Kaon AI Raises $60M for Interactive AI Entertainment
July 08, 2026: Kaon AI Raises $60M for Interactive AI Entertainment - Kaon AI, formerly FlowGPT, has raised $60 million to build AI-driven interactive entertainment. Backed by B Capital, Redpoint Ace, Goodwater Capital and DCM, the San Mateo company aims to replace static media with personalized, generative storytelling experiences. Its flagship app Emochi generates ...
Google Photos Launches AI Video Remix Tool
July 08, 2026: Google Photos Launches AI Video Remix Tool - Google Photos is rolling out a new Video Remix feature powered by Gemini Omni, enabling users to transform videos with cinematic relighting, background swaps, and artistic styles like watercolor and oil painting. The tool is accessible via the Create tab in Google Photos. The feature is available t...
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.6 Amid AI Race
July 08, 2026: OpenAI Releases GPT-5.6 Amid AI Race - OpenAI is set to publicly release GPT-5.6, rolling out new conversational AI models to users. The move comes as competition in the AI industry intensifies. Meanwhile, OpenAI's chief rival Anthropic recently restored access to its latest models following a prolonged dispute with the government that ...
OpenAI Launches GPT-Live for Human-Like Conversations
July 08, 2026: OpenAI Launches GPT-Live for Human-Like Conversations - OpenAI has released GPT-Live, a new voice system featuring two models — GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini — that can listen and speak simultaneously, replacing the existing Advanced Voice Mode. The update rolls out globally on iOS, Android, and ChatGPT.com, with GPT-Live-1 as the default for paid users...
Grok 4.5 Launches at Half Rivals' Price
July 08, 2026: Grok 4.5 Launches at Half Rivals' Price - SpaceX released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, its first AI model trained specifically for coding and autonomous agents. The launch is the first product of its $60 billion acquisition of coding startup Cursor and represents a key test of Elon Musk's vertically integrated AI strategy. Rather than competing ...
Meta's Privacy Fix Can't Hide Bigger Data Grabs
July 08, 2026: Meta's Privacy Fix Can't Hide Bigger Data Grabs - Meta announced AI glasses will disable recording if the LED indicator is tampered with, framing it as an industry-leading privacy safeguard. The move comes after users were caught covering the light to secretly record others, with Meta confirming some wearers had deliberately tried to hide their rec...
Meta Debuts AI Image Model With Code, Search Tools
July 08, 2026: Meta Debuts AI Image Model With Code, Search Tools - Meta Platforms launched Muse Image, an image generation model with web search and code-writing capabilities. The model, released through the Meta AI chatbot, can generate images from detailed prompts, edit existing photos, and use reasoning before generating output rather than the common best-of-N a...
French startup ZML launches free multi-chip AI inference tool
July 08, 2026: French startup ZML launches free multi-chip AI inference tool - ZML, a Paris-based AI startup backed by Yann LeCun and $20 million in venture funding, has launched LLMD, a free LLM inference server designed to run open-source AI models across multiple chip types including Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU, Apple Metal, and Intel Arc. The tool aims to break vendor lock-in ...
OpenAI Launches GPT-Live Real-Time Voice Models
July 08, 2026: OpenAI Launches GPT-Live Real-Time Voice Models - OpenAI has introduced GPT-Live, a new family of AI models optimized for spoken instructions, powering ChatGPT's voice mode. The lineup includes GPT-Live-1 for paid plans and GPT-Live-1-mini for free users, rolling out across iOS, Android, and web with multilingual support. Unlike its predecessor, G...
Physical AI Robots Move From Labs to Factories
July 08, 2026: Physical AI Robots Move From Labs to Factories - The Machina AI Summit revealed physical AI and robotics are entering a new deployment phase, with companies targeting high-value manufacturing and logistics use cases. Key themes included labor shortages, functional safety, cybersecurity, and sustainable business models replacing years of research-o...
Grok 4.5 Slashes AI Costs, Rivals Anthropic and OpenAI
July 08, 2026: Grok 4.5 Slashes AI Costs, Rivals Anthropic and OpenAI - SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, a new AI model priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, roughly half the cost of comparable models from Anthropic and OpenAI. The company claims the model achieves this through twice the token efficiency of rival systems, making it compe...
Radware Extends AI Agent Security to Developer Machines
July 07, 2026: Radware Extends AI Agent Security to Developer Machines - Radware has expanded its Agentic AI Protection product with compliance reporting, enhanced visibility into AI agent activity, and new protection for developer-hosted agents like Anthropic's Claude Code. The update addresses a gap left by security tools that only cover SaaS environments, extending co...
Microsoft Cuts AI Costs With In-House Models
July 07, 2026: Microsoft Cuts AI Costs With In-House Models - Microsoft is reducing its reliance on OpenAI and Anthropic by deploying its own MAI models in widely used products like Excel and Word. The shift, reported by Bloomberg, comes as the company increasingly builds its own AI infrastructure, including seven new MAI models announced at its Build conferen...
Claude Cowork Expands to Mobile and Web
July 07, 2026: Claude Cowork Expands to Mobile and Web - Anthropic is launching Claude Cowork on mobile and web starting Tuesday, expanding beyond its previous desktop-only availability on macOS and Windows. The rollout begins with Max subscribers first. Other Claude plan users will gain access in the coming weeks, marking a significant expansion of the ...
Microsoft Dumps OpenAI, Anthropic Models to Cut Costs
July 07, 2026: Microsoft Dumps OpenAI, Anthropic Models to Cut Costs - Microsoft is shifting away from OpenAI and Anthropic AI models in favor of its own MAI model family to reduce costs, according to Bloomberg. Tens of thousands of prompts in Excel and Outlook previously handled by third-party models are now routed through MAI models, though this remains a small fract...
DeepSeek Designs Own AI Chips, Ditching Nvidia
July 07, 2026: DeepSeek Designs Own AI Chips, Ditching Nvidia - DeepSeek is developing custom in-house inference chips, according to a Reuters report citing three sources familiar with the plans. The initiative, roughly a year in the making, involves talks with chip design, foundry, and memory companies, plus efforts to hire experienced chip designers. The move...
Anthropic's Cowork AI Agent Goes Mobile and Web
July 07, 2026: Anthropic's Cowork AI Agent Goes Mobile and Web - Anthropic has expanded its Claude Cowork agentic AI assistant beyond the desktop to mobile and web platforms. Previously, users had to remain at their computer to monitor tasks. Now they can start work on a laptop, step away, and manage or monitor progress remotely. Scheduled tasks can also run with...
IBM Shrinks Mainframes to Democratize Enterprise AI
July 07, 2026: IBM Shrinks Mainframes to Democratize Enterprise AI - IBM has unveiled compact versions of its z17 mainframes and LinuxONE 5 servers, designed to bring high-performance, on-premises AI infrastructure to a broader range of enterprises. The new rack-mountable z17 systems support up to 82 cores and 18 terabytes of memory, while the LinuxONE Rockhopper 5 c...
Accenture Targets Mid-Market With Google Cloud AI
July 07, 2026: Accenture Targets Mid-Market With Google Cloud AI - Accenture has launched Accenture Edge with Google Cloud, a new offering designed to bring agentic AI solutions to mid-market companies. The initiative aims to make advanced AI capabilities more accessible to mid-sized businesses, leveraging Google Cloud's infrastructure to deliver intelligent, auto...
Claude Cowork Goes Mobile as Most Users Skip Coding
July 07, 2026: Claude Cowork Goes Mobile as Most Users Skip Coding - Anthropic has launched Claude Cowork on mobile and web, expanding the tool beyond its desktop-only origins. The rollout begins in beta for Max subscribers, allowing tasks to start on one device and continue autonomously in the background, even after the app is closed. Alongside the launch, Anthropi...
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