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2026-07-13
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An archive of 20 AI news briefs collected on 2026-07-13. Check the original sources for details and updates.

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01News

Nadella criticizes OpenAI and Anthropic for banning knowledge distillation while training on others' data

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is calling out OpenAI and Anthropic for what he calls a "reverse information paradox." They train on public data under fair use but ban distillation of their own models, all while learning from customer interactions. Nadella wants companies to control their own learning infrastructure. Microsoft, of course, sells exactly that.

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02News

StepFun Terminal’s first intelligent agent smartphone STEPX Neo unveiled; industry insiders say it is independently designed and unrelated to Meizu

The first intelligent agent smartphone under the StepFun terminal brand, STEPX Neo, was officially unveiled tonight. Industry insider @Brucal posted today that this phone is designed by StepFun itself and has nothing to do with Meizu, with prices expected to be above 3,500 RMB.

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05News

Doubao Input Method HarmonyOS Version Begins Recruitment: Compatible with HarmonyOS 5.0, Supports Same Voice Recognition as Doubao

According to user feedback, the HarmonyOS version of Doubao Input Method has begun recruitment, and will bring Doubao's same voice recognition capability, keyboard input and word association capability that gets more accurate with use (currently only supports 9-key and 26-key input modes), among others.

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06News

Man uses AI to forge"Ate and found a wire, cutting the tongue"Malicious image claim, subjected to coercive measures by police

A man in Shanghai used AI technology to fabricate images and videos of his tongue being cut by wire, and made malicious claims against out-of-province food delivery merchants, accumulating over 3000 yuan. His method was to locate Shanghai merchants thousands of miles away via a food delivery platform to place orders, then pressure for compensation under the pretext of 'finding foreign objects in the food'. The man has currently been placed under criminal coercive measures by police.

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07News

Cloudflare launches Precursor: detects AI agent behavior through continuous client-side signals

Precursor, our new continuous behavioral validation engine for bot management, offers visibility into how humans and bots actually interact across the full user journey. By turning session-level behavior into bot detection signals, it identifies advanced automation with higher precision — while reducing friction for legitimate users.

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09News

StepFun launches terminal brand STEPX and its first intelligent agent smartphone, STEPX Neo

StepFun Chairman Yin Qi responded to why the company entered the hardware sector, stating the goal is to build truly large-model-native AI terminals. The first intelligent agent smartphone, STEPX Neo, was unveiled, featuring an interactive rear screen and the Step AOS system. Initial ecosystem partners such as Meituan, Alipay, and Baidu were announced. Specific configurations and launch dates remain pending.

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10News

China's self-developed AI chip achieves architectural breakthrough: 14nm process delivers 520 trillion floating-point operations per second

China's first AI chip using software-defined and 3D near-memory computing technology debuts, achieving 520 trillion floating-point operations per second at 14 nanometer process through bottom-level architecture innovation, effectively alleviating the 'memory wall' bottleneck, and forming a complete product system from accelerator cards to large-scale intelligent computing clusters. This provides a self-controllable new path for the AI compute foundation.

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11News

StepFun Terminal’s first intelligent agent smartphone STEPX Neo unveiled, equipped with an interactive rear screen

At the StepFun Terminal Brand and Intelligent Agent Strategy Launch Event, the first intelligent agent smartphone, STEPX Neo, was officially unveiled. Its key feature is an interactive secondary screen on the back of the device. Officially announced initial ecosystem partners include Meituan, WPS, CapCut, Ctrip, Amap, and Alipay. Specific configurations and launch times are yet to be announced.

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12News

German AI Association releases open-source model Soofi S, leading in English and German benchmark tests

The German consortium behind the AI model Soofi S has acknowledged in version 3.0 of its tech report that test questions from the science benchmark GPQA accidentally ended up in the training data. The community caught the error by examining the publicly available data. The team removed the benchmark from its evaluation and recalculated all results.

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14News

Cloudflare to block AI agent crawlers by default from September 15, three types of crawler control switches launched

AI agent crawlers, the bots that fetch pages in real time on behalf of a person waiting for an answer, will be blocked by default on a slice of the web from September 15 onwards. Cloudflareannouncedthe change on July 1, and most of the coverage since then has focused on Google. The more useful part is what it asks of everyone building agents, and what it offers them in return.

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15News

Zig creator criticizes Anthropic's Bun migrating from Zig to Rust: Code mess stems from over-reliance on AI agents

> I harass the sea with my tiny boat and am called a pirate, you do it with a great fleet and are called a king. Anthropic is actively campaigning to end software engineering. They need you to believe they can do that. Well, maybe it’s not you that they need to convince. Maybe it’s your C-Suite, various world leaders, or the manager of your retirement fund. They’ve raised $132 billion in investment, and are approaching an IPO valued over $1 trillion. Since they cannot show profitability, this depends on selling their hypothetical future impact.

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16News

Huawei FreeClip 2 earphones' Doubao linkage feature fully launched, HarmonyOS phones support XiaoYi/Doubao dual agents

According to blogger @Adak Fenglang Juxu, Huawei earphones' integration with Doubao has been fully rolled out. Download the Huawei Smart Audio and Doubao apps, and HarmonyOS phones can have the XiaoYi / Doubao dual agents online, while Apple / Android can also use Doubao for message broadcast and face-to-face translation.

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19News

Microsoft: Windows team is fully using AI to mine vulnerabilities, future Patch Tuesday security updates will include more fix patches

Microsoft announced that its Windows team is fully utilizing AI to mine system vulnerabilities, and the newly introduced multimodal AI security system MDASH can automatically scan and analyze potential vulnerabilities, improving identification efficiency. This means future 'Patch Tuesday' will include more fixes, but not because there are more vulnerabilities, rather because discovery efficiency has improved.

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