Daily AI CatchupAI Catchup — Saturday, July 18, 2026
Saturday, July 18, 2026Google
Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro Delayed Again as Internal Team Clashes Slow Development
Alphabet shares dropped 4% — Android, DeepMind, and Cloud teams are reportedly clashing.
Lm-StudioLM Studio Ships Bionic, a Full AI Agent Built Entirely on Local Open Models
Coding, file editing, and voice transcription — nothing leaves your machine unless you choose cloud fallback.
Epoch-AiEpoch AI Finds Detectors Miss 26% of Style-Mimicked Scientific Writing
Academic institutions relying on these tools are significantly overestimating their effectiveness.
Arc-AgiSchema Hits 99% on ARC-AGI-3 by Forcing Models to Reason Like Physicists
Formalize the rules as code first, then act — clever harness design beats raw scale here.
AppleApple Intelligence Gets Approved for iPhones in China via Alibaba Partnership
Opens the world's largest smartphone market after years being blocked — a big distribution win for Alibaba.