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July 2026 AI news: cheaper coding, faster media

AI just got more useful and more gated at once. In July, Anthropic, GitHub, and Google all shipped moves that could change how teams code, edit media, and deploy models. Here are the 3 biggest ones[1][2][3].

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Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5, announced June 30, is its most agentic Sonnet yet, with stronger reasoning, tool use, coding, and knowledge work. It also launched at $2/$10 per 1M input/output tokens through Aug. 31[4][5][6][7].

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GitHub made Kimi K2.7 Code generally available in Copilot on July 1. It's the first open-weight model in the picker, and for Business and Enterprise, admins have to enable it first[8][9][10].

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Google's new duo is built for speed: Nano Banana 2 Lite is for rapid ideation, and Gemini Omni Flash can turn text, images, and video into conversational edits. Faster media workflows, less friction[11][12][13].

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Which move matters most: Sonnet 5, Kimi in Copilot, or Google's new media tools? Reply with your pick or retweet this thread.

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