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The Founder's Wire, Week of July 16: MCP Goes Stateless, China's Persona Law Takes Effect, and Microsoft Ships Progressive Tool Discovery
Four verified moves that change what a team of one ships this week — the stateless MCP release candidate, China's AI-companion law landing live, load-on-demand tool schemas in Agent Framework 1.11, and pluggable backends in CrewAI.
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KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5: The Cheap Coding Model That Just Went Second Only to Opus on SWE-Bench Pro
A Kuaishou model most founders have never heard of now beats GLM-5.2 and GPT-5.5 on repository-level coding — at roughly a quarter of GLM's price. Here's whether it belongs in your routing table.
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PyTorch 2.13 Just Changed the Math on Running Models on a Mac
FlexAttention landed on Apple Silicon with up to a ~12x speedup on sparse patterns, and a new fused loss cuts training memory 4x. For a founder whose whole 'cluster' is one MacBook and one rented GPU, that's a budget line, not a footnote.
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The Founder's Wire, Week of July 14: GPT-5.6 Goes Fully GA, China's Persona Law Lands, and the Model Bill Keeps Falling
Four verified moves that change what a solo founder ships this week: confirmed three-tier GPT-5.6 pricing, tomorrow's Doubao and Qwen agent shutdown, Sonnet 5 as the new default, and a cheaper tool-schema bill.
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The Founder's Wire, Week of July 20: MCP's Stateless Spec Locks in a Week, Kimi K3 Opens a 2.8T Model, and Claude Code Ships Eight Releases
Three verified moves a team of one should act on this week — the MCP spec that finalizes July 28, a near-frontier open-weight model whose weights drop July 27, and a coding-agent update that quietly fixes a real data-safety bug.
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11 stories in today's digest · compiled from 52 sources, each cross-checked across outlets.