July 17, 2026
Today's top tech stories, deduped across the newsletters I read and briefly summarized. Click a source to open the original article.
AI
Kimi K3: Moonshot AI launches new frontier model with 2.8 trillion parameters
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, calling it their most capable model yet with 2.8 trillion parameters. It's available via website and API now, with open weights promised by July 27.
Thinking Machines releases Inkling, its first open-weights model
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has released its first open-weights model, Inkling, a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 975 billion total parameters and 41 billion active.
Google rebrands NotebookLM as Gemini Notebook
Google has renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook as it consolidates its AI products under the Gemini brand.
OpenAI confirms Codex/GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted user files
OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux explained that the coding agent GPT-5.6 has in some cases unexpectedly deleted files, occurring most often when full access mode is enabled.
NVIDIA: BlueField to scale infrastructure for agentic AI factories
NVIDIA outlines how agentic AI is changing the infrastructure pattern for AI factories, where a single request can trigger many model calls, tool calls, memory lookups, and policy checks, and how BlueField is designed to handle that scale.
Security
Flaw in Claude for Chrome extension lets malicious extensions trigger AI actions
A vulnerability in Anthropic's Claude for Chrome browser extension could let a malicious extension simulate user clicks to trigger predefined AI actions, potentially abusing Claude's access to connected services like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Salesforce.
Ransomware attack on Coca-Cola's Fairlife halts US dairy production
Coca-Cola disclosed that a ransomware attack on its Fairlife dairy subsidiary has disrupted operations and temporarily halted production of Fairlife products across the US.
New ClickLock macOS malware tricks users into revealing their password
The new ClickLock info-stealing malware kills all visible processes on macOS to force users into typing in their system login password.
Dev
Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat
Microsoft has open-sourced Comic Chat, the classic 1990s chat client known for rendering conversations as comic-strip panels.
How the Rust-to-Zig rewrite is going
Developer Richard Feldman shares a status update on rewriting a project from Rust to Zig, covering lessons on performance and developer experience.
Web
Firefox compiled to WebAssembly runs inside another browser
Puter compiled the entire Firefox browser to WebAssembly so it can run inside another browser — an impressive technical feat for the web platform.
IT
Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro lose support in 90 days
Microsoft announced that Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro editions, along with Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB 2016, will stop receiving updates in three months.