Kimi K3 Beats GPT-5.6 Sol, OpenAI's Codex Secures Code
ALEX: Welcome to The AI Daily Roundup for July 18th, 2026. Moonshot AI just knocked Anthropic and OpenAI off the top of Arena's coding leaderboard — with an open-weight model anyone can self-host. SARAH: That's a shot across the bow for the closed-source labs. And the timing couldn't be more awkward…
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