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XAI released Grok 4.5 to general availability on July 8, offering significantly lower cost per coding task due to its token efficiency—using an average of 15,954 output tokens per SWE-Bench Pro task versus 67,020 for Cla…
Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States to lead a new artificial-intelligence-assisted materials discovery institute at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, citing cuts to US science funding a…
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) urged Meta to strengthen protections for users' name, image, likeness, voice and creative work after criticism of the new Muse image generator, stating that no one's likeness should be used …
OpenAI, Trail of Bits, HackerOne, and Calif launched Patch the Planet on June 22, an open-source security initiative using AI-assisted vulnerability research with mandatory human review. The first five-day sprint covered…
Earth Fire Alliance launched its first three operational FireSat satellites, combining multispectral sensing with AI analysis to detect wildfires earlier and build a global dataset. The system, supported by Google Resear…
Google announced updates to Managed Agents in its Gemini API, adding support for background execution, remote MCP server integration, custom function calling, and credential refresh. The changes allow long-running agent …
Anthropic, GitHub, and Google all scheduled price increases for September 1st, with Anthropic raising Sonnet 5 prices after an introductory period and redeploying Fable 5 under tighter safety classifiers that cause more …
A developer built Mitii, an AI coding assistant with a multi-mode architecture that runs entirely locally using Qwen3-Coder (30B) via Ollama. In a manual benchmark of 515 tasks, Mitii achieved a 78% overall success rate,…
A developer's benchmark of frontier AI models on a 3D modeling task found Anthropic's Opus 4.7 outperformed Gemini 3.1, GPT 5.5, and Kimi K2.6 in weighted score, speed, and cost, contradicting public leaderboards. The au…
A Pakistani software founder who built a $100K MRR AI SaaS over three years transferred his domain and full proprietary codebase to James De Berardine, Director of NOTO nightclub in Philadelphia, as part of a $200K acqui…
The UK Cabinet Office is recruiting an AI innovation director with a salary of up to £163,000 to lead AI adoption across government as part of the Future Civil Service reform programme. The role, reporting to Future Civi…
Poetic, an enterprise automation startup formerly known as Forge, raised $50 million in Series A funding at a $500 million valuation, led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from OpenAI. The company's software converts…
A startup has launched Ghost, an AI tool that provides real-time suggestions during job interviews. The tool listens to interview questions and prompts users with responses, raising concerns about fairness and authentici…
The U.S. Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to shut down its most powerful AI model, Claude Fable 5, to all foreign nationals, forcing the company to turn it off for all users worldwide just three days after its relea…
SettleMesh, a company focused on the launch layer for AI apps, argues that stronger coding agents like GPT-5.6 in Codex accelerate demo creation but do not solve the need for production infrastructure. The key bottleneck…
A developer is building a production-grade AI messaging and RAG platform on a modest AMD Ryzen 5500U mini PC with 16GB RAM, running Rocky Linux. The project implements enterprise patterns including Docker resource isolat…
Meta announced it will disable the camera on Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses if the LED recording indicator is tampered with, while simultaneously testing prototype 'super-sensing' glasses that capture photos every few seconds a…
AI startup Ahoy launched its agentic meeting scheduler by renting San Francisco's Pink Painted Lady for a pirate-themed party, offering free public access to the historic landmark. The event, funded by investor TQ Ventur…
AI startup Ahoy launched its agentic meeting scheduler and business aide at a pirate-themed public event inside San Francisco's Pink Painted Lady on July 8, 2026, according to Mission Local. The event featured costumed s…
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a flagship model for coding and agentic workflows, now live in Grok Build, Cursor, and the SpaceXAI API. The model features a 500,000-token context window, function calling, and configurable r…