XAI released Grok 4.6, a model built for long-running agents and ambitious coding, research, visual, and interactive work, scoring 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, up from 56 for Grok…
Google is developing a dedicated agents management interface within AI Studio, adding a workbench tab that lists available agents, a project switcher scoped to Google Cloud projects, and a graphical e…
OpenAI plans to offer U.S. college students a free year of ChatGPT Plus, its largest student giveaway yet, with enrollment verified through SheerID and limited to an allowlist of more than 220 campuse…
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model for local AI agents, available now on HuggingFace under Apache 2.0. The model, from Meta Superintelligence Labs, targets developers…
Google appears to be preparing to retire Gems on October 20, based on a notice behind a feature flag in the Gemini web app, advising users to save data and suggesting they may rebuild Gems as skills. …
OpenAI said it can no longer rule out that its upcoming model Astra has reached the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold in its Preparedness Framework, based on preliminary internal evaluations…
Meta is developing a desktop AI application for macOS, as indicated by new references in recent Meta AI web builds, including a settings button labeled 'Download Meta AI' and a description of the app …
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.6 Luna to Free and Go ChatGPT users starting the week of August 6, while Plus and Pro subscribers receive an updated GPT-5.6 Sol with a reasoning-effort slider. The update …
Meta has released Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent for complex software engineering tasks across large repositories, available on macOS and Linux. The agent runs on Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-…
MemoryPlugin has launched MemoryPlugin Sync, a macOS app that uploads local coding agent sessions from Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor to its memory archive, and has listed its memory server in the off…
ByteDance's Seed organization has launched SeedRealtime, a native audio-visual full-duplex large language model that simultaneously processes audio, video, and text to enable real-time conversational …
Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Wallets, a programmable wallet system enabling AI agents to pay for APIs and content without human-facing signup, with account holders able to claim a unique Wallet han…
Mistral released Shieldstral, a 3B open-weight multimodal safety classifier under Apache 2.0, designed for customizable content moderation across text, images, and combined text-image content, running…
Google is developing Plugins and a Notifications area for its Gemini Enterprise app, according to clues in an unfinished interface. The Plugins tab, currently empty, is expected to package reusable Sk…
Microsoft is testing a new native real-time voice model, MAI Realtime, which has appeared as a hidden early-access entry in its MAI Playground. The bidirectional, full-duplex system, which listens and…
Google is testing unreleased changes to its Gemini desktop app that add dedicated tabs for image and video generation, a camera attachment option, and custom MCP server support for Spark, aiming to cl…
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small, an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active, designed to deliver performance comparable to its l…
Google has begun rolling out a new voice capability for Gemini on macOS, allowing users to create, edit, and summarize content via voice input in any desktop window. The feature, announced by Michael …
XAI launched Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0, a speech-to-speech model that scored 82.9% on Artificial Analysis' benchmark, up from 75.7% for version 1.0 and ahead of GPT-Realtime-2.1 at 79.1%. The model co…
Vellum has introduced Voice Mode for its personal AI assistant, enabling spoken conversation processed through the same agent loop as text chat, with speech transcribed by Deepgram and synthesized by …