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Brands are making a strategic mistake by treating generative engine optimization (GEO) like traditional SEO, focusing only on visibility rather than the customer intent insights revealed through AI interactions. GEO prov…
Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1, its latest AI model, and will begin charging for API access at roughly 25% of the cost of competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic, marking a strategic shift from its previous open-source appro…
Google is introducing a new feature in its My Ad Center panel that will disclose when ads are created or edited with AI. The disclosure will be automatic for ads made with Google's own AI tools, but advertisers using thi…
Truckstop.com launched AVA, the freight industry's first voice-native AI carrier assistant, enabling truck drivers to search loads, check rates, and initiate broker negotiations hands-free while driving. The assistant in…
Smartphones are evolving into 'agent phones' that automate multi-step tasks, with Counterpoint Research forecasting that over 80% of premium smartphones will have agentic AI capabilities by 2027. Chipset vendors MediaTek…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol scored 59 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, one point behind Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, while costing $1.04 per task—a third of Fable 5's price. Sol also outperformed all competi…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on July 9, 2026, alongside the GPT-5.6 model family, enabling multi-step task execution across applications for Pro and Enterprise users. The GPT-5.6 family includes three variants—Sol, Terra…
A Redfin analysis estimates that employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, with post-tax IPO equity totaling $198 billion, could theoretically purchase 29% of homes in the San Francisco metro area. OpenAI employees hold about $…
Mark Zuckerberg confirmed Meta is exploring an AI cloud business to rent out spare computing power, aiming to monetize its over $100 billion AI infrastructure investment. The move would pit Meta against AWS, Azure, and G…
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raised $100 million in a seed round reopened to new investors, including Nvidia. The company plans to use the funds to open a Bay Area office and compete for talent, strengthening its…
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora called for a 90% drop in AI token prices within three to five years, arguing that current pricing is unsustainable for enterprise adoption. Arora cited rising inference costs and ineff…
Cortex co-founder Ganesh Datta introduced DRIVE, a framework for measuring engineering organizational health in the age of AI, covering Delivery, Reliability, Initiatives, Vigilance, and Efficiency. The framework include…
Google's AI Overviews, used by over two billion monthly users, are accurate about 90% of the time, according to a New York Times analysis by startup Oumi. The 10% error rate translates to tens of millions of erroneous an…
Anthropic will charge usage-based fees for its Claude Fable 5 AI model starting July 12, requiring subscribers to pay $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens on top of existing monthly plans. This …
GLM 5.2, an open weights AI model, prepared a nearly perfect quarterly VAT return for a UK small business, processing 59 transactions in 68 minutes at a token cost of $2.73, with the net position off by only 7 pence. The…
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 in a U.S. public preview on the Meta Model API, offering new developers $20 in credits and pricing at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens. The model targets age…
A developer building an AI routing platform chose Neon as their database partner, citing its branching feature, serverless driver for edge functions, auto-scaling storage, and connection pooling as ideal for AI workloads…
Neurotech startup Aleph published a silent-speech prototype that uses submental ultrasound to image tongue motion and convert it into text, achieving a 15.6% word error rate on an open-vocabulary test. The system, traine…
Tower Semiconductor and Marvell Technology have shipped over five million photonic integrated circuits for AI data center interconnects, marking a shift from copper to light-based data transmission. The company has secur…
Open-source AI lab Nous Research has integrated OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model family into its Hermes Agent framework via the Nous Portal, giving subscribers access to three variants: Sol, Terra, and Luna. The integration allows…