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Wispr Flow launches AI Notetaker, extends recording to 6 hours
The dictation startup joins Granola and Otter in the meeting-transcription race, with a 60x jump in session length and a Mac-first rollout.
ESPN debuts AI tells detection at 2026 WSOP, poker pros unimpressed
The tool tracks blinks, posture, and chip handling to guess hand strength — but a small camera sample limits what it can learn.
Granola CEO refuses to give bosses access to employee meeting transcripts
The $1.5B AI notetaker keeps notes private by default and turns down CEO requests for company-wide access to what workers say in meetings.
Friend AI wearable returns at $249 with a built-in voice
Avi Schiffmann's talking necklace now costs 2.5x its original price, betting a speaker and a persona can succeed where Humane's AI pin failed.
Nvidia pitches Jetson Orin Nano Super as pocket-sized robot brain at 67 TOPS
Nvidia is targeting first-time robotics developers with a handbag-sized dev kit that runs generative AI locally, no cloud required.
Sandbar's Stream smart ring bets an AI gadget is just a microphone on your finger
The Stream ships later this year with dictation, whisper mode, and cross-device transcription — no screen, no assistant of its own, just voice input.
Perplexity brings Personal Computer agent to Windows for $200/month users
The agentic tool works across local files, Microsoft 365, and the web, targeting enterprise workflows that live on Windows desktops.
Bluesky expands Attie AI assistant with open-web research feature
Quests lets users query trending topics and influential accounts across the AT Protocol as Bluesky's growth flattens near 45.6M accounts.
OpenAI brings ChatGPT Voice to the desktop app with agent control
The macOS and Windows update lets users direct ChatGPT Work and Codex agents by voice, powered by the new GPT-Live model family.
Amazon expands Alexa Plus with MCP support and new smart-home partners
The upgraded assistant now routes requests across appliances from Bosch, Whirlpool, iRobot and Yale, with Canva, Lyft and Priceline joining via MCP.
Runway launches Media Router to pick best generative AI model per task
The startup is pivoting from frontier video model maker to orchestration layer as Google, ByteDance, and Alibaba crowd the leaderboards.
Lingverse raises $29M for iKairos, an AI wearable pitched as Jibo's successor
The pendant-or-desk device will sell for $199 to $249 and turns daily moments into AI-generated journal images.
Neill Blomkamp launches Barley Studios with Seedance-generated short Nightborne
The District 9 director's 13-minute AI film uses ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 for every shot, with 32 actors licensing their likenesses.
Meta tests StoryKit, an AI app that writes kids' bedtime stories
The pilot generates personalized children's stories from a photo and a prompt, with safety filters and an 18+ account requirement.
Substack adds Pangram AI detector to flag 'Claudefishing' in posts
The tool scans posts, notes, and comments longer than 100 words and rolls out on web and iOS, with Android coming soon.
Jack Dorsey's Block launches Buzz to challenge Slack and GitHub
Buzz is an open-source, self-hostable workspace that puts employees and AI agents on the same Nostr-signed identity system.
Model Context Protocol drops stateful sessions in next week's update
The plumbing behind AI agent integrations shifts to a stateless design, addressing a scaling headache that has slowed first-party MCP rollouts.
Adobe wires Google's Nano Banana into Project Indigo camera app
The version 1.1 update adds generative filters, object removal, and AI photo critique — running on Google's model, not Adobe's Firefly.
Nvidia opens creative apps to AI agents at SIGGRAPH with MCP push
Adobe, Blender, Unreal and Affinity connect AI agents into production pipelines as Nvidia ships a Synthetic Video Detector hitting 92% accuracy.
Augment Code bets on semantic retrieval to beat Claude Code on efficiency
Augment says its context engine runs Terminal-Bench 33% more efficiently than Claude Code using the same underlying model.
Google switches Gemini quotas to compute-based limits across all tiers
Free, AI Plus, AI Pro, and AI Ultra now meter by prompt complexity, not request count — and Google won't publish the free tier's baseline.
Vertu's $6,880 Alphafold pitches an AI agent for executives, delivers mixed results
Hermes Agent acts more autonomously than Gemini but misses reminder times, books wrong trip dates, and forgets uploaded files days later.
AI Box ships MCP server, pipes 80+ models into Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini
The Model Context Protocol server routes 60 flagship endpoints across image, video, audio, and text through the assistant users already run.
Roblox launches Build, an AI text-to-game tool inside its mobile app
The company opens public alpha in New Zealand on July 28, with a retention-based ranking system meant to keep AI slop off the homepage.
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