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A Redfin analysis estimates that current and former employees of OpenAI and Anthropic could collectively buy nearly one-third of all homes in San Francisco with their IPO earnings, reflecting the massive wealth generated…
Meta launched Muse Image AI, an image generator that uses faces from public Instagram profiles without notifying users, raising privacy concerns. Privacy advocates criticize the default opt-in approach, urging users to c…
GPT-Live, a new real-time conversational AI, impresses with fluid dialogue but experts warn its convincing mimicry lacks genuine understanding, raising ethical and practical risks as AI takes on advisory and decision-mak…
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's top executive for applications, is transitioning to a part-time advisory role due to a chronic illness, highlighting the personal challenges behind tech leadership. Her decision underscores the inter…
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's head of product and business, is stepping down due to health issues related to Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. Her departure raises questions about OpenAI's strategic direction as the comp…
AI and innovative leadership are reshaping accessibility by embracing human variability, moving beyond compliance to personalized, inclusive technologies. Organizations that prioritize this shift can expand market reach …
A new AI method using prefix control tokens with BART fine-tuning boosts ad headline click-through rates by 5.82% and Rouge-L scores by 25.82%, giving advertisers customizable control over headline generation.
OpenAI is shutting down its ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after launch, with deprecation targeted for August 9. The company is consolidating Atlas's features into a new desktop app called ChatGPT Work, which inc…
French fitness startup WeWard, backed by Venus Williams, launched a "Walking Mode" feature that locks social media apps until users hit a customizable step goal. The feature was vibecoded by the company's head of growth …
GitHub has added OpenAI's GPT-5.6 models—Sol, Terra, and Luna—to GitHub Copilot across multiple platforms including VS Code, Visual Studio, and JetBrains. Business and Enterprise administrators must enable the GPT-5.6 po…
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 on July 9 with three tiers—Sol, Terra, and Luna—each with distinct pricing and capability profiles, requiring developers to route tasks appropriately. Sol costs $5/$30 per million tokens and targe…
Workato announced Headless API and Agent Guardrails for its Agent Studio platform, enabling AI agents called Genies to be embedded into any business application while enforcing data privacy and security policies.
Musing Image launched Muse Image, an agentic image model that reasons through prompts, edits photos, composes references, and refines outputs iteratively. The tool is designed for complex tasks like restoration, object r…
Simular CEO Ang Li said Korea's hardware manufacturing strength could give it an edge in the AI agent era, where autonomous computers that act on behalf of users are replacing chatbots. The startup, backed by Samsung NEX…
NVIDIA invested $100 million in a French research team that laid the groundwork for voice AI, seven months after the team's launch, to help them compete in the AI voice assistant market.
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, a new agentic and coding model, on July 9, 2026, as announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The model is available at a low price through the Meta Model API and in Meta AI, marking a significant s…
Researchers introduced DeepAbduction, a new dataset, and the Inverse-Forward Abductive Reasoning (IFAR) framework to improve abductive reasoning in large language models. The IFAR framework achieved a 40% improvement in …
VEGAS (Video caption Evaluation via GAze Score) introduces a training-free method to align video captions with viewer gaze data, improving caption-to-video retrieval and personalization. The approach uses real-time gaze …
OpenAI launched GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice model that enables real-time, interruptible conversations, moving AI interaction from transactional prompts to natural dialogue. Meta introduced Muse Image and previewed Muse…
Researchers introduced the PS4 framework, a proxy-supervised training method for target speaker extraction in conversational AI, using a bilingual dataset of 71,771 samples. The framework achieved second place on the REA…