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FrontierAI is reshuffling who does what: almost half of profession-specific tasks come from another professionOn 27 July OpenAI released the first report in its new Work at the Frontier series: an analysis of over 800,000 work messages in ChatGPT shows that 43.5% of profession-specific tasks come from another profession. The designer handles his own budget. The salesperson analyzes data. The marketer fixes his own website. The division of labor is being rearranged before job descriptions have caught up.InfraRivals on the same team: 40 companies launch an open alliance for AI agent securityOn 27 July NVIDIA, Microsoft, IBM, Cloudflare, Hugging Face and over 40 more organizations announced the Open Secure AI Alliance - open technologies and tools for securing software and AI agents. The occasion isn't abstract: the industry still remembers the first major incident with an autonomous agent. The idea is simple - security shouldn't be a trade secret.BuildersThe harness beats the model: GitHub on where AI productivity actually hidesAn essay on the GitHub blog from 27 July says something simple and rarely said out loud: the biggest jump in working with AI agents comes from how well you master the shell around the model - the harness. The model is the smaller part of the equation. A thesis that matches the everyday experience of anyone building with agents.CommerceX launches the wallet: money, a card and 6% interest inside the social networkFrom 27 July X Money is rolling out to select users in the US: an in-app wallet, free transfers between people, a Visa card with cashback and up to 6% annual interest. Another step toward the 'everything app.' The question is worth asking now - do you want your bank to live where you message people.FrontierThe biggest open model is now downloadable: Moonshot releases the weights for Kimi K3On 27 July Moonshot AI uploaded the full weights for Kimi K3 - 2.8 trillion parameters, the largest openly available model to date. We wrote about its debut ten days ago. Now anyone can download it and run it on their own machine. In theory. In practice the weights weigh in at around 1.5 terabytes and need hardware that few people have.ControlBrussels: children's accounts on TikTok are too exposed and breach the DSAOn 24 July the European Commission sent TikTok preliminary findings: minors' accounts don't meet the safety standard of the Digital Services Act. A public child account is visible to anyone on the internet, even without registering, and content from 16-17-year-olds gets recommended to strangers. If confirmed, the fine could reach 6% of global turnover.FrontierAnthropic ships Opus 5 - near-flagship intelligence at half the price, with an effort dialOn 24 July, Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 - by the company's own numbers, nearly as capable as the flagship Fable 5, at half the price. The real news is the effort dial: you decide how hard the model thinks on each task, and how much you pay for it.FrontierChatGPT now reads your health data - if you decide to give it accessOn 23 July OpenAI launched Health in ChatGPT for adults in the US: you connect Apple Health and your medical records, and the chat carries them into the conversation. The convenience is real - someone is finally putting your scattered health history in one place and explaining it to you in plain language. Who holds it and under what terms remains an open question.
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