Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language models - from research labs to real-world products.
Fable 5's free run on Pro, Max, and Team plans ends at midnight tonight. From July 8, it bills at $10/$50 per million tokens - Anthropic's most expensive model.
iOS 27 is in public beta with 12 confirmed changes - a Siri chat app, a Camera vision mode, Apple Intelligence for Shortcuts, and better battery life.
Vercel launched Eve and Sandbox at ShipNYC: models should be swappable, agents shouldn't lock to one lab. Gemini and DeepSeek are winning production share.
TwelveLabs raised $100M Series B with Amazon signing on as preferred cloud partner - new models will optimize for AWS Trainium and launch there first.
UN AI governance talks opened July 6 in Geneva. 193 countries. Big Tech CEOs. A scientist warning of catastrophic harm. No binding rules from this week.
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk to new customers July 30. No new features planned. Existing users keep access to the 21-year-old crowdsourcing platform.
Google's July 4 ad imagines the Founding Fathers drafting the Declaration in Workspace with Gemini's help. YouTube cheered. Bluesky called it tone deaf.
Google Maps is building a Gemini food ordering mode inside Ask Maps. An APK teardown found UI strings describing the feature. No launch date confirmed.
Alibaba classified Claude Code as high-risk software and will ban it from July 10, after researchers found code that could identify Chinese users of the tool.
LongCat-2.0 is a 1.6T open-source coding model from Meituan, trained on 50,000 domestic Chinese ASICs. MIT license, 1M context, SWE-bench Pro 59.5.
GLM-5.2 is the best open-weight AI model on earth right now. MIT license, 1M-token context, and coding benchmarks that beat GPT-5.5 at one-sixth the cost.
Together AI raised $800 million in a Series C at an $8.3 billion valuation. Customers including Cursor and Cognition report 6x to 60x cost savings over closed models.
