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Asteroids launches a managed agent platform that lets users deploy long-horizon AI agents across any harness, model, and channel with one click. The service offers durable state, omnichannel reach, and zero data retentio…
Blackthorn Vision, a Microsoft-partnered .NET and AI development company, replaced a custom prompt orchestration layer with Semantic Kernel in a production healthcare SaaS product. After six months, the team found that S…
Google Research, Google DeepMind, and university collaborators introduced SensorFM, a wearable health foundation model pretrained on over one trillion minutes of unlabeled sensor data from 5 million participants. The mod…
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's chief of applications and de facto number two executive, is stepping down after a three-month medical leave for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome did not lead to a full recovery. She will rem…
Stilta, a Stockholm-based legal AI startup founded by former McKinsey and QuantumBlack engineers, raised $10.5 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to deploy AI agents for patent litigation, focusing on evi…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, an AI agent within ChatGPT that can autonomously complete complex tasks across apps and files, powered by the new GPT-5.6 model and Codex technology. The agent aims to transform ChatGPT from…
An anonymous developer recounts the four-year history of the AUTOMATIC1111 Stable Diffusion WebUI, from its creation in August 2022 to its decline by 2026. The project, which began as a single Gradio script, became the m…
A new app called Ode, backed by Stephen Fry, uses artificial intelligence to prescribe poems tailored to users' moods, aiming to support mental wellbeing. The free app, launched by the founder of The Poetry Pharmacy, fea…
Google Research introduced SensorFM on July 9, 2026, a foundation model pre-trained on over one trillion minutes of de-identified wearable sensor data from five million participants. The model, which learns from Fitbit a…
Lovable, a Swedish startup enabling non-coders to build web apps via natural language, is in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion valuation, doubling its valuation from seven months ago. The company hit $500 mi…
Meta has entered the AI API market with Muse Spark 1.1, priced at $4.25 per million output tokens, significantly undercutting competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic. The aggressive pricing intensifies the AI API price war…
OpenAI received regulatory approval from the Trump administration to publicly release its GPT-5.6 model, along with a new tool called ChatGPT Work that aims to let non-coders use Codex capabilities without writing code. …
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora warns that high token costs are a major barrier to AI adoption, potentially limiting businesses to pilot projects. He argues that reducing token pricing is critical for scaling AI, tho…
The U.S. imposed export controls on Anthropic AI models, disrupting businesses that rely on them. Leaders must monitor regulations, diversify AI capabilities, and align AI investments with broader strategy to maintain re…
Software developer Tarun Gupta launched Autopilot-Jobhunt, a free AI tool that searches for job postings and generates tailored resumes and cover letters but does not submit applications. The tool uses open-source AI mod…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, an agent-based product powered by GPT-5.6 that automates complex tasks across platforms like Google Drive, Slack, and Salesforce. The tool aims to redefine business automation but faces skep…
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, a new AI model for coding and AI agents, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg promising aggressive pricing to challenge high-cost rivals like Google and OpenAI. The move could spark a price war in the A…
Anthropic has announced that users of its top-tier AI model, Claude, will face usage-based fees, ending the era of unlimited access under a flat subscription model. The shift reflects the rising operational costs of soph…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol nearly matches Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 in performance but costs a third as much, pricing tasks at $1.04 each. The model's competitive pricing and strong agentic coding performance could disrupt th…
OpenAI released ChatGPT 5.6 under strict government oversight after the Trump administration requested a delay for cybersecurity evaluations. The model is initially available only to government-sanctioned users, raising …