TLDR

TLDR AI 2026-07-16

Thinking Machines Inkling 🧠, GPT-Red πŸ”’, Perplexity sandboxes πŸ›‘οΈ

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Headlines & Launches

Thinking Machines Releases First Open Model (12 minute read)

Secure Sandboxes for Agents (4 minute read)

Anthropic moves closer to mega-IPO as bankers line up investor meetings (3 minute read)

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Deep Dives & Analysis

Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn't (5 minute read)

The first experimental evidence of recursive self-improvement (3 minute read)

How OpenAI's Sol Finally Learned Design Taste (8 minute read)

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Engineering & Research

Extending Zero Trust principles for the agentic era (Sponsor)

Grok Build Coding Agent (GitHub Repo)

GPT-Red for Safety Testing (5 minute read)

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Miscellaneous

NVIDIA Expanded Jetson Thor for Edge Robotics (3 minute read)

The Powerhouse of the AI Chip (6 minute read)

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Quick Links

The $110/month self-improving pipeline (5 minute read)

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