July 5, 2026

A quiet day across AI apps

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No new features or app updates to report today, as the major AI companies had a quiet day on the product front.

Midjourney

The current dispute revolves around the documentation the studios will need to produce during the discovery process.

In its latest filing , Midjourney seeks to overturn that limitation, arguing that it “unfairly” allows the studios “to cherry-pick only those documents they believe support their.

Anthony Ha is TechCrunch’s weekend editor.

ChatGPT

Anyone who judges Mistral by how close it is to becoming ‘the OpenAI from Europe’ is in for disappointment.

This approach is also better suited for Mistral’s means.

In a lengthy LinkedIn post , Mensch broke down what the Paris-based company has been doing “for a living” — deploying its models and agent platform on the infrastructure of its En.

Claude Code

According to a recent Reddit post , some of that loophole-closing involved a version of Claude Code that could secretly identify Chinese users.

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