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## dante's AI News 1. GitHub added Kimi K2.7 Code to Copilot as its first open-weight model option in the model picker. It is rolling out first to Pro, Pro+, and Max users in VS Code, with Business, Enterprise, and more surfaces coming later. github.blog/changelog/2026-0… 2. Claude Code v2.1.198 is a big agent workflow release: Claude in Chrome is now generally available, background agents can notify when they need input or finish, completed worktree agents now commit, push, and open draft PRs, and transient network drops retry instead of killing the turn. github.com/anthropics/claude… 3. Google Cloud shipped AlloyDB AI function upgrades for running Gemini-style processing inside the database. The important bit is smart batching: Google says internal tests reached up to 2,400x faster processing, around 10,000 rows/sec, compared with row-at-a-time LLM calls. cloud.google.com/blog/produc… 4. Google also released a Workbench Notebooks extension for VS Code, letting ML developers connect local notebooks to managed Google Cloud Workbench instances without leaving the IDE. It is open source and designed to reduce the local-to-cloud context switch. developers.googleblog.com/ml… 5. Meta published a detailed AI storage architecture write-up. The useful takeaway: storage bottlenecks are now a direct GPU-utilization problem, and Meta is moving modern training stacks toward BLOB storage on top of its Tectonic block layer to improve training throughput and research velocity. engineering.fb.com/2026/07/0… 6. Sean Goedecke argues that text AI watermarking will remain easy to remove because text is too compressed a medium for invisible, durable marks. The piece is especially timely because EU AI Act detectability rules start becoming enforceable in August 2026. seangoedecke.com/text-ai-wat… 7. MarketFish is a new open-source multi-agent market simulation engine. Instead of asking one model whether a product will work, it simulates 128+ AI consumers across 30 rounds, with budgets, memory, recommendations, stress, and willingness-to-pay signals. github.com/Key-wxh/market-fi… 8. Google Health API now has an open-source CLI called ghealth. It wraps Google Health API v4 as a single Go binary, exposes 40 verified data types as structured JSON, and is clearly built for agents that need sleep, heart-rate, steps, and other Fitbit-era health data in context. marktechpost.com/2026/07/02/… 9. Pixso launched AI Smart Design, an AI UI generator/editor built directly into the Pixso canvas. The pitch is less tool switching: teams can generate, edit, annotate, and hand off component-based UI inside the same design environment. prnewswire.com/news-releases… 10. @shao__meng surfaced Emil Kowalski's design-engineering skills for coding agents: animation judgment, review checklists, and vocabulary that helps turn vague requests like "make it pop" into precise motion language. Useful direction for anyone trying to make AI-built UI feel less generic. teapawt.net/shao__meng/status/2072… Follow me for more daily AI, dev tools, and product design signals. Tap my profile for the next digest.