Meta shipped its second model from Meta Superintelligence Labs on July 9, just two days after launching Muse Image, its first standalone image generator. Muse Spark 1.1 is a different animal entirely: a multimodal reasoning model built to plan, delegate,…
OpenAI made GPT-5.6 generally available on July 9 after a limited preview that began on June 26 for a small group of trusted partners. The company said the rollout will happen in phases over about 24 hours. OpenAI also said…
Meta shipped its first image-generation model built entirely in-house on July 7, and the technical story got buried within a day. Muse Image, developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs under Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, lets anyone inside the Meta AI…
Nubia, ZTE’s AI-focused smartphone sub-brand, says it will unveil what it’s calling the world’s first AI agent smartphone at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, running July 17 to 20. Ni Fei, ZTE’s senior vice president and head of…
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, its first model since xAI formally dissolved into SpaceX earlier this year and the company’s first release built jointly with Cursor, the coding assistant startup SpaceX agreed to acquire for $60 billion in a…
Anthropic was hours away from cutting off free access to Claude Fable 5 when it reversed course. The company had planned to move the model back to paid, usage-credit-only billing on July 7 or 8, but after visible pushback from…
China’s industry ministry issued a formal cybersecurity warning against a US AI company’s flagship coding tool on Wednesday. The move marks the latest escalation in a dispute between Anthropic and Chinese tech firms. The warning was published through the Ministry…
Samsung Electronics forecast one of the best quarters in its history on Tuesday, and its stock fell anyway. That contradiction is the entire story of Asia’s trading session: a market that has stopped rewarding good AI-driven earnings the moment investors…
Cardiovascular disease killed an estimated 19.8 million people worldwide in 2022, according to the World Health Organization, and sudden cardiac death is the cruelest slice of that number precisely because it often gives no warning at all. It can take…
Microsoft just cut 4,800 jobs on the same day investors are watching to see whether its record AI spending will ever show up as a return. The company announced the reduction, about 2.1% of its roughly 220,000-person global workforce, on…