Episode Details

A catch-up on a lighter but still revealing AI news day: space-based protein research, fusion money tied to AI-era energy demand, a new benchmark for fixing medical vision-language models, and three quick headlines on model churn, Anthropic privacy backlash, and Tencent’s latest open model.

Covered in this episode:
- A British startup launches an orbital lab to gather microgravity data for AI models studying disease-linked proteins
- Google backs Proxima Fusion in a €400 million round that values the company at €2.4 billion
- New research on whether medical vision-language models can be edited after deployment without breaking other behavior
- GPT-4’s unusually long run at the top of Epoch AI’s capabilities index, with leadership changing hands 17 times since
- Anthropic removes hidden tracking code from Claude Code after backlash
- Tencent’s Apache 2.0 licensed Hy3 model arrives with a 295B-parameter MoE design and 256K context

Source links:
- WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/british-space-startup-launches-longevity-lab-into-orbit/
- Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/3b1665f4-9a48-4ec1-a0bc-528c528db96e
- arXiv (Medical VLM editing paper): https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05310v1
- The Decoder (Epoch Capabilities Index): https://the-decoder.com/gpt-4s-dominance-lasted-a-year-while-todays-top-models-barely-survive-seven-weeks-at-the-top/
- Ars Technica (Claude tracker story): https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/anthropic-outed-for-claude-tracker-that-secretly-monitored-chinese-users/
- Simon Willison on Tencent Hy3: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/6/hy3/#atom-everything