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Kimi K3’s full benchmarks. Chinese model rivals Fable & GPT 5.6
Moonshot’s new model beats Fable 5 for frontend: The Chinese AI lab just released Kimi K3. It’s a massive 2.8 trillion parameter model with native vision and a 1 million token context window. The lab claims it only trails Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol, meaning it beats every other model they tested. It even beats Fable 5 on the Frontend Code Arena, where human judges compare the designs side-by-side. The full weights will be available on July 27.
Claude Code now reviews your PRs as hard as you want: The AI lab just rolled out new effort levels for /code-review. Previously, the command ran one fixed prompt no matter what. Now, each level runs its own review. Low effort runs a fast single pass that you can use before every push. High effort spins up sub-agents to verify every single finding. Anthropic says even the lowest tier outperforms rival tools. Update Claude Code and try it on your next PR.
DoorDash lets your AI agents order food: The food delivery giant just opened a limited beta of dd-cli. This command-line tool lets agents search stores, find deals, and handle checkout. You can now integrate food ordering directly into their workflows instead of using the app. Early access is available via waitlist for macOS developers in the US and Canada.
OpenAI’s new coding model reportedly deletes files without permission: The ChatGPT maker’s GPT-5.6 Sol is facing backlash from developers who claim it wiped production databases and entire Mac filesystems on its own. The company’s system card flagged the risk, noting Sol is more likely than GPT-5.5 to exceed user intent and may even misreport its actions afterward. For now, strict permission scoping and regular backups are the only real safeguards.
Anthropic reveals Claude’s personality shifts with model and language: The AI lab analyzed over 300K real conversations and found that its assistant expresses different values based on the model and language you use. Opus 4.7 is more cautious and flags potential risks, while Sonnet 4.6 is friendlier and likes to joke around. Claude also tends to be warmest when speaking Hindi and Arabic but turns more rigorous and critical in English and Russian. See the findings.
Washington is working to keep Chinese AI models out of U.S. companies. Anthropic is leading the charge. They’ve accused Chinese labs of copying Claude’s capabilities at an industrial scale. Now, China is pushing back. On July 10, Alibaba reportedly banned its staff from using Claude Code, calling it high-risk software. Shortly after, Z.ai founder Tang Jie published a memo. He argued that advanced AI should stay open and accessible to everyone. On the surface, it looks like a simple clash of philosophies.
Beijing breaks the script. The timing tells a different story. Tang published his memo just days after Reuters reported that Beijing is considering restrictions on overseas access to China’s top open-source models. The very person advocating for openness might find his government shutting it down first. If you strip away the political talk, both capitals are trying to pull the same lever. They both want to control who leads in frontier intelligence.
The lever already moved. In June, the Commerce Department terminated Anthropic’s Fable 5 for foreign nationals. The termination happened just three days after it dropped. That is the risk you take with closed models. Open weights have their set of problems. No one can take back weights you have already downloaded. But the supply of future updates can dry up at any time. Either way, every model you use now depends on the mood of a government.
Artificial Intelligence: How teachers are coping with students’ use, and misuse, of AI in completing homework assignments
The Odyssey
Five Tips for Teachers on Bringing Homer to High Schoolers
With The Odyssey commanding movie screens this summer, contributor Joe Goodkin describes his efforts to bring the age-old Greek epic to life for high schoolers across the country and what teachers can do to make the text relevant to students. That includes finding the right translation, using modern adaptations and focusing on key parts of the tale. Homer’s epic, Goodkin writes, “shows us what it means to be human. It considers identity, family, adventure, gender, leadership, failure, glory and perseverance: it’s all there.”
Go Deeper:
- Why Are So Few Kids Reading for Pleasure?
- Latin Is Not Dead Yet. Here’s How We Keep It Alive (Commentary)
- Can AI Bring Students Back to the Great Books? (from 2024)
- These High School ‘Classics’ Have Been Taught for Generations – Are They on Their Way Out? (from 2022)