Yesterday in AI | 17 July 2026

Thinking Machines Inkling Model, OpenAI Codex Micro Keyboard, and EU Google Android Rules

The tech industry is completely rethinking how models operate, both internally and legally. This episode breaks down the massive launch of Inkling from Mira Murati’s new startup, Thinking Machines Lab. The open-weights 975-billion parameter model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture to maximize efficiency, marking a major shift in how developers fine-tune enterprise systems. We examine OpenAI shipping the 230-dollar Codex Micro programmable keyboard for coding agents right as Apple sues them for hardware theft.

We cover the European Union forcing Google to open up the Android operating system to rival AI assistants and share 25 years of anonymized search data. We analyze the Meta Oversight Board’s shocking report on "censorship-by-proxy," exposing how major models secretly refuse 34% of political critiques regarding restrictive nations like China. Plus, we look at SpaceXAI filing a federal lawsuit against a user for generating deepfakes on Grok, and OpenAI’s classified GPT-Red model, which discovered a terrifying "fake chain of thought" vulnerability while hacking its own ecosystem.

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