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Gemini can now generate personalized images from your Google Photos
Google has expanded Personal Intelligence: Gemini now uses your Google Photos and the Nano Banana 2 model to generate images tailored to your lifestyle.

OpenAI updates Codex with desktop control, image generation and memory of past tasks
OpenAI has expanded Codex: the agent can now control macOS desktop apps, generate images and remember the context of earlier tasks.

Google adds split screen to AI Mode: websites now open next to the chat
Google has updated AI Mode in Chrome Desktop: clicking a link now opens the site beside the AI chat instead of a new tab, so users can verify sources without…

Upscale AI in talks for a third round at a $2 billion valuation, seven months after launch

Factory raises $150 million from Khosla Ventures at a $1.5 billion valuation

The "AI Is Inevitable" Trap: Have We Hit Peak AI Hype?

Dairy Queen rolls out voice AI at dozens of drive-thrus across the US and Canada

Tokenmaxxing and the Chasm: OpenAI Buys Everything While Anthropic Hides a Model
Tokenmaxxing, OpenAI's acquisitions, a shoe brand turned AI infrastructure play, and an Anthropic model deemed "too powerful for the public": the gap between AI…

Anthropic launches Claude Design, quick visuals for non-designers
Anthropic has released Claude Design, a standalone tool for quickly creating visuals, aimed at founders and product managers without design skills.

Wired: Newsrooms Are Quietly Rolling Out AI Writing Assistants — and Staying Silent on the Consequences

Anthropic Makes Peace With Trump: New Claude Mythos Model Targets Cybersecurity

Sora team lead Bill Peebles leaves OpenAI after the project's shutdown

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles Leave OpenAI as Company Shuts Down Sora and Its Science Division

Uber shifts to an asset-ownership strategy: what it means for the taxi market
Uber is dropping its "platform only" model and building its own asset base: fleets, infrastructure and robotaxis.

The 12-month window: AI startups survive until OpenAI reaches their niche
Most AI startups live in niches that the large foundation models haven't reached yet. That is temporary, and the founders know it well.

OpenAI's Two Existential Challenges: Can Acquisitions Save the Company?
Analysts on the Equity podcast examined OpenAI's recent acquisitions and asked whether they can resolve the two key crises threatening the company's future.

Yelp turns its AI assistant into a digital concierge that can book reservations

Medical student earns thousands of dollars from a fake AI conservative woman aimed at men

John Ternus to replace Tim Cook at Apple, and walks straight into an AI problem

Startup GRAI thinks AI should help fans remix music, not replace artists

YouTube expands AI likeness detection to celebrities, giving them a new tool against deepfakes
YouTube is giving celebrities and their representatives access to an AI tool that automatically finds deepfakes, letting them request removal of synthetic videos…

Bond, a new social network that uses AI to wean you off doomscrolling
Startup Bond built a platform where AI actively nudges users to close the app and return to the real world, instead of keeping them glued to the screen.

Clarifai destroys 3 million OkCupid user photos handed over for AI training, at the FTC's demand

Sam Altman slams Anthropic's new Mythos model as "fear-based marketing"

YouTube expands deepfake protection: Hollywood stars will be able to remove AI clones

OpenAI explains why Codex Security doesn't use traditional SAST analysis

ChatGPT launches visual shopping built on the Agentic Commerce Protocol
OpenAI has added a full shopping engine to ChatGPT: visual product cards, side-by-side comparison and direct store integration through a new open protocol.

OpenAI releases prompt-based teen safety policies for gpt-oss-safeguard developers
OpenAI has released ready-made teen safety policies for developers building on gpt-oss-safeguard, adding age-aware moderation without code rewrites.

OpenAI launches Safety Bug Bounty targeting vulnerabilities in agentic AI systems
OpenAI has opened a rewards program for researchers who find AI-specific vulnerabilities: prompt injection, data leaks and attacks on agentic systems.

OpenAI raises $122 billion to expand frontier AI and compute capacity

Gradient Labs gives every bank customer a personal AI account manager built on GPT-4.1

OpenAI launches a fellowship program for independent AI safety researchers

















