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XAI's Grok 4.5, OpenAI's GPT-5.5, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 were benchmarked on one-shot app generation across three interactive tasks. Claude models won the Rubik's Cube round, GPT-5.5 won the gravity …
OpenAI introduced GPT-Live, a new voice mode in the ChatGPT iPhone app that delegates complex tasks to GPT-5.5 while maintaining conversation flow. The model replaces an older GPT-4o era voice mode and includes improveme…
OpenAI released GPT-Live, a new voice model that enables real-time, full-duplex conversations with ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to listen, speak, and search the web simultaneously. The company claims the model produces …
Dating apps like Known are using AI to match singles, but users like Marie Lansley remain skeptical about AI's ability to capture human connection. The technology aims to improve efficiency in a declining market, but con…
Chinese AI models now account for 30-46% of enterprise API token usage on US developer platforms, driven by costs 60-90% lower than US frontier models, with DeepSeek V4 Flash alone commanding 16.3% of OpenRouter token vo…
San Francisco median home prices hit a record $1.76 million in May 2026, driven by concentrated wealth from AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Over 600 OpenAI employees cashed out $6.6 billion in a tender offer, and…
OpenAI previewed its GPT-5.6 model family on June 26, 2026, with the flagship Sol variant targeting 750 tokens per second via a partnership with Cerebras Systems. Cerebras' wafer-scale compute could outperform convention…
In a head-to-head test of AI video generation, Gemini Omni Flash scored 17.6 to AnimateDiff Turbo's 3.6, demonstrating superior scene construction and prompt obedience across two tasks involving a bakery sign and an umbr…
Vibe Arcade built every game in its collection using 'vibe coding,' a term coined by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy that describes generating software by describing desired features in plain language to an AI model. T…
Modal CTO Akshat Bubna argues that AI infrastructure must evolve from developer experience to agent experience, as agents require tighter feedback loops, sandboxes, and programmatic infra. Modal, which raised a $355M Ser…
A writer shares two simple AI prompts that use calendar, messages, and notes to create a daily briefing and end-of-day journal, enabling a continuous context loop without complex systems.
Meta is developing prototype smart glasses that continuously record audio and capture photos every few seconds, enabling users to query past events via Meta AI. The device, reported by the Financial Times, raises privacy…
XAI released Grok 4.5 and OpenAI released GPT-5.6 on the same day, both emphasizing cost efficiency over raw capability. Grok 4.5 is a coding-focused model trained on Cursor data, while GPT-5.6 is a three-tier family cle…
Meta released Muse Image, an AI tool that allows users to manipulate photos of any public Instagram account without explicit consent, raising major privacy concerns. The feature, which requires users to opt out rather th…
Alphabet's Waymo announced plans to expand its driverless robotaxi service to Denver, San Diego, Las Vegas, and Tampa this year, initially serving only Alphabet employees before opening to the public. The expansion follo…
Meta is testing prototype 'super sensing' smart glasses that could continuously record audio and capture photos every few seconds, with metadata extracted and uploaded for AI queries rather than storing raw footage, acco…
Meta is developing prototype 'super sensing' smart glasses that could continuously record audio and snap photos every few seconds, with the data used by Meta AI rather than stored for users. The glasses would keep the LE…
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI rebranded its Grok model, now version 4.5, claiming it has moved past generating offensive content like deepfake porn and 'MechaHitler' to become a legal advisor and Excel tool. The model scored firs…
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8, pricing it at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output, less than half the cost of comparable models from Anthropic and OpenAI. Elon Musk claimed the model is "roughly c…
Artificial Analysis launched AutomationBench-AA on July 7, 2026, an independent leaderboard for Zapier's AutomationBench that grades AI agents on final-state outcomes of simulated SaaS workflows. The benchmark tests agen…