#AI Tools

Google Photos Video Remix interface showing the Create tab with artistic video effects powered by Gemini OmniAI

Google Photos Video Remix: How to Use It, What It Can't Do, and How It Compares to CapCut

Google Photos Video Remix launched July 8 for AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers. Five effects, a 10-second clip limit, and how it compares to CapCut.

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OpenAI GPT-Live voice model interface showing the full-duplex audio architecture for ChatGPT VoiceAI

OpenAI Launches GPT-Live - a Full-Duplex Voice Model That Talks While It Listens

GPT-Live launches today across ChatGPT globally. Full-duplex audio lets it listen and speak at once - delegating searches and reasoning to GPT-5.5 in the background.

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Google Gemini logo representing the Gemini 3.5 Pro model targeting July 17 2026 release after a ground-up rebuildAI

Gemini 3.5 Pro Targets July 17 - and Google Rebuilt It From Scratch to Get There

Gemini 3.5 Pro targets July 17 with a 2M token context window. Google rebuilt it from scratch. DeepSeek's deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner aliases stop responding July 24.

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Meta Muse AI image generator interface showing prompt-based image creation in the Meta AI appAI

Meta Launches Muse, an AI Image Generator Built for Ads, Creators, and Instagram Stories

Meta launched Muse Image, a new AI image generator built for ads and creators. Free in Meta AI, Instagram Stories, and WhatsApp. Muse Video is next.

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Abstract visualization of video frames being processed and indexed by AI, representing TwelveLabs's Marengo 3.0 multimodal video embedding modelAI

TwelveLabs Raises $100M and Signs AWS Trainium Deal to Scale Video AI

TwelveLabs raised $100M Series B with Amazon signing on as preferred cloud partner - new models will optimize for AWS Trainium and launch there first.

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Person working on a laptop completing micro-tasks, representing Amazon Mechanical Turk's 21-year crowdsourcing marketplace closing to new customers on July 30, 2026AI

Amazon Mechanical Turk Closes to New Customers July 30 After 21 Years

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.

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Colonial-era figures gathered around a parchment document in Google's Declaration of Independence commercialAI

Google's Declaration of Independence Ad Puts Gemini in 1776. Bluesky Calls It Tone Deaf.

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.

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Google Maps app shown on a smartphone displaying the Ask Maps conversational interface, representing the upcoming Gemini-powered food ordering featureAI

Google Maps Is Testing a Gemini Feature That Places Your Dinner Order Before You Arrive

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.

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Illustration showing Alibaba blocking Claude Code after reverse engineers discovered user-detection code in an April software releaseAI

Alibaba Bans Claude Code After Reverse Engineers Find User-Detection Code in April Release

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.

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Engineers collaborating at laptops in a modern office, representing AWS forward-deployed engineering teamsAI

AWS Launches $1 Billion Forward-Deployed Engineers Unit to Embed With Customers

AWS committed $1 billion on June 30 to a new forward-deployed engineering unit that sends engineers to embed inside customer organizations for 45-day periods.

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OpenAI Codex Micro macro pad featuring 13 mechanical switches, a joystick control, and a touch sensor for AI-powered developer workflowsAI

OpenAI Reveals Codex Micro: A 13-Key Macro Pad for Developer AI Workflows

OpenAI unveiled its first hardware product: the Codex Micro, a 13-key macro pad co-built with Work Louder for developers running AI coding sessions.

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Cursor iOS app interface showing an AI agent running on a mobile phoneApps

Cursor Launches iOS App in Public Beta to Run AI Agents From Your Phone

Cursor for iOS launched in public beta June 29 for all paid plans. Launch cloud agents, track them on your lock screen, and merge PRs from your phone.

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