Claude dominates PH today with Word integration and a cloud planning tool. Also: open-source Mac screenshot app, visual web agents, and a way to control Claude Code from your phone.
MiniMax drops M2.7 open weights, AMD's AI director trashes Claude quality, and DFlash brings 3x faster inference to Apple Silicon. Plus robotics milestones and a Neuralink breakthrough.
MiniMax releases open weights for M2.7 on HuggingFace. 229B parameters with MIT license. First model to autonomously handle 30-50% of its own RL training workflow.
Benchmarks are strong: 56.2% SWE-Pro (matching GPT-5.3 Codex), 66.6% MLE Bench Lite medal rate (second only to Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4). Update to the self-evolving model announced last week.
Quiet day for GenAI. GPT Image 2 was briefly spotted in the wild, and ComfyUI gets a proper video editing companion.
BorgBackup gets a slick web UI, a new Mac word processor worth checking out, and you can now control your MacBook by tapping it.