AI Product Launches
New AI products and major releases, explained in terms of what they can actually do and who they affect.
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AMD and Cerebras Partner to Speed Up AI Responses
AMD and Cerebras have joined forces to build a combined AI processing system that handles far more work at once while also replying much faster, targeting businesses that need real-time AI agents and live assistants, with the joint product arriving through Cerebras Cloud later this year.
July 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Microsoft Launches Own AI Image and Voice Models
Microsoft has released two new in-house AI models, one for generating and editing images and one for powering voice interactions, and is now using them inside its own products like PowerPoint, OneDrive, and call center software, cutting its reliance on OpenAI while slashing its own costs.
July 25, 2026 · 2 min read
New AI Lab Prentis Raises $100M to Automate Office Work
A new AI lab called Prentis, backed by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Zynga founder Marc Pincus, is seeking $100 million at a $1 billion valuation to build AI that can take over routine computer tasks in industries like insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing.
July 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5 at Half the Price of Fable 5
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 today, a model that matches or beats its more expensive Fable 5 on most everyday tasks at half the price, making powerful AI meaningfully cheaper for professional and enterprise users.
July 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta AI Adds Calendar and Daily Briefings
Meta is adding calendar access, daily briefings, and automated task management to its AI chatbot, a sharp change from its earlier focus on entertainment, and the update matters because it puts a productivity assistant in front of over a billion people who already use WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram every day.
July 24, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI Now Sells AI Agents With Engineers Included
OpenAI launched Presence, a managed service that deploys AI agents for customer service and internal operations inside enterprise companies, with OpenAI's own engineers doing the setup work rather than leaving it to the buyer.
July 24, 2026 · 3 min read
Google Gemini Spark Now Open to $20/Month Subscribers
Google has expanded its always-on AI assistant Spark to users paying $20 a month for Google AI Pro in the US, down from the $100 minimum it required at launch, which means a much larger slice of Google's paid user base can now try an AI that works in the background without them having to ask it anything.
July 24, 2026 · 2 min read
ChatGPT Now Reads Your Medical Records, Free Users Get Weaker Advice
OpenAI has rolled out a health feature that connects ChatGPT to personal medical records and fitness apps, but free users receive lower-quality health responses than paying subscribers, raising questions about a two-tier system in a space where accuracy can have real consequences.
July 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Claude Voice Mode Now Works With Smarter Models
Anthropic has upgraded Claude's voice mode to run on its more capable Sonnet and Opus models, added connections to Gmail, Slack, and Canva, and expanded to ten languages, closing a gap that made voice useful only for quick, surface-level questions.
July 23, 2026 · 2 min read
AegisAI Raises $36M to Block AI-Crafted Phishing Emails
A startup founded by former Google security engineers has raised $36 million to fight a fast-growing threat: AI tools that let criminals send thousands of highly personalized, convincing fake emails to businesses at once.
July 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Runway Launches Automatic Model Picker for Media Generation
Runway has launched a tool that automatically selects the best AI image, video, or audio model for each job based on quality, speed, or cost, positioning itself as the go-to platform for companies that build media generation into their own products.
July 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Claude Can Now Query Its Own Job Impact Data
Anthropic built a connector that lets any Claude user ask direct questions about its Economic Index, a dataset tracking how AI is changing work across hundreds of occupations and every US state, making labour-impact research instantly accessible without any technical setup.
July 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Glow Raises $180M to Stop AI Tools From Breaching Your Network
A new cybersecurity startup called Glow launched today with $180 million in funding and a $1.2 billion valuation, built around the growing problem of employees installing AI tools on company devices without anyone's knowledge or approval.
July 22, 2026 · 2 min read
Synthesia Launches AI Tool to Coach Employees Live
Synthesia, the British AI video company valued at $4 billion, launched an interactive role-play product that lets employees practice real conversations with AI avatars and get scored, shifting the company from content creation toward measurable workforce performance data.
July 22, 2026 · 2 min read
Google Launches Three New Gemini Models for Business AI Agents
Google released three new AI models today targeting businesses running automated workflows, with the main model cutting the cost per task by generating fewer words to get the same result, a speed-first option for high-volume processing, and a restricted security model for finding and fixing software vulnerabilities.
July 21, 2026 · 3 min read
Google Renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
Google has renamed its popular research tool NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, adding the ability to run data analysis directly inside notebooks, and planning to connect your notes to Google Search, which matters if your team already uses it to organize reports, contracts, or research.
July 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Ramp Launches Free Tool to Track Company AI Bills
Ramp has launched a free AI spending tracker that shows finance teams exactly where their company's AI money is going, at a moment when AI costs across businesses have grown over 13x since January 2025 and most finance departments have almost no visibility into that spending.
July 18, 2026 · 2 min read
NVIDIA Launches Cheaper AI Chips for Robots
NVIDIA has announced two new computer modules, the T3000 and T2000, designed to make AI-powered robots cheaper to build at a moment when memory prices have surged dramatically, with actual hardware shipping in early 2027.
July 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Roblox Lets Anyone Build a Game From a Phone
Roblox launches a mobile AI game-creation tool that turns a text description into a playable game, opening a real creator economy to anyone with a smartphone while raising serious questions about what happens when millions of people flood a platform with AI-made content.
July 16, 2026 · 2 min read
China's Moonshot AI Launches Kimi K3, Its Most Powerful Model
Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K3, a massive open-weight model that reportedly rivals Anthropic's top closed model, arriving as businesses worldwide are increasingly questioning whether paying premium prices for proprietary AI tools still makes sense.
July 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Google AI Mode Now Connects Directly to Third-Party Apps
Google has added app integrations to its AI Mode search experience, starting with Instacart, Canva, and YouTube, a move that extends a wider pattern where AI assistants are replacing the step of opening a separate app to get things done.
July 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Thinking Machines Launches First AI Model You Can Own
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released its first AI model, Inkling, as a freely downloadable open-weight model that companies can customize on their own infrastructure, directly challenging the subscription-based model sold by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
July 15, 2026 · 3 min read
Whatnot Buys AI Startup to Fix Live Shopping Discovery
Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform processing over 500,000 hours of live video weekly, has acquired Shaped, an AI company that builds real-time product recommendation systems, as the race to personalize online shopping intensifies across every major resale platform.
July 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Emergent Raises $130M to Build Apps for Non-Coders
Indian AI startup Emergent hit a $1.5 billion valuation just over a year after launch by selling software-building tools to small businesses and entrepreneurs who have never written a line of code, signaling that the real AI gold rush is not inside tech companies but in the millions of ordinary businesses still running on spreadsheets and email.
July 15, 2026 · 2 min read