Tech
Claude Opus 5 Launches: Same Price as Opus 4.8, Within 0.5% of Fable 5 on Coding Benchmarks
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 at $5/$25 per million tokens - Opus 4.8's price - while landing within 0.5% of Fable 5 on CursorBench at half the cost.
AI
Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language models - from research labs to real-world products.
AI
Claude Voice Mode Now Runs on Opus and Sonnet - and Can Take Actions in Gmail, Slack, and Notion
Claude voice mode now runs on Opus and Sonnet for the first time, with connectors for Gmail, Slack, and Notion and support for 11 languages.
Apps
OpenAI Launches Health in ChatGPT - Connect Medical Records and Apple Health Across Every Chat
Health in ChatGPT launches today for US users. Connect Apple Health and medical records to give ChatGPT context on your actual lab results and medications.
AI
Claude Cowork Adds Record a Skill - Point It at Your Workflow and Let It Take Over
Claude Record a Skill lets you teach Claude a task by walking through it on screen. Claude builds a repeatable automation from your recording.
Apps
Substack Adds Pangram AI Detection So Readers Can See How Much of a Newsletter Was Written by a Human
Substack integrated Pangram AI detection, letting readers scan newsletters to see how much was written by a human. Writers can opt out or add an AI disclosure.
Security
Google CodeMender Is Now in Preview - an AI Agent That Finds, Proves, and Fixes Code Vulnerabilities
Google CodeMender is now in preview - an AI agent that scans code for vulnerabilities, proves they're exploitable, and generates tested patches automatically.
Apps
Meta Is Testing an AI Children's Story App Called StoryKit - Snap a Toy, Get a Bedtime Story
Meta is testing StoryKit, an AI app that generates personalized bedtime stories for children. Snap a toy, pick a lesson, get a story with music.
Tech
Claude Code Can Now Build and Test iOS Apps Directly in the iOS Simulator
Claude Code now builds and tests iOS apps directly in Apple's Simulator - public beta, no extra permissions needed. Xcode required.
AI
Google Launches Three New Gemini Models and Teases Gemini 4 While Its Flagship Sits in Limbo
Google shipped three Flash-class Gemini models on Tuesday and dropped its first hint about Gemini 4. Gemini 3.5 Pro is still not out.
Apps
Grok for Excel Lands as a Free Microsoft 365 Add-In - Powered by Grok 4.5
xAI launched Grok for Excel on July 20. Free Microsoft 365 add-in powered by Grok 4.5 - writes formulas, runs scenarios, and pulls from SharePoint and email.
AI
Kimi K3 Pricing 2026: Plans, API Costs, and What Each Tier Gets You
Kimi K3 pricing: five tiers from free to $159/month annual, API at $3/$15 per million tokens, and when the 1M-token context unlocks.
Hardware
Google Is Building a Chip With Gemini Baked Directly Into the Hardware
Google is building a chip codenamed "Frozen v2" that bakes Gemini directly into hardware - 6-10x more efficient than its current AI chips, targeting 2028.