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OpenAI clears GPT-5.6 for public rollout, launches ChatGPT Work agent
The GPT-5.6 suite — Sol, Terra, and Luna — powers a new agent that pulls context from Slack, Gmail, and Google Drive.

Nvidia stock falls 15% as memory chips become the new AI bottleneck
GPU spot prices peaked in May near $3.20 an hour and have declined since, while DRAM prices climbed 10x over the past year.

Meta starts production of MTIA AI chips in September to cut Nvidia dependence
The social giant is spending up to $145B this year on AI compute and wants its own silicon to blunt GPU costs.

SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI exits to top 25 years of US venture returns
SpaceX went public at $1.77T; with Anthropic and OpenAI queued behind it, the trio will clear $4T in combined value.

Anthropic's new Claude Reflect dashboard nudges users to stay in the app
Reflect visualizes your AI habits, suggests better workflows, and quietly deepens Claude's grip on daily work — now in beta for Free, Pro, and Max.

Anthropic launches Claude Wrapped, a usage-reflection dashboard
The 'reflect' feature shows Claude usage over 1, 3, 6, or 12 months and nudges users to keep some tasks off the model.

Meta opens Muse Spark 1.1 to developers via new Meta Model API
The upgraded model targets agentic coding and multimodal reasoning, arriving days after the controversial Muse Image launch.

Ollama raises $65M Series B as open-model runner hits 8.9M monthly developers
Theory Venture led the round for the Docker Desktop veterans; Ollama now sits inside 85% of the Fortune 500 with just 14 employees.

Nvidia adds RTX 5080-powered GeForce NOW server in Toronto
The new Toronto node streams up to 4K at 120fps with DLSS and Reflex, extending Nvidia's cloud footprint deeper into Canada.

Meta commits C$13B to Alberta data center, its first in Canada
The build marks Meta's entry into Canadian AI infrastructure, with Alberta's cheap power and cool climate winning out over rival provinces.

Prime Intellect and Adaption bring self-improving AI to non-frontier developers
Tools like AutoResearch and AutoScientist let outside developers train and refine specialized models without a frontier lab budget.

Lawsuit alleges Grok generated 7,000 CSAM images of 11-year-old girl
Amended class action accuses xAI of obstructing police probes into Grok-generated child sex images; Stability AI added as co-defendant.

Lovable in talks to raise $300M at $13.2B, doubling its December valuation
Menlo Ventures is expected to lead the round for the Swedish vibe-coding startup, which hit $500M ARR in June.

Brown econ class average falls from 96 to 48 after professor forces in-person final
Roberto Serrano suspected ChatGPT use on take-home exams. When he moved the final in-person, 27 of 86 students dropped or vanished.

OpenAI updates ChatGPT voice mode to interrupt users less often
GPT-Live-1 replaces the older turn-based voice model with full-duplex audio that can listen while it speaks.

Google's SynthID watermark debunks viral McConnell hospital deepfake
Snopes used Google's invisible watermark to confirm a widely-shared image of the ailing senator was AI-generated — a rare public win for detection tech.

Google Photos adds Video Remix, an AI video editor powered by Gemini Omni
The feature applies cinematic relighting, background swaps, and painterly styles to clips in a few taps, and starts rolling out today across 15 countries.

xAI releases Grok 4.5, priced at less than half of Claude Opus 4.7
Elon Musk calls the new model Opus-class but faster and cheaper, at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output.

Prime Intellect raises $130M at $1B to build enterprise AI agents
Radical Ventures led the Series A as the startup hit a $100M revenue run rate helping companies train their own models instead of renting frontier labs.

OpenAI ships GPT-Live-1, a full-duplex voice model that replaces Advanced Voice Mode
The new model listens and speaks simultaneously, routes to GPT-5.5 for reasoning, and now serves 150M weekly voice users.

Meta adds tamper-proof LED to AI glasses while widening data collection elsewhere
The new safeguard disables the camera if the recording light is modified — but Meta's broader AI product roadmap keeps pulling more user data in.

AI startups are hitting revenue milestones in half the time
Mercor doubled from $1B to $2B in four months. Anthropic added $17B in run rate in under two. The pattern is now the story.

Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra hits closed-model parity at 10x lower cost on LangChain
LangChain tuned its Deep Agents harness for Nemotron 3 Ultra, matching top closed models on business tasks without retraining.

Ex-OpenAI product chief Kevin Weil joins Stoke Space board
The former OpenAI CPO takes a director seat at the $1.34B reusable-rocket startup, fueling speculation about a Sam Altman–SpaceX play.

Former DeepMind policy chief Verity Harding warns AI arms race framing is a trap
Harding argues the US-China race narrative concentrates power in a few labs and pushes smaller nations into vassal-state positions.

China flags Anthropic's Claude Code as a security back-door risk
Beijing's cybersecurity platform tells users to uninstall or upgrade Claude Code versions 2.1.91 through 2.1.196, released April 2 to June 29.

HalluSquatting attack turns 9 AI coding assistants into a botnet vector
Researchers show LLMs hallucinate repository names up to 100% of the time — and attackers can register those names in advance.

SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation five months after Series E
General Atlantic leads the first close as the AI chip maker locks in JPMorgan Chase as an inference-infrastructure customer.

ZML launches free LLMD inference server across Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU and Apple chips
The Paris startup, backed by $20M and Yann LeCun, wants to break silicon lock-in as inference costs climb.

Raycast's Glaze opens vibe coding to Mac users at $20 a month
Raycast's app-making app now available to everyone, with a Pro tier offering 200 credits monthly for building personal desktop software.
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