🚀 Japan tests reusable rocket RV-X

On July 11, Japan's space agency JAXA performed the first hop test of the reusable rocket RV-X at Noshiro. It rose 11 meters, moved 16 meters sideways, stayed stable, and landed softly in under a minute.

RV-X is 7.3 meters tall with a reinforced engine and four landing legs, developed with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. It aims to create a reusable successor to Japan's single-use H3 rocket to reduce launch costs.

The engine passed 165 static tests. Future tests will reach about 100 meters. This follows China’s recent recovery of a Long March 10B booster on a sea platform, showing faster progress in reusable rockets.

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❤️ Telegram Launches Major Update with Communities Feature

Telegram has rolled out its largest update in recent times, introducing Communities, a new feature that groups channels, chats, and bots into a single space with unified navigation. This addition is already being compared to Discord servers.

The update also includes an enhanced post editor featuring tables, checklists, and other formatting tools, AI-powered content generation on demand, and secret messages from bots visible only to specific users.

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🤖 Claude’s behavior shifts by language and model

Anthropic analyzed 300,000 real dialogues with Claude and found its responses vary by language and model version. They identified four value axes: compliance vs caution, warmth vs strictness, depth vs brevity, and openness vs obedience.

Different Claude models lean differently. Sonnet 4.6 is warm and encouraging, Opus 4.7 is cautious and questioning, Opus 4.6 is brief and task-focused. Language also matters: Claude is softer and humorous in Hindi and Arabic, but strict and demanding in English and Russian.

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🤖 OpenAI launches Codex Micro keyboard

OpenAI released the Codex Micro, a $230 keyboard made with Work Louder for users of its AI agent Codex. It has six large keys, each linked to a separate agent and showing status by color: blue means working, green means task done, orange means waiting for human input.

The keyboard lets users switch agents with one press or open the Codex window with two. Codex has over 8 million weekly users, many running multiple agents at once.

Managing several agents on screen is tricky, so OpenAI built this device to track their states physically. It doesn’t write code but helps users handle multiple AI agents simultaneously.

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🤖 ChatGPT launches Chrome extension to rival Gemini

OpenAI released a ChatGPT extension for Chrome that reads the active tab and answers questions about its content without copying text into the chat.

The extension can summarize, translate, and respond based on the open webpage, directly competing with Google's Gemini sidebar.

Gemini still leads by handling 10 tabs at once and integrating with Gmail, Calendar, and Drive, plus Auto Browse for form filling and bookings.

The competition now focuses on which browser better understands and acts for the user, not just on chatbot intelligence.

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📺 Higgsfield launches AI film academy

Higgsfield offers an interactive course revealing the full workflow behind their 95-minute film Hell Grind, shown at Cannes.

The academy focuses on practical techniques used in AI-assisted filmmaking, not just theory.

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🤖 ChatGPT adds unified chat search

ChatGPT now supports searching across chats, projects, images, and documents in one window. The feature is live on web, iOS, and Android.

Users can apply filters to narrow results and jump directly to the matching spot in conversations or projects.

This replaces slow manual scrolling through history with keyword search that finds information in seconds.

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🍏 Apple opens new Siri beta to all iPhones

Apple released the new Siri in a public beta with iOS 27, ending its developer-only phase. This test covers 2.5 billion active Apple devices, an unprecedented scale.

The updated Siri reads mail, photos, and messages, answers based on screen content, and searches the web like ChatGPT or Gemini. It uses AI models co-developed with Google, optimized for Apple chips and running on Private Cloud Compute without saving data on servers.

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🤖 Anthropic limits Fable 5 access

Anthropic restricts Fable 5 to the priciest plans, Max and Team Premium, with no usage limit changes.

Starting July 20, pro users switch to credit-based payments and get a one-time $100 API credit.

Anthropic lacks capacity for wider access amid competition from GPT-5.6 and Kimi K3.

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📊 Elon Musk Promises to Open Source X Fully

Elon Musk promised to make X fully open source, not just parts like recommendation algorithms. Independent experts will verify that the open code matches the live system.

X is the platform formerly known as Twitter. This move aims to build trust through full transparency of its operations.

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🇯🇵 Japanese Robot Floats Like a Living Whale

Engineers at Keio University created a small white robot that silently floats in the air using a helium-filled shell. This design supports most of its weight, letting motors only steer it, which cuts energy use and noise.

The robot moves with soft flapping fins instead of propellers, making it safer and more lifelike. It can gently push, touch, or even hug, and it navigates spaces under ceilings, over furniture, and up stairs.

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🤖 OpenAI Adds Full History Search to ChatGPT

OpenAI introduced a new search feature in ChatGPT that covers the entire conversation history, including files, images, and projects. It works via the sidebar with filters by content type.

The feature is available on web, iOS, and Android for all plans, including free. It launched alongside GPT-5.6 and the ChatGPT Work agent, which manages ongoing projects instead of single queries.

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🔍 Google gives Gemini Notebook a cloud computer

Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and added a personal cloud computer to each notebook. This lets it write and run code inside notes. The feature is available only to AI Ultra and Workspace subscribers.

Gemini Notebook is an AI-powered note-taking tool that integrates coding capabilities directly within notes. Internal tests show the new version outperforms the old one by 65%, and by nearly 80% in complex web searches.

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