{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"UpNext AI","title":"Orbit Labs, Fusion Funding, and Medical AI Model Fixes | UpNext AI – July 7, 2026","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/63a7f0c7\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":400,"description":"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:\n- A British startup launches an orbital lab to gather microgravity data for AI models studying disease-linked proteins\n- Google backs Proxima Fusion in a €400 million round that values the company at €2.4 billion\n- New research on whether medical vision-language models can be edited after deployment without breaking other behavior\n- GPT-4’s unusually long run at the top of Epoch AI’s capabilities index, with leadership changing hands 17 times since\n- Anthropic removes hidden tracking code from Claude Code after backlash\n- Tencent’s Apache 2.0 licensed Hy3 model arrives with a 295B-parameter MoE design and 256K contextSource links:\n- WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/british-space-startup-launches-longevity-lab-into-orbit/\n- Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/3b1665f4-9a48-4ec1-a0bc-528c528db96e\n- arXiv (Medical VLM editing paper): https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05310v1\n- 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/\n- Ars Technica (Claude tracker story): https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/anthropic-outed-for-claude-tracker-that-secretly-monitored-chinese-users/\n- Simon Willison on Tencent Hy3: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/6/hy3/#atom-everything","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/U8MjYsqEAUXr8sykSIjiubn3kUnZpkcAAqCjELTLubA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85YWE0/MDRlYTJkZTY4ZDhk/N2YzZjZmYzg0ZmQ2/Mzg1NC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}