ai weekly · July 18, 2026
Anthropic Edges Toward the Exit & The Fight to Own the Stack - AI Week in Review (July 12-18, 2026)
This week in AI: Anthropic moves toward an IPO as the BIS warns the AI boom is shifting to debt, the fight to own model weights intensifies (Kimi K3, Soofi S, Vercel shows open-weights at 29% of tokens), the harness stays the hard part (Ploy's migration, ReactBench), agents become the attack surface (Grok CLI leaks secrets, OpenAI's GPT-Red, Google Mantis, Apple sues OpenAI), and Kaiser nurses fight AI surveillance.
Anthropic edges toward the exit The fight to own the stack The harness is still the hard part