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What's Up in AI
July 07, 2026
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It’s time to stay updated with What’s Up in AI.
This week's AI news isn't about faster models or new features. It's about what AI is doing behind the scenes, both in the worlds it creates and inside its own reasoning.
In today’s issue:
🚗 Rocket League without a Game Engine
🧠 Claude's Invisible Notepad
⚡ 5-4-3-2-1 hits you just can't miss
📰 What Else Happened in AI
😂 Your AI-Powered Laugh
Read time: 6 mins
How AI-Era Pricing Is Reshaping Finance Operations
Usage-based and hybrid pricing models are changing how B2B companies generate revenue — and creating new headaches for the finance teams behind them.
Tabs co-founder Rebecca Schwartz and PwC Partner Amit Dhir sat down to unpack exactly what that means in practice: how pricing model decisions ripple into revenue recognition, forecasting, and financial ops — and what it takes to scale without piling on manual work.
Watch the on-demand recording to get practical frameworks, real-world examples, and a clear path to operationalizing usage-based revenue — including a forward-looking take on how AI will reshape financial workflows. If your team is navigating pricing complexity heading into the back half of the year, this is worth an hour.
#1 LATEST IN AI TODAY📎
What Happened:
Anthropic published research showing Claude uses an internal J-space, a kind of hidden mental notepad where it holds and steers active concepts while reasoning.
What You Need to Know:
J-space is separate from visible chain-of-thought. Claude can use these internal signals to guide its answers without writing them out on screen.
When researchers edited J-space, Claude’s answers changed too. In one test, swapping an internal “spider” pattern for “ant” changed its answer about legs from 8 to 6.
When researchers removed this workspace, Claude could still chat and recall facts, but its multi-step reasoning got much worse. So yes, Claude apparently has a tiny invisible desk where the harder thinking happens.
Why It Matters:
AI reasoning is getting less like simple text prediction and more like hidden internal planning — which is exciting, weird, and slightly “please show your work, bestie.”
#2 LATEST IN AI TODAY📎
What Happened:
Kyutai and General Intuition released MIRA, an open-source world model built with Epic Games that can run a live 2v2 Rocket League-style game entirely inside a neural network — no normal game engine underneath.
What You Need to Know:
MIRA learned from 10,000 hours of AI bots playing each other, with no human gameplay or player data used in training.
It runs at 20 FPS on a single Nvidia GPU, keeping four players’ screens synced while generating cars, crashes, boost meters, and motion from scratch.
Its memory only lasts about four seconds, so when replays happen, MIRA sometimes hallucinates a very convincing goal that never existed. Tiny neural gaslighting, basically.
Why It Matters:
This is not really about replacing Rocket League. It is about teaching AI to simulate physical worlds — the kind of skill future robots will need before they enter the real one.
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QUICK HITS 💥
It’s time for some quick hits that you’ll love. Let’s go in…..5-4-3-2-1 👇️
5- TOP AI TOOLS OF THE DAY
🎥 Sea Imagine turns text or images into videos across multiple AI models from one interface. Bring ideas to life faster!
🐣 Hatchable builds, hosts, and deploys real apps directly from ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor. Ship apps from a prompt!
👕 ClothesChange.ai changes outfits in any photo using a reference image or text prompt while preserving your face. Try new styles instantly!
🦊 Inkfox AI creates ad creatives, product photos, and social visuals from a single prompt for free. Generate marketing assets in seconds!
🎨 Axey lets you work across multiple AI models, chats, and files in one collaborative canvas. Build with AI your way!
4-AI OPPORTUNITIES
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3-THINGS IN TREND
People are using Gemini Omni’s insane video editing abilities to levitate cars, crush trees, and mimic other types of superpowers.
The Verge reported wealthy families were putting children into AI-tutor school programs.
The New York Times reported voters were asking AI chatbots who they should vote for, turning election research into a new chatbot trust test.
2-USEFUL LINKS
UMA has unveiled the design of its first humanoid robot, built for real-world jobs in factories, warehouses, and industrial facilities. The company is also developing a "Real-Time Learning" AI system that lets robots learn new tasks directly on the job instead of relying only on pre-programmed behaviors—bringing them a step closer to adapting like human workers.
WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN AI 📰
🚀 xAI Rebrands to SpaceXAI
SpaceXAI officially rebranded from xAI following its February merger, which valued the company at $250B.
⚖️ Illinois Passes AI Safety Law
Illinois became the first U.S. state to require major AI developers to complete annual third party safety audits and reporting, with support from Anthropic and OpenAI.
🧠 OpenAI Teases GPT 5.6 Ultra
Tibo Sottiaux revealed that OpenAI’s upcoming GPT 5.6 Ultra model will be available in Codex, with the new model family expected this week.
💬 Chinese AI Apps Drop Companion Features
ByteDance and Alibaba are removing AI companion features from Doubao and Qwen ahead of new Beijing regulations targeting emotional dependency.
🧥 Jensen Huang’s Jacket Goes to Auction
Sotheby's is auctioning an autographed leather jacket worn by Jensen Huang, with estimates placing the final bid between $40K and $60K.
Funding 💰️
Amazon adds new funding, lifting India AI and cloud investment to $48 billion
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