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There is no single best way to structure data for AI agents, according to a new analysis that identifies five production-ready approaches: semantic models, knowledge graphs, RAG, plain markdown files, and open knowledge …
A new benchmark, Long-Horizon Terminal-Bench, evaluates AI agents on 46 terminal tasks across nine categories, including software engineering and scientific computing, using a 90-minute budget and hidden replay-based ver…
A new phenomenon called 'tokenflation' shows AI coding agents using excessive tool calls and reasoning for trivial inputs like 'Hi', costing developers time and money. Benchmarking 14 models revealed that a simple greeti…
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a general-purpose AI model trained alongside Cursor for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work, priced at $2 per million input tokens. The model claims superior token efficiency and ranks f…
Skillburst launches a platform that lets non-engineers use AI workflows built by their technical teams inside tools like Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT without writing code. The startup addresses the problem of workflows be…
Meta launched Muse Image, its first image-generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, inside Meta AI across its consumer apps, including Instagram Stories in the US and WhatsApp in select countries. The model enab…
Westpac Banking Corp. is intensifying efforts to monitor artificial intelligence costs, tracking AI tokens across the firm and routing simpler tasks to cheaper models, according to chief AI officer Dan Jermyn. The Austra…
Amotions launched an AI Zoom app that provides real-time guidance during sales calls, helping users ask better questions, handle objections, and stay aligned with their sales playbook. The app is visible only to the user…
Anthropic published two official patterns to run its most powerful model, Claude Fable 5, at half the price by using cheaper models for routine work and reserving Fable for judgment calls. The advisor pattern scored 92% …
Google Ads expanded its Search campaigns for Travel beta to Things to Do and Events on July 8, 2026, allowing advertisers selling attractions, tours, and event tickets to access the campaign type through an open beta. Th…
Elon Musk announced on July 8 that xAI's chatbot Grok will integrate the Imagine tool for autonomous image and video generation, enabling the AI to create visual content in agentic mode without explicit user commands. Th…
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…
A developer created a tool to verify Canadian contractor licenses across provincial registries, offering a free lookup site and an API for bulk data access. The tool scrapes Quebec's RBQ and Ontario's HCRA registries, pr…
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…
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…
A developer tested Fable 5 and Opus 4.8 by having each build a Minecraft-style voxel game from scratch, finding that both produced working code but Fable 5 required significantly less user guidance and performed more aut…
Swedish AI startup Lovable is in talks to raise $300 million at a valuation between $13 billion and $13.2 billion, more than doubling its December valuation. The company, which lets users build apps by typing plain Engli…
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.
CISA added an authorization-bypass vulnerability in Langflow, a visual framework for building AI-agent workflows, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on July 7, 2026, giving federal agencies until July 10, 202…