#AI Tools

Grok panel open inside Microsoft Excel showing a financial forecast spreadsheetAI

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.

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Kimi K3 pricing tiers illustrated with a split-panel magazine editorial imageAI

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. Verified July 2026.

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@Kimi_Moonshot X post announcing Kimi K3 subscription pause due to GPU capacity limits on July 19 2026AI

Kimi K3 Pauses New Subscriptions After 48 Hours of Demand Maxed GPU Capacity

Kimi K3 hit capacity limits after 48 hours. New subscriptions paused; existing users unaffected. Moonshot splits into Kimi Membership and Kimi Code Membership.

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Qwen logo representing the Qwen3.8 model launch by Alibaba in July 2026AI

Qwen3.8 Goes Live With 2.4T Parameters - Alibaba Claims Second to Fable 5, Open Weights Coming

Alibaba's Qwen3.8 preview lands with 2.4T parameters and multimodal support. Alibaba claims second to Fable 5. Open weights are promised but have no date.

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Side-by-side comparison of Kimi K3 and Claude Fable 5 on benchmarks, pricing, and context windowAI

Kimi K3 vs Claude Fable 5: Cheaper and Faster on Agents, Behind on Professional Work

K3 wins SWE Marathon, BrowseComp, and Terminal Bench at 70% lower cost. Fable 5 leads intelligence and professional work. Pick based on your task.

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Nvidia Nemotron 3 Embed Rag Model 2026AI

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Hits #1 on RTEB - Three Open Models for Production RAG and Agentic Retrieval

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Embed ranks #1 on RTEB. Three open commercial models - 8B hits 78.46 NDCG@10, 1B hits 72.38 - with 32K context and code retrieval training.

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Google Meet logo with the Take notes for me AI feature setting panel visibleAI

Google Meet Adds 3-Person Threshold to 'Take Notes for Me' - Admins Must Act Before September 21

Google Meet's "Take notes for me" now has a 3-person threshold. Business Standard admins have it ON by default. End-user changes arrive September 21.

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Kimi K3 launch hero visual showing the model name against a dark gradient backgroundAI

Kimi K3 Is the World's First Open 3T Model - Beats GPT-5.6 Sol on Coding at $3 Per Million Tokens

Kimi K3 is live today - Moonshot's 2.8T open model beats GPT-5.6 Sol on GPU kernel work, offers a $3/MTok API, and drops full weights July 27.

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Gemini app open on a Mac with the model picker visible showing Gemini 3.1 Pro as the current frontier optionAI

Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro Is Months Late - Coding Benchmarks Fell Short

Gemini 3.5 Pro is months behind schedule after Google's coding benchmark push fell short, leaving only 3.1 Pro available as OpenAI and Meta advance.

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Grok Automations interface showing a scheduled morning brief with run history and email trigger optionsAI

xAI Adds Automations to Grok - Schedule Jobs or Trigger Them From Your Inbox

xAI launched Grok Automations on July 16, letting users describe a repeating task once and run it on a schedule or trigger it from a matching email.

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Roblox Build interface on a mobile device showing text prompt input and a generated 3D game environmentAI

Roblox Build Lands July 28 - Type a Prompt, Publish a Game From Your iPhone

Roblox Build opens for alpha testing in New Zealand on July 28, letting users generate starter games from a text prompt inside the iPhone and iPad app.

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Waze app showing motorcycle mode routing with hazard indicators on a city mapAI

Waze Adds Motorcycle Mode and Personalized Navigation in a Five-Feature Gemini Push

Waze motorcycle mode launches today alongside personalized navigation, a quieter voice option, and two new Gemini tools. Seven countries get motorcycle routing.

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