The Week · Jul 6 to Jul 12 · so far

The day after launch day, and the shape of the week is clear: the frontier labs are no longer selling models, they're selling agents that finish work.

38 stories across 5 briefings. The headline is from Fri, the busiest day.

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Mon 6
"DuneSlide": two CVSS 9.8 Cursor IDE flaws let a zero-click prompt injection escape the sandbox to OS-level RCE — fixed in Cursor 3.0
NVIDIA launches a revenue-sharing / vendor-financing compute model to get GPUs into startups and neoclouds (Baseten, Fireworks, Together AI cited)
OpenAI to run GPT-5.6 Sol on Cerebras at up to ~750 tok/s "in July" — order-of-magnitude faster streaming for a frontier model
Tue 7
Chinese open-weight models take up to 46% of U.S. developer token use as costs bite; GLM 5.2 is the fastest-adopted model Vercel tracked in 2026 and Lindy moved 100% of traffic to DeepSeek
JADEPUFFER: Sysdig documents the first fully agentic ransomware — an autonomous LLM chained recon, credential theft, lateral movement and DB encryption via Langflow CVE-2025-3248
Anthropic signs a $19B, 20-year lease with TeraWulf for a 401MW Kentucky data center
Wed 8
OpenAI clears the White House pre-deployment review — Commerce approves a broad GPT-5.6 (Sol/Terra/Luna) rollout, with public availability Jul 9
Musk's xAI completes its rebrand to SpaceXAI (new logo, merged into SpaceX); SPCX joined the Nasdaq-100 on Jul 7
Legal-AI startup Norm raises $120M Series C at a $1.2B valuation (Khosla-led), building an AI-native law firm
Thu 9
SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5 publicly — Opus-class, trained on Cursor data, $2/$6 per M tokens, live in Cursor on all plans
GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna go live to all ChatGPT users and API developers today — first frontier model to clear the White House pre-deployment review and ship broadly
Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A at a $1B valuation to let enterprises train their own agents (Radical Ventures-led; Nvidia, Intel, Dell)
Fri 10
OpenAI ships ChatGPT Work and merges Codex into a single desktop "super app" — a general-purpose agent that runs for hours and returns finished docs/sheets/slides
Meta starts charging for AI: Muse Spark 1.1 lands in US public preview at $1.25/$4.25 per M tokens, the cheapest agentic-coding model from a major lab
Sophos: Claude Code, Cursor and Codex routinely trigger endpoint detection rules written to catch human attackers — DPAPI credential decryption, certutil→bitsadmin fallback, startup-folder writes

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