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"OpenAI and Anthropic have lobbied Washington regulators to restrict Chinese open-weight AI models, five people close to the discussions told The New York Times on Saturday. The report landed after OpenAI joined the industry letter it had initially sat out and Google backed it, leaving Anthropic as the only major American AI company outside it. Officials appear to favor reviewing individual Chinese models as national security cases over a blanket ban."

"---CHATGPT---score: 90trend: upchange: +1+ GPT-5.6 reached general availability July 9 after the government gate lifted, with day-one Amazon Bedrock listing and Microsoft 365 Copilot switching to it as the default model+ ChatGPT Work launched the same day, an agent that runs multi-hour office tasks across Slack, Salesforce and Google Drive for 9M-plus paying business seats+ Sol leads the agentic benchmarks with 88.8% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and a record 53.6 on Agents' Last Exam, and usage caps on Codex and Work were temporarily lifted- Apple sued OpenAI July 10 for trade-secret theft and seeks an injunction on its hardware line, while the NYT asked the court to sanction OpenAI for allegedly deleting chat-log evidence- Safety chief Johannes Heidecke became the sixth safety leader to exit in two years, and Ramp now shows OpenAI trailing Anthropic in tracked enterprise spend---CLAUDE---score: 84trend: upchange: +4+ Fable 5 returned to worldwide general availability July 1 with a new classifier blocking the flagged jailbreak in over 99% of attempts, ending the 19-day export suspension that had the flagship dark+ IPO machinery engaged: Goldman, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan are scheduling investor meetings for a listing as soon as October at a $965B valuation, with Yipit estimating ARR near $69B+ Ramp data shows Anthropic passing OpenAI in tracked US enterprise adoption, 34.4% vs 32.3%, while Fable 5 holds the coding crown at 80% on SWE-Bench Pro against GPT-5.6 Sol's 64.6%+ Ode with Anthropic, a Blackstone-backed enterprise AI-services firm, launched July 15 to push midsize deployments as Claude Cowork hit web and mobile with 600,000-plus organizations- Alibaba banned Claude Code July 10 after researchers found hidden China-fingerprinting code in the client, and a roughly 18-hour July 7 outage hit Fable 5 within a week of its relaunch---GEMINI---score: 81trend: downchange: -4+ Gemini Enterprise claims over 8M paid seats across 2,800-plus companies with paid usage up 40% quarter over quarter, and Cognizant expanded its partnership July 7+ Consumer momentum holds at 27.4% web share and 118M daily users in June, the largest daily-user gain of any tracked AI app- Gemini 3.5 Pro missed general availability a fifth straight month after DeepMind reportedly scrapped the base model for a rebuild; the July 17 target remains unconfirmed by Google- The deployability advantage evaporated as Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 both returned to full availability while Gemini's flagship stays in preview- The EU's top court made the €4.1B Android fine final July 2, opening follow-on damages suits, with a record DMA fine over Search self-preferencing due by July 27---MISTRAL---score: 74trend: downchange: -2+ An open-weight frontier model entered early access with government and industry partners, Mistral's first credible answer to the top-end gap, with broad release promised this summer+ EU AI Act enforcement went live July 10 with GPAI obligations from August 2, strengthening the compliance-ready sovereign pitch, and CI&T signed on as preferred LATAM partner+ Release cadence held with Leanstral 1.5 for formal verification, the Robostral Navigate robotics model, and enterprise prompt governance in AI Studio- The reported €3B raise at a roughly €20B valuation is still not closed five weeks after Bloomberg first reported the talks- The sovereignty tailwind weakened as both US flagships returned to unrestricted worldwide availability during the window---GROK---score: 30trend: downchange: -4+ Grok 4.5, the 1.5T-parameter Cursor-trained model, shipped broadly July 8 at $2/$6 per million tokens to undercut Claude, with the signed $60B Cursor acquisition set to close in Q3- Researchers showed Grok Build's CLI uploaded entire Git repositories including committed secrets to xAI cloud storage while the privacy toggle did nothing, a disqualifying finding for enterprise code work- Independent benchmarks place Grok 4.5 fourth on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, and Musk conceded Fable "is definitely better than Grok 4.5"- Reporting surfaced 59 unpermitted gas turbines at Colossus 2, roughly double what xAI acknowledged, with the DOJ intervening on national-security grounds- Grok 4.5 launched without EU availability and is absent from Azure AI Foundry while the EU's DSA investigation stays open---DEEPSEEK---score: 24trend: upchange: +4+ DeepSeek became the top model line on OpenRouter at 17.6% of weekly tokens, more than Google and OpenAI combined on that gateway, and reached about 23% of tokens on Vercel's AI Gateway+ IPO preparation began for a 2027 mainland listing alongside talks for a $1.5B round at a $71B valuation, up roughly 37% in six weeks+ V4 general availability was announced for mid-July with a 1M-token context window and peak/off-peak pricing that preserves the cost floor, and an in-house inference chip is in development- Beijing is weighing curbs on overseas access to advanced Chinese models, a second political chokepoint that directly threatens the router-driven adoption earning this week's points- State-fund board control and 17-plus US state bans plus federal restrictions keep DeepSeek off-limits for regulated Western buyers"

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