Pulse Daily — Friday, July 17, 2026
On Friday, July 17, 2026 — the most consequential single day in AI this year — Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro launched after missing three deadlines amid a full base-model rebuild, China inaugurated its rival AI governance bloc WAICO at the World AI Conference with Xi Jinping's first-ever keynote, Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K3 as the world's largest open-weight model at 2.8 trillion parameters, TSMC posted record Q2 earnings with 77% profit growth and raised its full-year guidance above 40%, Mira Murati's Thinking Machines released its open-weight debut model Inkling, Meta faced a landmark…
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