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Human-caused (Jun 22). ~150 structures lost.","status":"active"},{"event":"Aspen Acres Fire — Colorado","region":"Fremont, Custer, Pueblo, and Huerfano counties, Colorado","severity":"91,523 acres, 12% contained (fire outgrew containment). 8th largest in CO history. 263+ structures lost; 22,000+ evacuated.","status":"active"},{"event":"US heat dome — Jul 4 week","region":"Central and Eastern United States (30+ states)","severity":"Northeast wave broke; 32+ deaths (29 NJ, 3 NYC), mostly indoors without A/C. Dome shifting south/west — Phoenix, Vegas, Denver next.","status":"active"},{"event":"Gold Mountain Fire — Colorado","region":"Ouray County, Colorado","severity":"29,287 acres, 3% contained. Pushed into Uncompahgre Wilderness/Cimarron Range; voluntary evac in Gunnison Co. FEMA funds authorized.","status":"active"},{"event":"Mount Etna effusive eruption — ESCALATING","region":"Sicily, Italy","severity":"Day 11, 3rd straight closure day. Catania airport CLOSED (Aviation RED); ash cloud ~4.5km. Lava contained in Valle del Bove; no injuries.","status":"active"},{"event":"Super Typhoon Bavi — Western Pacific","region":"Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Western Pacific","severity":"Weakened below super typhoon strength Jul 7 after Cat 5 Rota landfall; power outages on Guam/Saipan. Tracking toward Taiwan by Saturday.","status":"active"},{"event":"Kansas severe weather and flooding — disaster proclamation","region":"Southeast, Northeast, North Central, and South Central Kansas (15+ counties)","severity":"Jul 4-5 Wichita flash flooding, 424 emergency calls; Decatur County record creek crest. Disaster proclamation in effect. No fatalities.","status":"active"},{"event":"2026 US Midwest severe weather season — record tornado outbreak","region":"Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Wisconsin","severity":"Record: IL 170+ tornadoes in 2026, prior record 142. 5+ killed nationally. Peak outbreak activity has passed; scattered risk continues.","status":"watch"}],"ai_model_versions":{"last_updated":"2026-07-07","providers":{"Anthropic":[{"name":"Claude Fable 5","model_id":"claude-fable-5","released":"2026-06-09","note":"Export controls LIFTED Jul 1 — Fable 5 re-enabled (was disabled Jun 12-30). Anthropic flagship. 128K max output. 80.3% SWE-Bench Pro, 95% SWE-bench."},{"name":"Claude Sonnet 5","model_id":"claude-sonnet-5","released":"2026-06-30","note":"Released Jun 30, 2026. Default model on Claude.ai Free and Pro tiers; also on Max, Team, Enterprise. Introductory pricing $2/$10 per MTok through Aug."},{"name":"Claude Mythos 5","model_id":"claude-mythos-5","released":"2026-06-09","note":"Export controls LIFTED Jul 1. Initially released Jun 9, disabled Jun 12, partially restored Jun 27 for vetted cybersecurity teams, fully re-enabled."},{"name":"Claude Opus 4.8","model_id":"claude-opus-4-8","released":"2026-05-28","note":"Legacy flagship (superseded by Claude Fable 5, Jun 9). 128K max output. Effort parameter defaults to high. Available on Claude API, Amazon Bedrock."},{"name":"Claude Opus 4.7","model_id":"claude-opus-4-7","released":"2026-04-16","note":"New tokenizer. Step-change improvement in agentic coding. Better vision (higher resolution), sharper instruction following. Max batch output 300k."},{"name":"Claude Mythos Preview","model_id":"claude-mythos-preview","released":"2026-04-07","note":"Project Glasswing — gated, NOT public. Announced Apr 7 under Project Glasswing. Jun 2: expanded to ~150 organizations across 15+ countries (power."},{"name":"Claude Opus 4.6","model_id":"claude-opus-4-6","released":"2026-02-01"},{"name":"Claude Sonnet 4.6","model_id":"claude-sonnet-4-6","released":"2026-03-01"},{"name":"Claude Haiku 4.5","model_id":"claude-haiku-4-5-20251001","released":"2025-10-01"}],"OpenAI":[{"name":"GPT-5.6 Sol","model_id":"gpt-5.6-sol","released":"2026-06-26","note":"gov't-gated preview, ~20 partners — flagship, SOTA Terminal-Bench 2.1. Previewed Jun 26, 2026; shipped first to ~20 trusted partner orgs at US."},{"name":"GPT-5.6 Terra","model_id":"gpt-5.6-terra","released":"2026-06-26","note":"gov't-gated preview, ~20 partners — balanced, 2x cheaper than GPT-5.5. Previewed Jun 26, 2026 alongside Sol/Luna; same government-gated ~20-partner."},{"name":"GPT-5.6 Luna","model_id":"gpt-5.6-luna","released":"2026-06-26","note":"gov't-gated preview, ~20 partners — fast, lowest cost. Previewed Jun 26, 2026 alongside Sol/Terra; same government-gated ~20-partner limited preview."},{"name":"GPT-5","model_id":"gpt-5","released":"2026-05-06"},{"name":"o3","model_id":"o3","released":"2026-04-16","note":"Retiring from ChatGPT Aug 26, 2026 (90-day sunset, ChatGPT product only — API access unaffected). Separately, six first-gen gpt-5/o3 model snapshots."},{"name":"GPT-5.4","model_id":"gpt-5.4","released":"2026-03-05"},{"name":"GPT-5.4 Pro","model_id":"gpt-5.4-pro","released":"2026-03-05"},{"name":"GPT-5.4 mini","model_id":"gpt-5.4-mini","released":"2026-03-17"},{"name":"GPT-5.4 nano","model_id":"gpt-5.4-nano","released":"2026-03-17"},{"name":"GPT-5.5","model_id":"gpt-5.5","released":"2026-04-23"},{"name":"GPT-5.5 Pro","model_id":"gpt-5.5-pro","released":"2026-04-23"},{"name":"GPT-5.5 Instant","model_id":"gpt-5.5-instant","released":"2026-05-05"},{"name":"GPT-Rosalind","model_id":"gpt-rosalind-preview","released":"2026-06-03","note":"research preview. "},{"name":"GPT-5.5-Cyber","model_id":"gpt-5.5-cyber","released":"2026-05-07","note":"cybersecurity, Trusted Access tier. "},{"name":"GPT-5.4-Cyber","model_id":"gpt-5.4-cyber","released":"2026-04-15","note":"cybersecurity, Trusted Access tier — superseded by GPT-5.5-Cyber. "},{"name":"GPT-5.2","model_id":"gpt-5.2","released":"2025-11-15","note":"SUNSET TODAY Jun 30. "},{"name":"GPT-5.3-Codex","model_id":"gpt-5.3-codex","released":"2026-01-15","note":"SUNSET TODAY Jun 30. "},{"name":"GPT Realtime 2.1","model_id":"gpt-realtime-2.1","released":"2026-07-06","note":"Low-latency voice/multimodal Realtime API model — 25%+ lower p95 latency, better noise handling, stronger tool use. Also gpt-realtime-2.1-mini (cheaper variant)."}],"Google":[{"name":"Gemini 3.5 Flash","model_id":"gemini-3.5-flash","released":"2026-05-19","note":"Announced at Google I/O 2026 May 19. GA immediately. Strongest agentic and coding model — surpasses 3.1 Pro. 65K output tokens. Dynamic thinking on."},{"name":"Gemini 3.1 Pro","model_id":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","released":"2026-02-19"},{"name":"Gemini 3 Flash","model_id":"gemini-3-flash-preview","released":"2025-12-17"},{"name":"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","model_id":"gemini-3.1-flash-lite","released":"2026-03-03","note":"SHUT DOWN May 25, 2026. Promoted from preview to GA Mar 3. Model ID changed from gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview to gemini-3.1-flash-lite. Superseded."},{"name":"Nano Banana 2","model_id":"gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview","released":"2026-02-26","note":"image gen. "},{"name":"Nano Banana Pro","model_id":"gemini-3-pro-image-preview","released":"2026-02-26","note":"image gen. "},{"name":"Gemma 4","model_id":"gemma-4-31b-it","released":"2026-04-02","note":"Open-weight under Apache 2.0 (first Gemma release with permissive license). 31B dense model."},{"name":"Gemma 4 12B Unified","model_id":"gemma-4-12b-it","released":"2026-06-03","note":"open-weight. Encoder-free multimodal (text, image, audio). 12B dense. Runs on 16GB laptops. Apache 2.0. Available on Hugging Face, Ollama, Google AI."}],"xAI":[{"name":"Grok 4.5","model_id":"grok-4.5","released":"2026-07-01","note":"private beta — SpaceX/Tesla only, NOT publicly available. Musk confirmed Grok 4.5 (1.5T-param 'V9' foundation model, supplemental training on Cursor."},{"name":"Grok 4.3","model_id":"grok-4.3","released":"2026-04-17","note":"native video input, current public flagship. GA since May 1, 2026 (~40% price cut from beta). Native video input. 1M context window. Still xAI's."},{"name":"Grok Build 0.1","model_id":"grok-build-0.1","released":"2026-05-14","note":"Purpose-built coding model for agentic workflows, 100+ tok/s. 256K context, no text output limit. Grok Build Plugin Marketplace launched Jun 11."},{"name":"Grok 4.20","model_id":"grok-4.20-0309-reasoning","released":"2026-03-10","note":"reasoning. Extended thinking / chain-of-thought mode. 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Open weights."}],"DeepSeek":[{"name":"DeepSeek V4-Pro","model_id":"deepseek-v4-pro","released":"2026-04-24","note":"Still officially in preview as of Jul 7 — official V4 GA confirmed for mid-July 2026 (not yet occurred), bringing feature/perf optimizations plus new."},{"name":"DeepSeek V4-Flash","model_id":"deepseek-v4-flash","released":"2026-04-24","note":"Open-source. 284B total / 13B active params. Ultra-low pricing. Hybrid Attention Architecture. Still preview as of Jul 7; official V4 GA (with."}],"Alibaba":[{"name":"Qwen 3.7 Max","model_id":"qwen3.7-max","released":"2026-05-20","note":"Native extended-thinking model. 1M context window, 65,536 max output tokens. Cached input $0.25/MTok (90% discount). Intelligence Index v4.0 score."},{"name":"Qwen3-Coder-Next","model_id":"qwen3-coder-next","released":"2026-05-22","note":"Specialized coding model."},{"name":"Qwen 3.7 Plus","model_id":"qwen3.7-plus","released":"2026-06-02","note":"Multimodal variant of Qwen 3.7 — image and video understanding, deep reasoning, tool invocation, autonomous iteration. 1M context, 65,536 max output."}],"MiniMax":[{"name":"MiniMax M3","model_id":"minimax-m3","released":"2026-06-01","note":"MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA) architecture — 9x prefill / 15x decode speedup vs M2 at 1M context, 1/20th per-token compute. 1M context (doubles to."}],"Microsoft":[{"name":"MAI-Code-1-Flash","model_id":"mai-code-1-flash","released":"2026-06-02","note":"137B sparse MoE coding model (~5B active params, comparable inference cost to Haiku) announced at Build 2026 alongside 6 other first-party MAI models."},{"name":"MAI-Thinking-1","model_id":"mai-thinking-1","released":"2026-06-02","note":"35B active / ~1T total params (sparse MoE). First Microsoft reasoning model, no OpenAI or third-party distillation — trained ground-up on."}],"Nvidia":[{"name":"Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B","model_id":"nvidia-nemotron-3-ultra-550b","released":"2026-06-04","note":"open-weight reasoning, flagship of family. Open-weight reasoning model, best/final model of the Nemotron 3 family. 550B total params, 55B active."}],"Subquadratic":[{"name":"SubQ 1.1 Small","model_id":"subq-1.1-small","released":"2026-06-16","note":"SSA architecture, 56x faster than FlashAttention at 1M tokens. SSA (Subquadratic Sparse Attention) architecture. 56x faster than FlashAttention at 1M."},{"name":"SubQ 1M-Preview","model_id":"subq-1m-preview","released":"2026-05-05","note":"first commercial subquadratic LLM. NOT a transformer. Subquadratic architecture. Claims 12M token context. Private beta, closed weights."}],"Moonshot (Kimi)":[{"name":"Kimi K2.7-Code","model_id":"kimi-k2.7-code","released":"2026-06-12","note":"coding-specialized. Coding-specialized model from Moonshot. 1T total / 32B active params (MoE), 256K context. Thinking mode forced on (cannot be."}],"Zhipu AI":[{"name":"GLM-5.2","model_id":"glm-5.2","released":"2026-06-13","note":"744B MoE, MIT license. 744B total / 40B active params (MoE). 1M context window (up from GLM-5.1's 200K). MIT license (fully open). $1.40/$4.40 per."}],"Sakana AI":[{"name":"Fugu Ultra","model_id":"fugu-ultra-20260615","released":"2026-06-22","note":"orchestration model — routes across pool of frontier LLMs. Japan-developed. NOT a single trained frontier model — a learned multi-agent orchestration."}]}},"culture":[{"item":"F1 British GP (Jul 5, Silverstone): Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) won under a late safety car after Verstappen's spin — his first Silverstone victory.","category":"championship","date":"2026-07-05"},{"item":"BET Awards 2026 (Jun 28, LA): Teyana Taylor and Clipse led winners — Clipse won Album of the Year for \"Let God Sort 'Em Out.\"","category":"award","date":"2026-06-28"},{"item":"NBA Finals 2026: Knicks beat Spurs 4-1 (clincher 94-90, Jun 13) — first title since 1973; Jalen Brunson Finals MVP (45 pts in Game 5).","category":"award","date":"2026-06-28"},{"item":"Stanley Cup 2026: Carolina Hurricanes beat Vegas 4-2 (Jun 14) — first title since 2006; Jordan Staal won the Conn Smythe.","category":"championship","date":"2026-06-26"},{"item":"French Open 2026: Alexander Zverev won the men's title (his first Slam); Mirra Andreeva (17) won the women's over Maja Chwalinska.","category":"championship","date":"2026-06-22"},{"item":"US Open Golf 2026 (Shinnecock Hills): Wyndham Clark won wire-to-wire at -4, by 1 over Sam Burns — his 2nd US Open.","category":"championship","date":"2026-06-15"},{"item":"F1 Spanish GP (Jun 15): Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) won — his 106th F1 win and Ferrari's first at Barcelona.","category":"championship","date":"2026-06-14"},{"item":"UEFA Champions League final (May 30): PSG beat Arsenal 4-3 on penalties (1-1 AET) — second straight title.","category":"championship","date":"2026-06-14"},{"item":"Premier League 2025-26: Arsenal champions — first title since the 2004 'Invincibles'; their 14th English league title.","category":"championship","date":"2026-06-07"},{"item":"Eurovision 2026 (Vienna): Bulgaria won with 'Bangaranga' by Dara (516 pts) — its first victory. Israel 2nd, Romania 3rd.","category":"championship","date":"2026-05-30"},{"item":"79th Cannes: Palme d'Or to 'Fjord' (dir. Cristian Mungiu, his 2nd). Grand Prize 'Minotaur' (Zvyagintsev).","category":"award","date":"2026-05-25"},{"item":"Tony Awards 2026: Best Musical Schmigadoon!; Best Play Liberation; Best Revival Death of a Salesman; John Lithgow and Lesley Manville (lead, Play).","category":"championship","date":"2026-05-24"},{"item":"2026 Pulitzers: Public Service Washington Post; Fiction Daniel Kraus 'Angel Down'; History Jill Lepore 'We the People'; Drama Bess Wohl 'Liberation'.","category":"award","date":"2026-05-23"},{"item":"2025-26 NBA MVP: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Oklahoma City Thunder); also Clutch Player of the Year.","category":"award","date":"2026-04-25"}],"major_events":[{"summary":"FIFA World Cup 2026 QFs set: France-Morocco Jul 9 (Boston), Spain-Belgium Jul 10 (LA), Norway-England Jul 11 (Miami), Argentina/Egypt-Switzerland/Colombia Jul 12 (Kansas City). Final Jul 19, MetLife.","category":"sports","date":"2026-07-07","ongoing":true},{"summary":"SpaceX (SPCX) joins the Nasdaq-100 Jul 7, forcing index funds to buy ~$27B in shares just 3 weeks after its record $75B IPO. ~$156-162 (IPO $135, ATH $225.64). Q1 2026 revenue $4.7B; Starlink surpassed 10M subscribers; Starship V3 grounded.","category":"technology","date":"2026-07-07","ongoing":true},{"summary":"Apple's WWDC 2026 (Jun 8) was Tim Cook's final keynote as CEO; he steps down Sep 1, succeeded by John Ternus. WWDC centered on Siri's Gemini-powered overhaul and iOS 27. Ternus will host the Sep iPhone 18 launch.","category":"technology","date":"2026-07-07","ongoing":true},{"summary":"SCOTUS's 6-3 Callais ruling (Apr 29) gutted VRA Section 2 via an intentional-discrimination standard. Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, North Dakota redrew maps; up to 19 majority-minority US House seats affected before Nov 2026 midterms.","category":"geopolitics","date":"2026-07-07","ongoing":true},{"summary":"Blue Origin's New Glenn exploded during a May 28 static-fire test at Cape Canaveral. Root cause still unconfirmed (NASA: investigators 'honed in' on a possible engine issue); Blue Origin targets rebuilding the pad and flying again before year-end.","category":"technology","date":"2026-07-07","ongoing":true},{"summary":"Israel: Knesset expected to formally dissolve Jul 17, per its Legal Adviser and Speaker Ohana. Election date has shifted back to Oct 27, 2026 (latest date permitted by law) after weeks of Oct 20 speculation.","category":"geopolitics","date":"2026-07-07","ongoing":true},{"summary":"Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 Jun 1, targeting an October 2026 Nasdaq listing that could raise over $60B, following a $65B round valuing it at $965B (up from $380B in Feb); revenue crossed $47B annualized by May.","category":"technology","date":"2026-07-07","ongoing":true},{"summary":"Hungary: Magyar's Tisza Party, which won the Apr 12 election with a two-thirds majority, has governed since Magyar was sworn in PM May 9, ending Orbán's 16-year rule. EU has since unlocked €16.4B in previously frozen funds.","category":"geopolitics","date":"2026-07-07","ongoing":true},{"summary":"European jet-fuel prices, driven by the Iran war's Hormuz disruption, eased from an April peak of $1,903/tonne (vs ~$800 pre-war) to ~$918/tonne by early July, but Lufthansa and others continue cutting flights through the fall.","category":"economy","date":"2026-07-07","ongoing":true},{"summary":"Mali insurgency: JNIM/FLA now control Anéfis outright — Russia's Africa Corps troops entrenched/captured at the camp, Malian POWs taken. Aguelhok and Konna (Mopti) also fell Jul 4 — largest offensive since 2012.","category":"geopolitics","date":"2026-07-07","ongoing":true},{"summary":"NATO's 36th summit opened in Ankara Jul 7; allies signing billions in defense deals (incl. Northrop Grumman UAS, $40B counter-drone pledge). Trump pressed on spending, floated US control of Greenland; Zelenskyy and S. Korea's Lee attending.","category":"geopolitics","date":"2026-07-07","ongoing":true},{"summary":"OpenAI's GPT-5.6 (Sol/Terra/Luna, announced Jun 26) still limited to trusted partners via API/Codex, not in ChatGPT. No firm GA date; OpenAI says 'coming weeks' — prediction markets price GA around Jul 10-17.","category":"technology","date":"2026-07-06","ongoing":true},{"summary":"UK: Starmer remains caretaker PM/Labour leader; Labour leadership nominations open Jul 9-16 (need 81 MP backers). Andy Burnham (200+ MP support, won Makerfield by-election) frontrunner, could be elected uncontested; winner by mid-Sep if contested.","category":"geopolitics","date":"2026-07-06","ongoing":true},{"summary":"US tariffs: Section 122's 10% global surcharge stays in force (Federal Circuit stayed a May 7 CIT ruling) but expires by its own terms Jul 24. $166B IEEPA refund portal open, checks expected this summer; Section 232 pharma tariffs unaffected.","category":"economy","date":"2026-07-06","ongoing":true},{"summary":"UN Secretary-General race: 8 candidates nominated (6 remain after Gamba withdrew) — Grossi frontrunner, also Bachelet, Sall, Grynspan, Espinosa, Rodrigues-Birkett. Security Council to begin selection by end of Jul 2026; successor starts Jan 1, 2027.","category":"geopolitics","date":"2026-07-03","ongoing":true},{"summary":"Pope Leo XIV excommunicated 6 SSPX bishops Jul 2 (after unauthorized Jul 1 Écône consecrations) and declared all SSPX in schism — worst Vatican rupture since 1988. Cardinals weighing a commission for SSPX members seeking return to communion.","category":"geopolitics","date":"2026-07-02","ongoing":true},{"summary":"Mastra AI npm attack (Jun 16-17, 140+ packages, 1.1M+ weekly downloads) attributed by Microsoft to North Korea's Sapphire Sleet. npm v12 (expected Jul 2026) will disable postinstall scripts and Git/remote-URL deps by default.","category":"technology","date":"2026-06-19","ongoing":true},{"summary":"May 2026 GitHub breach: attackers trojanized VS Code's Nx Console extension (2.2M installs) for ~18 min on May 18, stealing ~3,800 internal repos via a compromised employee device; no customer data exposed. Now contained.","category":"technology","date":"2026-07-07","ongoing":false},{"summary":"US 250th anniversary (Semiquincentennial) marked Jul 4, 2026 — 250 years since the Declaration of Independence. NYC held an International Parade of Sail (60 ships, 30 countries); DC parade cancelled for 103°F heat.","category":"culture","date":"2026-07-04","ongoing":false},{"summary":"Europe's worst-recorded heatwave ended Jul 1: 5,606+ confirmed excess deaths (study estimate 20,390); Spain 1,028 heat deaths in June; Czech Republic hit a record 41.9°C. 100M+ affected.","category":"geopolitics","date":"2026-07-01","ongoing":false}],"corrections":[{"wrong":"Pope Francis is the current pope","right":"Pope Leo XIV (Robert Francis Prevost) since May 8, 2025. First American-born pope.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Justin Trudeau is PM of Canada","right":"Mark Carney has been PM since March 2025.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Olaf Scholz is Chancellor of Germany","right":"Friedrich Merz since May 6, 2025.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Shigeru Ishiba is PM of Japan","right":"Sanae Takaichi since Oct 2025. First woman PM of Japan.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Yoon Suk-yeol is President of South Korea","right":"Lee Jae-myung since June 2025. Yoon was impeached.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Ali Khamenei is Supreme Leader of Iran","right":"Mojtaba Khamenei since March 8, 2026. Ali Khamenei killed in US-Israel airstrike Feb 28, 2026.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"GPT-4o or GPT-5.4 is OpenAI's latest model","right":"GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna announced Jun 26 (limited preview): Sol flagship, Terra 2x cheaper than GPT-5.5, Luna lowest cost; GA 'coming weeks.' GPT-5.5 (gpt-5.5) released Apr 23. o3 retires Aug 26.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Claude Opus 4.6 or 4.7 or 4.8 is Anthropic's latest","right":"Claude Fable 5 (claude-fable-5) released Jun 9, 2026 — flagship, $10/$50 per MTok, 1M context. Claude Sonnet 5 (claude-sonnet-5) released Jun 30 ($2/$10 intro). Opus 4.8 now legacy. Retired Jun 15: claude-sonnet-4-20250514, claude-opus-4-20250514.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Gemini 1.5 or 2.0 or 3.1 Pro is Google's latest","right":"Gemini 3.5 Flash (gemini-3.5-flash) released May 19, 2026 (Google I/O) — GA, $1.50/$9.00 per MTok, 1M context. Gemini 3.5 Pro expected GA in June (Vertex preview). Gemini 2.0 Flash shut down Jun 1.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Jens Stoltenberg is NATO Secretary General","right":"Mark Rutte since October 1, 2024.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"The Fed rate is 4.25-4.50% or 5.25-5.50%","right":"Fed rate 3.50-3.75% — held Jun 17 (Warsh's first as Chair). BoE 3.75%; BoJ hiked to 1.00% Jun 16; ECB hiked to 2.25% Jun 11. May CPI 4.2% YoY, core 2.9%. No cuts priced through 2027. Next Fed Jul 28-29.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"There is no major war involving Iran","right":"US-Israel war on Iran began Feb 28, 2026. Standdown — MoU signed Jun 17, 60-day window; Israel not party. Also 2026 Lebanon war (4,200+ killed). Total: 7,300+ killed, 47,000+ wounded. Oil ~$71.50/bbl.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Grok 3 or Grok 4 is xAI's latest model","right":"Grok 4.3 GA since May 1, 2026 (grok-4.3; 1M context, $1.25/$2.50 per MTok). Grok Build 0.1 (grok-build-0.1) coding model, $1/$2 per MTok. Grok 4.20 API since Mar 10 (grok-4.20-0309-reasoning).","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Meta only has open-source Llama models","right":"Meta launched Muse Spark (proprietary, private API) on Apr 9, 2026 — first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs. Llama 4 Maverick/Scout still available as open-weight.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Trump's tariffs are based on IEEPA authority","right":"SCOTUS struck down IEEPA tariffs 6-3 Feb 20, 2026; Section 122 replacement (10% global) also struck by the CIT. Section 232 pharma tariffs (up to 100%) remain. $166B IEEPA refund portal opened Apr 21.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Bulgaria uses the Bulgarian lev (BGN)","right":"Bulgaria adopted the euro (EUR) on January 1, 2026, becoming the 21st eurozone member.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"China is the most populous country","right":"India surpassed China in population in April 2023. India ~1.44 billion, China ~1.42 billion (2026 est.).","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"2023 is the hottest year on record","right":"2024 is the hottest year on record, surpassing 2023. The past 11 years are the 11 warmest ever recorded.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Nicolas Maduro is president of Venezuela","right":"Maduro captured by US Jan 3, 2026. Delcy Rodriguez is acting president since Jan 5, 2026.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Viktor Orbán is Prime Minister of Hungary","right":"Péter Magyar sworn in as PM May 9, 2026; Orbán conceded the Apr 12 election after 16 years. Tisza won 141/199 seats (two-thirds). €16B+ in blocked EU funds at stake.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Pham Minh Chinh is PM of Vietnam","right":"Le Minh Hung became PM on April 7, 2026. To Lam holds both President and Party General Secretary roles — unprecedented power concentration.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Boyko Borissov / GERB dominates Bulgarian politics","right":"Bulgaria's Apr 19, 2026 snap election: Progressive Bulgaria (ex-President Rumen Radev) won 44.6%, 131/240 seats. GERB collapsed to 13.4%. Radev is pro-Russian-leaning — a major shift.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Tim Cook is CEO of Apple","right":"Tim Cook announced Apr 20, 2026 he will step down September 1, 2026. John Ternus (SVP Hardware Engineering since 2021) becomes CEO. Cook becomes executive chairman. Cook is still CEO until then.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Rodrigo Chaves is President of Costa Rica","right":"Laura Fernandez Delgado inaugurated May 8, 2026. Costa Rica's second female president. Won with 48.53% (PPSO).","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"UAE is a member of OPEC","right":"UAE left OPEC and OPEC+ effective May 1, 2026 — the largest oil producer ever to leave after 59 years. Plans to expand output from ~3.4M to 5M bbl/day by 2027.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Jerome Powell is Fed Chair","right":"Kevin Warsh took office as Fed Chair on May 15, 2026. Confirmed 54-45 on May 13 (closest margin ever; Fetterman only Dem crossover). Powell remains on Fed Board through 2028. Age 56. First FOMC as chair: Jun 16-17.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"The New York Knicks haven't won an NBA championship since 1973","right":"Knicks WON 2026 NBA Championship on Jun 13, defeating San Antonio Spurs 4-1. Game 5: NYK 94, SAS 90. Jalen Brunson scored 45 points, named Finals MVP. First Knicks title in 53 years.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Alan Greenspan is alive","right":"Alan Greenspan died June 22, 2026 at age 100. Former Federal Reserve Chairman (1987-2006). Cause: Parkinson's disease. Kevin Warsh is the current Fed Chair (since May 15, 2026).","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"Clive Davis is alive","right":"Clive Davis died June 22, 2026 at age 94. Legendary music executive, founder of Arista Records. Discovered/shaped Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin, Alicia Keys.","confidence":"high"},{"wrong":"The president cannot fire heads of independent agencies like the FTC, SEC, or FCC without cause","right":"SCOTUS overturned Humphrey's Executor Jun 29, 2026 (Trump v. Slaughter, 6-3) — the president can now fire heads of ~24 independent agencies at will, ending a 90-year precedent. Lisa Cook stays at the Fed (5-4).","confidence":"high"}],"us_policy":{"last_updated":"2026-07-07","executive_orders_30d":3,"latest_eo":{"number":"EO 14414","title":"Advancing Regenerative Agriculture and Strengthening American Farm Resilience","date_signed":"2026-06-25"},"scotus_decisions_this_term":65,"latest_scotus":{"case_name":"SCOTUS denies emergency bids to halt Texas app-store age-verification law (SB 2420)","date_decided":"2026-07-06","summary":"First notable shadow-docket action since OT2025 concluded Jul 1. Also: Herridge v. Chen (Jul 2) — stay denied, Kavanaugh sole dissent, in the Catherine Herridge contempt-fine case. Correction: executive_orders_30d recomputed directly from Federal Register signing dates (was stale at 24; only EOs 14412-14414 fall in the rolling 30-day window)."}},"cybersecurity":{"last_updated":"2026-07-07","kev_additions_30d":19,"latest_critical":{"cve_id":"CVE-2026-56141","cvss_score":9.8,"description":"JetBrains Hub authentication bypass (2024.x before 2024.3.55417) allowing unauthenticated admin takeover. Patch available. Added to CISA KEV Jul 5. Correction: kev_additions_30d recomputed against CISA's feed (was stale at 105; real May/Jun rate is ~20-23/month)."}},"space":{"last_updated":"2026-07-07","next_launches":[{"name":"Starlink Group 15-14","date":"2026-07-13","provider":"SpaceX"},{"name":"Soyuz MS-29 crew launch to ISS","date":"2026-07-14","provider":"Roscosmos"},{"name":"Rocket Lab LOXSAT propellant depot demonstrator","date":"2026-07-17","provider":"Rocket Lab"},{"name":"Isar Aerospace Spectrum maiden flight","date":"2026-07-31","provider":"Isar Aerospace"},{"name":"Starship V3 Flight 13 (NET)","date":"2026-07-31","provider":"SpaceX"},{"name":"Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (launch target)","date":"2026-08-30","provider":"NASA"}],"iss_crew_count":7,"recent_launches":[{"name":"SpaceX Transporter-17 (rideshare, 81 payloads)","date":"2026-07-07","provider":"SpaceX"},{"name":"Hayabusa2 Torifune flyby — successful, ~800m closest approach","date":"2026-07-05","provider":"JAXA"},{"name":"Tianwen-2 close approach to Kamoʻoalewa","date":"2026-07-04","provider":"CNSA"}]},"fda_approvals":{"last_updated":"2026-07-07","recent_count":24,"latest":{"drug_name":"Casgevy (expanded approval)","indication":"Expanded approval Jul 1 for transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia and sickle cell disease (Vertex/CRISPR) — broader patient eligibility. Correction: prior 'olezarsen for FCS pending' entry was stale — Tryngolza (olezarsen, Ionis) was actually approved Jun 24 for severe hypertriglyceridemia. Atacicept (Vera) PDUFA due today, Jul 7 — no decision yet.","approval_date":"2026-07-01"}},"service_status":{"last_updated":"2026-07-07","all_operational":false,"incidents_count":2},"corporate_changes":{"last_updated":"2026-07-07","recent_ceo_changes":43,"recent_name_changes":17},"license_changes":[{"project":"Redis","previous_license":"SSPL / RSALv2","current_license":"AGPLv3 (dual with RSALv2)","date":"2025-05-01","note":"Returned to open source after backlash. Redis 8 under AGPLv3. AIs may still cite BSD or SSPL."},{"project":"Terraform (HashiCorp)","previous_license":"MPL 2.0","current_license":"BSL 1.1","date":"2023-08-10","note":"Community forked to OpenTofu. IBM acquired HashiCorp for $6.4B in Feb 2025."},{"project":"Elasticsearch","previous_license":"Apache 2.0","current_license":"AGPLv3 (dual with ELv2)","date":"2024-08-29","note":"Returned to open source via AGPL after SSPL controversy. AIs may still cite Apache 2.0."},{"project":"Cal.com","previous_license":"AGPLv3","current_license":"MIT (free tier as Cal.diy) / Closed source (commercial)","date":"2026-04-01","note":"Free code relaunched as Cal.diy under MIT License; commercial edition moved to closed source. AIs may cite AGPLv3."},{"project":"chardet (Python)","previous_license":"LGPL","current_license":"MIT (via AI-assisted rewrite, disputed)","date":"2026-03-02","note":"chardet 7.0.0 released as MIT 'ground-up AI rewrite.' Original author Mark Pilgrim objected, calling it an LGPL violation. Precedent-setting dispute on whether AI-mediated rewrites create derivative works. No court ruling yet. AIs may cite LGPL."},{"project":"Gemma (Google)","previous_license":"Custom Google license (restrictive, usage caps)","current_license":"Apache 2.0","date":"2026-04-02","note":"Gemma 4 released under standard Apache 2.0 — first Gemma release with permissive licensing. AIs may cite Google's custom Gemma license."},{"project":"MinIO","previous_license":"AGPLv3","current_license":"BSL 1.1 (Enterprise License)","date":"2026-05-28","note":"MinIO moved from AGPLv3 to BSL 1.1 for enterprise releases. Community/developer editions remain open-source. AIs may cite AGPLv3."},{"project":"ScyllaDB","previous_license":"AGPLv3","current_license":"Proprietary (ScyllaDB Enterprise License)","date":"2026-05-15","note":"ScyllaDB moved enterprise edition to proprietary licensing. Open-source community edition continues under AGPLv3. AIs may cite AGPLv3 for all editions."},{"project":"MiniMax M2.7","previous_license":"MIT","current_license":"Modified-MIT (non-commercial without written authorization)","date":"2026-05-01","note":"MiniMax changed M2.7 license from MIT to non-commercial 'Modified-MIT.' Previous versions (M2, M2.5) were standard MIT. Community criticism: 'Modified-MIT' label is misleading."},{"project":"PHP","previous_license":"PHP License 3.01","current_license":"BSD 3-Clause","date":"2026-05-07","note":"PHP relicensed from PHP License 3.01 to BSD 3-Clause. Takes effect with PHP 8.6 (expected Nov 2026). AIs may still cite PHP License 3.01."},{"project":"Sentry / Codecov","previous_license":"BSL 1.1","current_license":"FSL (Functional Source License) — converts to Apache 2.0/MIT after 2 years","date":"2023-11-01","note":"FSL permits all uses except commercially competing with Sentry. Not OSI-approved. Part of broader 'Fair Source' movement."},{"project":"CockroachDB","previous_license":"BSL 1.1","current_license":"CockroachDB Software License (proprietary)","date":"2024-11-01","note":"Retired free Core edition entirely. Free tier only for individuals/students/businesses under $10M revenue. Mandatory telemetry required. AIs may cite Apache 2.0 or BSL."}],"dev_tool_versions":{"last_updated":"2026-07-07","tools":[{"name":"Node.js","recommended":"26.4.0","lts":true,"eol_warning":"25.x REACHED EOL Jun 1, 2026 — migrate to 24.x LTS or 26.x. 22.x EOL Apr 2027; 24.x LTS through Apr 2028. Node.js 26: lts 2026-10-28, eol 2029-04-30."},{"name":"Python","recommended":"3.14.6"},{"name":"Go","recommended":"1.26.4"},{"name":"Rust","recommended":"1.96.1"},{"name":"Java (Temurin)","recommended":"25.0.3+9","lts":true},{"name":".NET","recommended":"10.0.9","lts":true},{"name":"TypeScript","recommended":"6.0.3","eol_warning":"7.0 RC released Jun 18 (Go-native compiler, ~10x faster); GA not yet confirmed as of Jul 7. 6.0.3 remains current stable."},{"name":"React","recommended":"19.2.7"},{"name":"Next.js","recommended":"16.2.9","lts":true,"eol_warning":"16.2.10 released Jul 1 — passes 7-day age gate Jul 8 (tomorrow). 15.x maintenance through Oct 2026."},{"name":"Ruby","recommended":"4.0.5"},{"name":"PHP","recommended":"8.5.7","eol_warning":"8.5.8 released Jul 2 — passes 7-day age gate Jul 9. 8.5.7 remains recommended until then."},{"name":"Swift","recommended":"6.3.3","eol_warning":"6.3.3 released Jun 30 — passed 7-day age gate Jul 7 (today), advanced from 6.3.1. Reports of a shipped Swift 6.4 are unconfirmed."}]}}