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CJ Olive Young and ESTsoft launched an AI Shopping Assistant kiosk for foreign shoppers on July 8, 2026, at three Seoul stores, supporting eight languages. The kiosk uses ESTsoft's Perso Interactive avatar platform and A…
Moss launches a semantic search engine with sub-10 ms retrieval latency, eliminating the need for vector databases and enabling real-time AI applications in browser, edge, device, or cloud environments. The tool is used …
Microsoft has begun routing a significant share of Copilot prompts in Excel and Outlook to its own MAI models, reducing reliance on OpenAI and Anthropic to cut inference costs. The move, effective July 7, 2026, shifts ro…
Anthropic launched Claude Cowork, an AI agent that performs multi-step tasks, in beta for Max users on mobile and web. Users describe a goal, and Claude plans, uses tools, and produces documents, spreadsheets, or reports…
Kyrall launched a prompt-driven CAD tool that generates editable parametric 3D models from text, sketches, or images, targeting engineers who need manufacturable designs rather than static meshes. The startup offers a br…
AI or Not, a platform for guessing whether images are AI-generated, has launched new categories including Sports and Landscape, challenging users to distinguish between AI and real photos.
AI chip maker SambaNova Systems raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation in a Series F round led by General Atlantic, five months after its Series E. The company also secured JPMorganChase as an inference-infrastruc…
Tencent released Hy3, a 295B Mixture-of-Experts model with Apache 2.0 weights, achieving a 78.0 SWE-bench Verified score and leading open-weight models on tool and search benchmarks. A free API on OpenRouter is available…
01-ai released Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat, a text-generation model on Hugging Face under the Apache-2.0 license. The 2.8 GB model, based on Yi-Coder-1.5B, has passed security scans and is available for local deployment with 8-16…
Nomagic deployed its first vision-language-action (VLA) model for warehouse robots at Swiss e-commerce platform Brack.Alltron, halving the rate of robot-caused interventions. The AI lab, led by former Google DeepMind res…
Anthropic contributors merged 8× more code per day in Q2 2026 than in 2021-2024, and economic modeling by METR researcher Thomas Kwa suggests this implies a researcher uplift of >2× from coding agents alone, even assumin…
A developer building a realtime note-taking app found that Apple Intelligence's on-device language model failed to process a 27-minute conversation, forcing a hierarchical map-reduce approach to summarize long audio reco…
Newer AI models with cheaper per-token pricing can lead to higher costs and worse output, according to tests comparing Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Sonnet 5 on 150 agent tasks. Sonnet 5 consumed up to 12x more tokens on archite…
OpenAI will unveil GPT-5.6 on Thursday after delaying its launch, following U.S. approval for a broad rollout, as reported by Axios.
Nextdocs.io launches an AI-powered slide and document generation tool that creates presentations, proposals, and social posts from a single prompt. The platform offers brand customization, multi-format export, and a self…
Sanity's native Embeddings feature enables semantic search in Next.js without managing external vector stores. A developer demonstrates wiring up the feature by creating an index in Sanity Studio, then querying it via a …
Meta announced it will disable the camera on its AI glasses if the recording LED is tampered with, and will take legal action against businesses advertising LED tampering services. The company is rolling out a mandatory …
Proton has released Lumo 2.0, a major update to its AI assistant, featuring enhanced capabilities including image generation and analysis. The company has also redesigned Lumo's visual identity, evolving the mascot desig…
The AI inference market is bifurcating into cheap commodity models and premium frontier systems, with GPT-4-class costs dropping from $20 to $0.40 per million tokens since 2022 while newer models like Google's Gemini 3.5…
AI inference costs have plummeted for commodity models, with GPT-4-class output dropping from $20 to $0.40 per million tokens since 2022, while frontier model prices have surged, creating a split market. Companies are no…