Moonshot AI Launches 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Kimi K3

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 through its website, applications, and API, describing it as a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with native vision and a one-million-token context window. Its sparse architecture activates 16 of 896 experts during inference.

The company says K3 remains behind the strongest proprietary systems overall. Its benchmark and efficiency figures are predominantly company-reported, while full weights and a technical report are due by July 27.

Featured source: Simon Willison , Moonshot AI .

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EU Court Narrows YouTube’s Liability Shield for Reviewed Partner Channels

The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that a platform cannot rely on the EU hosting-liability exemption for content on a commercially partnered channel when it examined the channel’s theme, videos, or metadata and therefore knew the content at issue. The interpretation arose from a 2022 Italian fine over gambling promotions on YouTube; Italy’s Council of State still has to decide Google’s appeal.

Filed from: The Register , Reuters .

National Academies Finds Climate-Attribution Science Has Strengthened

A National Academies report says improved models, observations, statistical methods, and physical understanding have made extreme-event attribution more robust over the past decade. Confidence is strongest for temperature and rainfall extremes and lower for hazards such as wildfires and severe storms, with historical-data gaps particularly limiting work in the Global South.

Filed from: Ars Technica , National Academies .

Proposed U.S. Grant Rules Draw More Than 500,000 Comments

A proposed Office of Management and Budget rule would revise federal grant administration, including when awards can be terminated and whether grant funds may pay open-access publication fees. The docket has received more than 500,000 comments; The Planetary Society argues that the changes would weaken peer review, restrict scientific publication, and expose research awards to political control, but the rule has not been adopted.

Filed from: The Verge , OMB proposal , Planetary Society comment .

Ransomware Incident Suspends Fairlife Production in the United States

Coca-Cola disclosed that ransomware-related unauthorized access reached systems at its Fairlife dairy subsidiary, including production systems. Fairlife temporarily suspended U.S. production; Coca-Cola said Canadian production and product quality and safety were unaffected, while its investigation remains open and no restoration date has been given.

Filed from: TechCrunch , Coca-Cola filing .

Linus Torvalds Rejects a Blanket Ban on AI Tools in Linux Development

Linus Torvalds told Linux contributors that AI-assisted work should be judged on technical merit rather than prohibited categorically during a mailing-list dispute about automated review. The discussion centered on Sashiko, whose maintainers report a 53.6 percent bug-detection rate in a retrospective test of 1,000 upstream fixes; that result and an under-20-percent false-positive estimate are project-reported, with the latter based on limited manual review.

Filed from: Ars Technica , Torvalds on LKML , Sashiko .

Netflix Says Generative-AI Workflows Reached Roughly 300 Titles

Netflix told shareholders that generative-AI workflows were used in roughly 300 titles during 2026, mostly in post-production. It cited enhanced crowds, historical battle sequences, and establishing shots in several productions; the total and efficiency claims are company-reported.

Filed from: The Verge , Netflix shareholder letter .

Puter Compiles Firefox’s Gecko Engine to WebAssembly

Puter published an experimental port that compiles Firefox’s Gecko engine to WebAssembly, allowing the browser interface and renderer to run inside another browser tab. Networking passes through a Puter-hosted Wisp proxy, and the project says its JavaScript-to-WebAssembly JIT remains unusable on many sites.

Filed from: Simon Willison , Puter , repository .

BP Sells Most of Its Venture Portfolio to Verdane

BP agreed to sell a majority of its corporate-venture portfolio, covering more than 10 companies, to Nordic private-equity firm Verdane. BP expects the transaction to close in the second quarter of 2027 and will retain a small number of investments, but disclosed neither the financial terms nor the holdings it plans to keep.

Filed from: TechCrunch , BP .

Trump Media Plans a Low-Latency Truth Social Data Feed

Trump Media says Truth API will give business customers continuous access to posts from influential Truth Social accounts, with delivery in milliseconds and an archive extending to 2022. The licensed feed is scheduled for August 1, though pricing was not disclosed and its latency, launch, and revenue expectations are company-reported.

Filed from: The Verge .

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NotebookLM Becomes Gemini Notebook and Adds Code Execution

Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and began giving notebooks a secure cloud computer for source-grounded code execution. The feature is available to Google AI Ultra users and eligible Workspace customers, with a Pro rollout planned over the coming weeks; notebook syncing is also reaching the Gemini app, with Search integration planned later.

Filed from: Google .

Microsoft Releases Comic Chat’s Source Code

Microsoft released the source of Comic Chat, the 1996 IRC client that rendered conversations as illustrated panels and helped introduce Comic Sans. The repository contains original snapshots and experimental modernization work for current Visual Studio versions, modern IRC servers, and high-resolution displays rather than a polished rerelease.

Filed from: Microsoft Open Source .