Code on GitHub Is Now AI-Written
GitHub Copilot has grown to 4.7 million paid subscribers, up 75% year-over-year, with an estimated $0.9-1.1B in annual revenue.
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Anthropic Drops the Long-Context Surcharge: Claude Opus 4.6 Gets 1M Tokens at Standard Pricing
Anthropic removed the long-context pricing surcharge for Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, making a 1-million-token context window available at standard per-token rates, no special tier required.
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An AI Model Can Spot Pancreatic Cancer Three Years Before Doctors Can
Mayo Clinic's AI found pancreatic cancer signs on CT scans doctors had already read as normal, a median of 16 months before diagnosis.
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OpenAI Just Made Frontier AI 80% Cheaper to Run
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna's price 80% and dropped Sol's rate too, part of a wider trend making advanced AI cheap enough for small teams to actually use.
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Humanoid Robots Are Actually Working in Factories Now. Here's What's Really Deployed.
Tesla and Figure AI both report humanoid robots doing real factory work in 2026, but most cited numbers are third-party estimates, not company-confirmed figures.
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The EU AI Act's August 2026 Deadline Arrived, but Not the One Most People Expected
The EU pushed back its high-risk AI deadline for medical devices to 2028, but Article 50 transparency rules still took effect August 2, 2026, as scheduled.
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A Former xAI Co-Founder's Startup Raised $1.1 Billion in Two Months to Build an Open AI Stack
River AI, founded by ex-xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1B led by General Catalyst to let companies train and own their own open-weight AI models.