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ChatGPT Health lets U.S. users query their own labs, meds, and sleep data.
OpenAI launched a Health experience in ChatGPT on July 23, allowing eligible U.S. users aged 18 and older to connect health records and Apple Health data. Free, Plus, and Pro subscribers can ask questions grounded in their personal health context on web and iOS.
openai.com/news/product-releasesGrok 4.5 leads SWE Marathon at 29% while using 4.2x fewer tokens than Claude Opus 4.8.
xAI's Grok 4.5, a 1.5-trillion-parameter MoE model released July 8, posted a 29.0% resolution rate on SWE Marathon and averaged only 15,954 output tokens per task, compared to 67,020 for Claude Opus 4.8. A hallucination regression on AA-Omniscience was also flagged by independent reviewers.
x.ai/news/grok-4-5Zhipu GLM-5.2 is open-weight, MIT-licensed, and outscores GPT-5.5 on SWE-bench Pro.
Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2, a 744B-parameter MoE model with a 1M-token context window, under a permissive MIT license with no regional restrictions. Independent evaluation scores it at 62.1 on SWE-bench Pro, ahead of GPT-5.5's 58.6, at roughly one-sixth the cost of comparable closed models.
huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.2Hachette, Elsevier, and Cengage sue Google over Gemini training on copyrighted books.
Hachette Book Group, Elsevier, Cengage Learning, and author Scott Turow filed a federal class-action against Google on July 10, alleging Gemini was trained on millions of copyrighted books and journal articles obtained under narrow-use agreements for services like Google Books. Plaintiffs are seeking statutory damages, permanent injunctions, and destruction of unauthorized copies.
betanews.com/article/publishers-sue-google-gemini-book-trainingAlphabet Q2 Google Cloud revenue surges 82% to $24.8B, but capex hike rattles investors.
Alphabet reported Q2 2026 revenue of $119.8B, with Google Cloud reaching $24.8B, up 82% year over year and well above the $22.3B analyst estimate. Shares fell roughly 3.65% after hours as the company raised its full-year 2026 capital expenditure guidance to $195 to $205 billion and reported negative free cash flow of $5.9B for the quarter.
cnbc.com/2026/07/22/google-earnings-q2-goog-live-updates.htmlAnthropic's Claude Code Gateway gives enterprises SSO, cost tracking, and policy control.
Anthropic released a self-hosted Claude Code Gateway that adds corporate SSO, role-based access, centrally enforced policy, and per-user cost attribution for large developer teams. It ships inside the existing claude binary, requiring no separate agent to provision.
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