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Claire Vo, founder of ChatPRD and host of the How I AI podcast, conducted a head-to-head comparison between OpenAI's GPT-5.6 lineup and Anthropic's Claude models, finding that the theoretically superior Claude Fable lost…
Asian founders are relocating to the U.S. amid a prolonged venture funding slump in Asia, drawn by the U.S.'s massive customer base and abundant capital. Singapore-based AI startup Interfaze moved to San Francisco after …
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 open-weight model outperformed DeepSeek V4 Pro and Kimi K-2.6 in enterprise agentic development trials, but its limited hosting options—only available through small US, Chinese, and Singaporean provide…
OpenAI's Codex app for Mac has been replaced by the ChatGPT app after an update caused the original app to delete itself. Users attempting to download Codex from the official page now receive the ChatGPT app instead, ind…
Meta announced Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal AI model designed for agentic tasks, with improvements in computer use, coding, and multimodal understanding. The model, released by Meta's Superintelligence Labs led by Alexan…
Faith-based AI company Gloo Holdings Inc. faces a critical juncture after reporting $438 million in total losses since its 2013 founding, with a stock sale planned for July 10 to raise over $20 million. The company, whic…
A user discovered a Tamagotchi/Clippy-like mascot in the new unified ChatGPT app, accessible by hovering over the computer use preview window and clicking the second icon on the top left corner.
Anthropic has added a new 'Reflect' feature to its Claude AI assistant that lets users review their usage patterns over time, similar to Spotify Wrapped. The tool provides summaries of key topics, usage patterns, and tas…
A team building an AI tutor for children ages 4-9 developed a custom architecture that streams multiple actions in a single response to achieve sub-second latency, replacing the standard agent loop to prevent children's …
OpenAI released ChatGPT Work, a new productivity agent that integrates ChatGPT, its Codex coding agent, and a web browser into a single desktop app. The tool, powered by GPT-5.6 models, supports task scheduling, plugin i…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, an AI agent powered by Codex and GPT-5.6 that automates end-to-end tasks across apps and files, persisting for hours and running in the background. The agent can produce reports, spreadsheet…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 scored only 7.8% on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, a result that is both scandalously low compared to human performance (over 90%) and scandalously high relative to other AI models, as it is 20 times better th…
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, a new AI model specializing in agentic tasks, outperforming Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on four benchmarks. CEO Mark Zuckerberg promoted the model as a cheaper alternative, off…
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 on July 9, 2026, introducing a three-tier model family (Sol, Terra, Luna) with tiered pricing and Programmatic Tool Calling that runs model-written JavaScript in an isolated V8 runtime. The new mo…
Perplexity released a research preview of a post-trained version of Z.AI's GLM 5.2, a Chinese open-source model, that matches Claude Opus 4.8 performance at one-third the cost by using an advisor tool to escalate only co…
Lyzr is raising approximately $100 million in a Series B funding round at a $500 million valuation, with over $400 million in investor interest, according to Bloomberg. The company's enterprise AI agents, including its A…
OpenAI is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its AI-powered browser launched less than a year ago, with deprecation targeted for August 9th. The company confirmed the sunsetting as part of its ChatGPT Work announcements, stati…
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models alongside ChatGPT Work, directly targeting Anthropic's offerings with competitive pricing, speed, and benchmark performance. The new models beat Anthropic's Claude Fabl…
Washington lifted the 19-day ban on Fable 5, setting a precedent for structured pre-approval of AI models. OpenAI floated a proposal for frontier labs to give the U.S. government a 5% stake, sparking debate over alignmen…
Google added a 'created or edited with AI' disclosure label for ads across Search, YouTube, and Discover, appearing in the My Ad Center panel and directly on ads in some regions. Ads made with Google's own generative AI …