Week 3, Jul 2026
product updates
Codex:
Sub-Agent Prompts Now Encrypted
models
Kimi K3:
Open Frontier Intelligence
Inkling:
Open-Weights Model
Qwen 3.8:
New Release
Bonsai 27B:
Phone-Capable 27B-Class Model
Speech Recognition and TTS:
Under 500kb
top-rated papers
Harness Handbook: Making Evolving Agent Harnesses Readable,Navigable, and Editable
LongStraw: Long-Context RL Beyond 2M Tokens under a Fixed GPU Budget
VideoChat3: Fully Open Video MLLM for Efficient and Generalist Video Understanding
tools
Grok Build:
Now Open Source
community
Transcribe.cpp:
C++ Transcription Tool
Claude Code:
Now Uses Rust-Written Bun
Apple SpeechAnalyzer API:
Benchmarks vs Whisper