Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Cursor shipped its third-generation in-house coding agent at about a tenth of the per-token price of Opus 4.7 — and benchmarks put it shoulder-to-shoulder with Anthropic's flagship.
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At I/O 2026 Google unveiled Intelligent Eyewear — Gemini-powered audio and display glasses built on Android XR, co-designed with Samsung, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, with the audio frames shipping first this fall.
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Pics, unveiled at Google I/O 2026, lets Workspace users generate and edit marketing graphics, mockups and social posts from text prompts — with every element re-editable like a comment in Google Docs.
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At I/O 2026, Google replaced its iconic blue-link search with a Gemini-powered intelligent box, generative UI, and background 'information agents' that monitor the web for you.
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Pichai opened I/O with Gemini 3.5 Flash shipping immediately, Gemini Omni for video, a 24/7 Spark agent in beta next week, Android XR audio glasses for fall, and a $5B Blackstone TPU venture.
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Spark runs in the cloud while you sleep, plans events, drives spreadsheets, and chases follow-ups — a clear shot across the bow of ChatGPT Pulse and Claude Cowork.
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Anthropic's new Cowork plugin for marketers ships /campaign-plan, /brand-review, /seo-audit, and email-sequence commands with connectors to Canva, HubSpot, Amplitude, and more.
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12 role-specific plugins, a cross-app Microsoft 365 agent, and live deployments at Freshfields and Quinn Emanuel — Anthropic is making legal its biggest Cowork beachhead.
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Read more →Built by ex-Tesla and Netflix engineers, Osaurus routes between local Llama, DeepSeek V4, and Gemma 4 and cloud GPT-5.5, Claude, and Gemini in one sandboxed macOS app — with 112K downloads so far.
TechCrunch
Read more →Grok Build pairs a new Grok 4.3 model with a 2 million token context window and the ability to spawn up to 8 parallel subagents — the most aggressive answer yet to Anthropic's lead in agentic coding tools.
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OpenAI is letting developers monitor and steer Codex coding sessions from iPhone, iPad, and Android, turning the phone into a remote control for an agent that runs back on a desktop or hosted runtime.
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ChatGPT Pro users in the U.S. can now wire up Plaid and 12,000+ institutions, surfacing portfolios, spending, and long-range planning inside the chat.
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Claude for Small Business ships 15 ready-to-run agentic workflows for payroll, invoice chasing, and lead triage, plus a 10-city free training tour kicking off in Chicago.
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Higgsfield's new agent orchestrates Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5 Pro, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and video models like Kling 3.0 through a Hermes brain with three layers of memory and 40+ built-in tools.
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Amazon is sunsetting its standalone Rufus chatbot and rolling its product expertise into Alexa for Shopping, a personalized agent that tracks prices, schedules reorders, and even buys items off Amazon through Shop Direct.
Amazon
Read more →Sam Altman pitches enterprises switching from Claude with 60 days of complimentary Codex access. Hours later, Anthropic boosts Claude Code weekly limits by 50% through July 13 — for free.
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Read more →Self-serve campaigns now start at a $50,000 minimum (down from $250,000), with conversion measurement and CPC bidding aimed at making ChatGPT a real Google Ads competitor.
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Google introduced Gemini Intelligence, a sweep of agentic Android features — cross-app task automation, a Chrome auto-browse tool, a Rambler voice-to-text rewriter and natural-language Create My Widget — debuting on the Samsung Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 this summer ahead of Apple's AI reboot.
AWS is the first cloud provider to host the full Claude Platform — APIs, console, Managed Agents, Skills and all — natively inside a customer's AWS account, with consolidated billing, IAM access controls and same-day availability for new Anthropic releases across 17 regions.
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Palo Alto-based Akool rebuilt its full stack for a 10-20x speedup, pushing generative video clips to 1-3 seconds and live streaming below 30ms per frame.
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A new grok-imagine-image-quality endpoint targets product visualization, brand-safe ad creative and consistent character workflows, with image outputs designed to feed directly into Grok video generation.
xAI
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A bespoke build of GPT-5.5 with relaxed restrictions on offensive-security tasks is rolling out in limited preview to thousands of verified cybersecurity professionals, OpenAI's answer to Anthropic's Mythos cyber preview from a month earlier.
Help Net Security
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A privacy researcher revealed that Chrome has been quietly downloading a 4GB Gemini Nano model to billions of devices without explicit consent, reigniting debate over default-on AI features at browser scale.
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Google shut down Project Mariner on May 4 without a public announcement, ending its 17-month run as a standalone browser-controlling AI and folding the technology into the Gemini API and the new Gemini Agent.
Android Authority
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