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Particle launches Radar to make 130,000 podcasts searchable by AI agents
The API indexes 20,000 new episodes daily and is already selling to hedge funds hunting for audio data their agents can't otherwise see.
ChatGPT gains an Apple Messages plug-in that can draft and send texts
OpenAI's new integration lets ChatGPT sort, edit, and send iMessages on a user's behalf — with a local runtime and a warning about auto-approval.
Google Discover adds an AI chatbot for tuning your feed
A new chatbot interface inside the Google app lets users describe what they want in Discover and remembers those preferences.
Meta rolls out Pocket, its vibe-coded games app, to US users
The app builds on Meta's acqui-hire of Gizmo and shuts down the original — part of a stand-alone-app spree Zuckerberg tied to AI-assisted coding.
Meta ships a Mac app for its AI assistant with screen sharing and dictation
The desktop app lets Meta AI see your window, transcribe across apps, and connect to Instagram, Facebook, and Google Workspace.
Calendly launches AI note-taker and Callie assistant to chase post-meeting workflows
The scheduling company enters a crowded field alongside Granola, Fireflies, Otter, Read AI, and Fathom with a pitch focused on what happens after the call.
Karpathy's LLM wiki idea spawns a cottage industry of personal knowledge bases
A single April tweet from Andrej Karpathy sent thousands of researchers building Markdown wikis maintained by Claude and GPT-5.5.
Firefox's Smart Window adds live web search and cited AI answers
Mozilla is betting an opt-in, model-agnostic AI browser can beat Google's Chrome integration on privacy and user choice.
Warp launches Factories, a turnkey AI software factory for smaller shops
The system packages agent orchestration, evals, and CI-style tooling into a single layer aimed at teams that can't build Stripe's setup from scratch.
Google's Pet Memory can't tell three cats apart after two weeks of testing
Gemini for Home's new $20-a-month feature promises per-pet recognition on Nest cameras, but labels every cat as the first one you name.
Suno adds MIDI and a chatbot producer to Studio 2.0
The AI music startup ships MIDI, automation, a built-in synth, and custom AI effects plugins — pushing Studio closer to a real DAW.
Nvidia ships GeForce NOW native Linux app, opens 2,000-game library to Chromebooks
The Linux client exits beta on Ubuntu 24.04, DLSS Frame Generation gets a latency cut, and Chromebook Fast Pass throws in a free year.
Model ML wires GPT-5.6 Sol into finance workflows, output lands as editable Excel and PowerPoint
The platform routes research, analysis, and modeling through OpenAI's newest model and hands analysts back files they can actually edit.
Ford rolls out AI assistant to 8 million vehicle owners via mobile app
The chatbot answers questions about fuel levels, towing capacity and service needs. A voice version lands inside vehicles in 2027.
Anthropic flips Claude Code into auto mode by default
Starting August 14, Pro, Max, and Team accounts get an agent that stops asking permission at every step.
Meetily ships a free, local meeting transcriber that skips the cloud
The open-source app records and summarizes Zoom, Meet, and Teams calls on-device, undercutting the $10–$20/month meeting-assistant tier.
Google is force-shipping a Gemini toolbar into Docs. Here's how to turn it off.
The opt-out lives inside a Gmail setting that also kills spellcheck, smart compose, and autocorrect. A Chrome extension does it cleaner.
Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a cloud browser built for AI agents
The serverless browser skips the visual chrome and targets CPU and memory efficiency for headless agent workloads.
Cloudflare open-sources Cloudflare OS, its internal vibe-coding platform
The sandboxed AI agent workspace runs each app instance in a V8 isolate, uses a few megabytes of memory, and ships free on GitHub.
Google Maps turns Ask Maps into an agent that orders food and books hotels
Ask Maps now handles restaurant orders through Square, Toast, and Uber Eats, and pulls from Gmail and Calendar to personalize trip planning.
Meta releases Muse Code, a terminal agent for large repositories
The beta agent fans out to parallel sub-agents in isolated worktrees, aiming at OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code on price.
Reddit rolls out AI moderator Rules Hub, plans to phase out Automod
The LLM-based system moves beyond keyword matching and will hit all new communities before a full 2026 launch.
Hark previews Handoff, a browser-use agent for real-world tasks
The $700M-funded startup claims its post-trained model beats GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.8 on cost and speed for browser automation.
MacPaw partners with Liquid AI to bring on-device inference to SetApp developers
The Ukraine-based developer will offer Liquid AI's Elix runtime to the 150,000 paying users on its SetApp store, with cloud model access to follow.
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