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Orbit Labs, Fusion Funding, and Medical AI Model Fixes | UpNext AI – July 7, 2026
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- Jul 7, 2026
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- 400
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Summary
A catch-up on a lighter but still revealing AI news day: space-based protein research, fusion money tied to AI-era energy demand, a new benchmark for fixing medical vision-language models, and three quick headlines on model churn, Anthropic privacy backlash, and Tencent’s latest open model. Covered in this episode: - A British startup launches an orbital lab to gather microgravity data for AI models studying disease-linked proteins - Google backs Proxima Fusion in a €400 million round that values the company at €2.4 billion - New research on whether medical vision-language models can be edited after deployment without breaking other behavior - GPT-4’s unusually long run at the top of Epoch AI’s capabilities index, with leadership changing hands 17 times since - Anthropic removes hidden tracking code from Claude Code after backlash - Tencent’s Apache 2.0 licensed Hy3 model arrives with a 295B-parameter MoE design and 256K context Source links: - WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/british-space-startup-launches-longevity-lab-into-orbit/ - Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/3b1665f4-9a48-4ec1-a0bc-528c528db96e - arXiv (Medical VLM editing paper): https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05310v1 - The Decoder (Epoch Capabilities Index): https://the-decoder.com/gpt-4s-dominance-lasted-a-year-while-todays-top-models-barely-survive-seven-weeks-at-the-top/ - Ars Technica (Claude tracker story): https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/anthropic-outed-for-claude-tracker-that-secretly-monitored-chinese-users/ - Simon Willison on Tencent Hy3: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/6/hy3/#atom-everything