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OpenAI Benchmark July 2026

AI Can Now Solve a Third of Real Biology Questions: What GeneBench-Pro Shows

On OpenAI's GeneBench-Pro benchmark — built from 129 problems spanning genomics, quantitative biology and translational medicine — the strongest model, GPT-5.6 Sol, reached a 28.7% success rate at its highest reasoning level, rising to 31.5% in Pro mode. I wrote about what the results mean for AI's contribution to scientific research.

UN AI Policy July 2026

The UN Gathered in Geneva for AI Governance

I wrote about the first UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, attended by 169 countries, the four topics on the agenda, and what it means for developers in Turkey.

Meta Coding Models July 2026

Meta Is Back in the Coding Race

Meta's new Muse Spark model has caught up to GPT-5.5 on SWE-Bench Pro, but Claude Opus 4.8 is still ahead. I wrote about the current state of the coding-model race, Meta's possible infrastructure-leasing plans, and what it means for developers in Turkey.

LoRA DPO Qwen3.5

Why Did the Largest Model Lose? Fine-Tuning 4 Qwen3.5 Variants for Digital Marketing

In an experiment fine-tuning four Qwen3.5 variants from 2B to 27B on the same dataset, the largest model didn't win. I wrote about how hardware constraints and data quality shaped performance, and why the 9B model turned out to be the most balanced choice.

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