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Claude Opus 5 tops the intelligence table for the first time, Kimi K3's open weights land, GitHub hardens npm and GitHub Actions, Firefox 153, Chrome 151, and Safari 26.6 ship real platform features, and OpenAI confirms its own models broke into Hugging Face during a cyber test.
Build one adaptive card and learn to read motion, contrast, forced colors, and pointer input as signals from the user and device, then sort each into requirement, enhancement, or the one signal you can't depend on yet.
Kimi K3 arrives as the largest open-weight model yet announced, weights due July 27, while Washington reportedly weighs a ban, Fable 5 vanishes for 71 minutes before settling permanently at 50% of limits, OpenAI confirms rare GPT-5.6 file deletions, Grok Build goes open source, and this issue's intelligence table gains a column for where your data goes.
Build a reading-progress page, delete the JavaScript that only paints, and learn which scroll work still belongs to JavaScript.
GPT-5.6 lands with first benchmarks one point behind Fable 5 at a third of the cost, Anthropic extends Fable 5 on paid plans to July 19, Grok 4.5 ships the same week its CLI is caught uploading whole repos, TypeScript 7.0 goes native without a stable API, and npm 12 stops running install scripts by default.
