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Anthropic Ends Flat-Rate Access to Its Best AI Model
Starting July 12, Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, its most capable publicly available AI model, moves to pay-per-use billing on top of existing subscriptions, marking the first time a major AI company has charged consumers extra beyond their monthly fee to access a flagship model.
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Colorado Softens AI Law, Federal Fight Continues
Colorado replaced its ambitious AI accountability law with a lighter disclosure-only version in May 2026, but a federal lawsuit backed by the DOJ and a White House campaign against state AI laws mean the new version could face legal challenges too.
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Meta Starts Making Its Own AI Chips in September
Meta begins production of its own purpose-built AI chips this September, part of a strategy to reduce its dependence on Nvidia as the company prepares to spend up to $145 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, with direct consequences for how well-targeted ads across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp will become.
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SambaNova Raises $1 Billion at $11 Billion Valuation
SambaNova, a chip startup that was nearly sold to Intel for $1.6 billion just seven months ago, has raised $1 billion at a $11 billion valuation, with JPMorgan Chase as its first major bank customer, signaling that large enterprises in regulated industries are beginning to install private AI hardware inside their own buildings rather than using the cloud.
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Ollama Raises $65M to Run AI Locally, Free of Cloud Fees
Ollama, a tool that lets developers run AI models on their own computers instead of paying per-use cloud fees, has raised $65 million and now sits inside 85% of Fortune 500 companies, signalling that businesses of all sizes are actively looking for cheaper, more private alternatives to the big AI services.
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OpenAI Sends Engineers to Work Inside Your Business
OpenAI's deployment arm has acquired Northslope, its second purchase in two months, as part of a $4 billion push to send hundreds of engineers directly into client companies to build and run AI systems, putting it in direct competition with consulting firms like Accenture.
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Work to Run Tasks for You
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work today, a tool that connects to your existing apps, runs multi-step work tasks for hours without you watching, and delivers finished documents, slides, and reports.
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US Regulators Order Self-Driving Car Firms to Fix Emergency Response Problem
America's road safety regulator has told self-driving car companies they have until the end of July to present solutions after documenting a clear pattern of driverless vehicles blocking ambulances, freezing at fire scenes, and failing to recognize basic emergency signals.
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NHS Adds AI Blood Test to Womb Cancer Checks
Two NHS hospital trusts in England are rolling out a £30 AI-powered blood test that can identify women at very low risk of womb cancer before they go through uncomfortable internal scans, potentially sparing around 18,000 women a year from an invasive procedure.
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Meta AI Glasses Add a Privacy Fix, Then Undercut It
Meta updated its AI glasses to disable the camera when the recording light is physically removed, a real fix for a documented abuse problem, but on the same day it rolled out features that pull more of your personal data into its systems, and facial recognition code is already sitting on tens of millions of devices waiting to be switched on.
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Prime Intellect Raises $130M to Build Your Own AI
Prime Intellect, a startup that lets companies train and own their own AI agents without relying on OpenAI or Anthropic, has raised $130 million at a $1 billion valuation, arriving at exactly the moment enterprises are rethinking what it means to hand their operations over to a third-party AI provider they cannot control.
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xAI Launches Grok 4.5 at a Fraction of Rival Prices
xAI, now part of SpaceX, has launched Grok 4.5, a powerful AI model aimed at coding, research, and office work that undercuts its main rivals on price by a wide margin, though independent performance tests are still pending.
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Anthropic Passes OpenAI in Business AI Spending
For the first time, more businesses are paying for Anthropic's AI than OpenAI's, according to real transaction data from 50,000 companies, but the more important story is that experienced buyers have stopped caring about who is winning and started building systems that let them switch whenever the leaderboard flips.
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OpenAI Sets Rules for Government AI Partnerships
OpenAI published formal principles governing how its AI can and cannot be used by governments and militaries, drawing a clear line after a months-long fight between rival Anthropic and the Pentagon ended with Anthropic being labeled a national security risk.
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OpenAI Launches GPT-Live, a New ChatGPT Voice Mode
OpenAI has shipped a new voice system for ChatGPT that can listen and talk at the same time, making conversations feel far more natural, and it points toward a future where voice becomes the primary way people interact with AI at work.
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OpenAI GPT-5.6 Goes Public July 9 After U.S. Review
OpenAI launches its new GPT-5.6 model family to the public on July 9, after a two-week government-ordered delay under a new White House policy that requires AI companies to submit their most powerful tools for security review before wide release.
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Liberty Mutual Sells Insurance Inside ChatGPT
Liberty Mutual has launched the first major US carrier insurance quoting app inside ChatGPT, a move that signals how traditional industries across the board will soon face pressure to plug into AI platforms or risk being invisible to a growing share of customers.
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Australia Flags Office Jobs Most at Risk From AI
Australia's first government-backed study of AI and the job market has named accountants, clerks, receptionists, and marketers as the roles most exposed to automation, and found those jobs are growing measurably slower than the rest of the economy.
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EU Court Rules Apple Must Keep App Store Open
A European court rejected Apple's attempt to escape 'gatekeeper' rules, meaning rival apps, payment systems, and devices must stay able to work with Apple's platforms in the EU, with more fines and restrictions still pending.
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Accenture Launches AI Unit for Mid-Sized Companies
Accenture has created a new division called Accenture Edge, partnered with Google Cloud, to sell pre-built AI tools to companies with revenues between $300 million and $3 billion, a segment that has largely been left out of enterprise-grade AI services.
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