IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Musk dominates the headlines

Elon Musk has launched the America Party after a public feud with Trump, pledging a pro-tech, pro-Bitcoin agenda aimed at shaking up U.S. politics starting with the 2026 midterms; while the party isn’t officially registered yet, Musk says “fiat is hopeless,” Trump warns it’ll split the GOP, Tesla’s stock is wobbling, and the crypto world is watching closely as speculation swirls that Musk is quietly boosting his Bitcoin stash. if anyone can turn politics into a tech startup, it’s Musk, and now the real question is, who’s ready to pay their donations in Bitcoin?

Microsoft’s new medical AI tool, MAI-DxO, outperforms human doctors by accurately diagnosing complex cases with up to 85.5% accuracy i.e. more than four times better than experienced physicians while cutting diagnostic costs by up to 20%; by combining multiple AI models like GPT, Gemini, and Claude, it mimics a team of doctors working together, promising to reduce healthcare expenses and improve diagnosis, though it’s meant to assist, not replace, doctors and still needs real-world trials before wider use. If it delivers on its promise, MAI-DxO could be the first step toward true medical superintelligence.

Also, Elon Musk’s xAI launched Grok 4 on July 9, claiming it’s smarter than most grad students and capable of discovering new physics, with benchmarks showing it beating GPT-4/5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on reasoning tests. A new $300/month “SuperGrok Heavy” tier offers developers access to its multi-agent model and code-fixing tools, while Grok 4 rolls out improved multimodal skills and deeper integration into X (formerly Twitter). The launch, however, follows controversy over past antisemitic outputs from Grok, prompting xAI to adjust system prompts as it aims to compete directly with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

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What else is on the radar?

WEB3

• US Secret Service recovered around $400M in crypto from criminals.

• Ethereum’s Vitalik proposes a gas limit cap of 16.77M/TX to reduce DoS risk.

• Coinbase Wallet hints at a rebrand on X, with a new name possibly dropping on July 16th.

• Pump.fun will launch its PUMP token ICO on July 12, selling 33% of 1T tokens at $0.004, with trading starting within 72 hours with UK and US citizens excluded.

• Twitter co-founder and Block $XYZ CEO’s Jack rolls out BitChat, a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app.

• New Zealand plans to ban crypto ATMs.

AI

• Google launches Veo 3 for Gemini users across over 159 countries.

• ByteDance launches Trae Agent, a command-line LLM dev that writes, debugs, and patches full-stack code from prompts, powered by Claude and Gemini.

• Ilya Sutskever is now CEO of Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded after leaving OpenAI, as Daniel Gross exits to lead AI at Meta.

• Perplexity launches Comet, its AI-powered browser featuring an AI assistant that summarizes pages, manages tabs and more both available for macOS and Windows.

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