Morning brief

Wednesday, July 8

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TL;DR Tomorrow shaping up as the biggest model release day this year: OpenAI confirmed GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna go public July 9 after DoC cleared the 30-day govt review, and Musk is dropping Grok 4.5 the same day. Google reportedly scrapped the 2.5 Pro base entirely and is targeting July 17 for a rebuilt Gemini 3.5 Pro.

Models & research

  • model-releases OpenAI confirmed GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna launch publicly on July 9 after the US Department of Commerce cleared the 30-day voluntary review; Sol Fast is priced at $12.5/$75 per Mtok, Terra at $2.5/$15, Luna at $1/$6. Neowin · Engadget

  • model-releases elonmusk announced SpaceXAI is also launching Grok 4.5 on July 9, describing it as “Opus-class” (matching Claude Opus 4.8 while cheaper and faster); built on the new 1.5T-parameter V9 foundation model. Cybernews · Yahoo Finance

  • model-releases Google reportedly targeting July 17 for Gemini 3.5 Pro after scrapping the 2.5 Pro base for a full re-pretrain; targets include 2M token context, a Deep Think Reasoning Layer, and stronger math and SVG generation — but the July 17 date is unconfirmed rumor, not official. TechTimes · BigGo Finance

Tools & dev

  • claude-code Anthropic expanded Claude Cowork to web and mobile (rolling out on Max plan first); sessions and files now saved to your account and accessible cross-device, with remote-hosted beta sessions. TechCrunch · 9to5Mac

  • claude-code Claude Code and Claude Cowork are now in public beta on Claude for Government Desktop, running in a FedRAMP High authorized environment with local conversation history and hard per-agency spend caps. Anthropic

  • dev-tools DeepSeek will retire deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner on July 24 at 15:59 UTC — after that, calls to those model IDs return errors; migrate to deepseek-v4-pro or deepseek-v4-flash on the same base URL and key. DEV Community · byteiota

  • dev-tools Trump administration in final negotiations with OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic on a voluntary 30-day pre-release review framework for frontier models; announcement expected this week and would be the most significant US AI governance move since the 2023 Biden voluntary commitments. White House EO · White House AI standards

OSS

  • oss ai-job-search by MadsLorentzen hit 5,071 GitHub stars today: a Claude Code-based framework where you fork the repo, fill in your profile, and let Claude score jobs, tailor your CV, write cover letters, and prep interviews. GitHub

  • oss claude-video (Python, bradautomates) picked up 948 stars today: ingests video by downloading, extracting frames, and transcribing so Claude can reason over the full clip. GitHub trending