Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of July 16th, 2026. OpenAI launched its first branded hardware, Codex Micro, a $230 light up mechanical keypad built with Work Louder that lets developers control coding agents with a joystick, dial, and color coded keys, landing exactly one week after Apple sued OpenAI over trade secrets tied to its unreleased Jony Ive hardware. Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, its first ever model and a rare open weights, U.S. built option pitched on customization over raw benchmark scores, needing a third of the tokens Nvidia's Nemotron uses to match its coding results. Plus, research team Weco showed early recursive self improvement with an agent called AIDE2 that redesigned its own research process over eight days and beat a version engineers had spent two years refining, testing 100 rewrites and keeping the seven that actually worked, and today's community workflow comes from Paul in Reading, UK, who used Claude Code to replace an entire stack of WordPress plugins for his volunteer run family history society, automating event publishing across eight social platforms and building custom tools with full documentation to protect against losing the one person who understood how everything worked.
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