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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Google Releases Android 17 and Wear OS 7 Today
Google has launched Android 17 and Wear OS 7 simultaneously today, bringing floating app windows and smarter multitasking to phones, better battery life to smartwatches, and laying the groundwork for AI-powered smart glasses arriving this fall.
June 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Databricks Launches App Store for Enterprise Data Teams
Databricks has opened a marketplace where enterprise customers can install third-party data and AI apps directly inside their own secure environment, removing the usual weeks-long procurement and security review process that slows down business teams.
June 16, 2026 · 2 min read
HPE and NVIDIA Launch Private AI Infrastructure for Agents
HPE and NVIDIA are expanding their joint on-premises AI system to support AI agents that can act autonomously inside companies, adding new hardware, security controls, and governance tools at a moment when most enterprises are deploying agents faster than they can manage them.
June 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Mobileye Launches Its Own Robotaxi Service in US
Mobileye, the Israeli company whose self-driving technology sits inside over 230 million cars globally, is stepping out from behind the scenes to run its own driverless taxi service in the US starting in 2027, entering a market already dominated by Waymo.
June 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Sakana AI Launches 8-Hour Research Agent for Enterprises
Tokyo-based Sakana AI launched its first commercial product this week, an autonomous research agent that runs for up to eight hours and produces reports of up to 100 pages with presentation slides, targeting corporate strategy, finance, and consulting teams.
June 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Databricks Launches Genie One, an AI Data Assistant for Business Teams
Databricks has launched Genie One, a plain-English data assistant that lets non-technical staff ask questions about company data directly in Slack, Microsoft Teams, or a mobile app, without needing to involve IT or data analysts.
June 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Databricks Launches AI Spending Controls for Enterprise Agents
Databricks used its annual Data + AI Summit this week to expand Unity AI Gateway, a product that gives organizations a single place to see, limit, and audit what their AI agents are doing and spending across multiple AI providers.
June 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Probably AI Raises $9M to Stop AI Errors at the Source
A new startup called Probably, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, has built a system that catches AI errors before they reach users, and can run on a regular office computer instead of expensive cloud servers, which matters because enterprise AI bills are already spiraling out of control.
June 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Databricks Launches CustomerLake, an AI-Powered CDP
Databricks has built a customer marketing platform directly inside its data infrastructure, letting large companies run AI-driven campaigns without copying sensitive customer data into yet another separate tool.
June 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Malaysia's Respond.io Raises $62.5M to Enter Western Markets
A profitable Malaysian startup that helps businesses manage customer conversations across WhatsApp, TikTok, and Instagram just raised $62.5 million to expand into North America and Europe, where the shift to messaging-first sales is finally accelerating.
June 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Google's Gemma 4 Models Now Available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now offers Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 model family, giving businesses a way to run capable open-weight AI on AWS infrastructure without managing servers or sending data to third parties.
June 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Facebook Adds AI Search Pulling from Public Posts
Meta has launched AI Mode on Facebook, a search feature that turns public posts and group discussions into direct answers, as the company moves to make its platforms more useful while building toward paid subscription tiers.
June 15, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI Launches GPT-Realtime-2, Its Smartest Voice Model
OpenAI shipped GPT-Realtime-2 on May 7, 2026, a voice model that can reason through complex problems during a live spoken conversation, bringing the same intelligence level as GPT-5 to phone and voice agent deployments for the first time.
June 13, 2026 · 2 min read
AWS Launches AI Tool to Read and Analyze Any Document
Amazon has released a managed service that can automatically read, sort, and extract meaning from millions of documents, including PDFs, contracts, and scanned files, cutting the manual review work that still consumes significant staff time and budget across most industries.
June 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Google Launches Open Format for AI Agent Knowledge
Google Cloud has released the Open Knowledge Format, a free, vendor-neutral standard for organizing internal business knowledge so that AI agents can find and use it reliably, addressing one of the most common reasons AI tools produce wrong or incomplete answers inside companies.
June 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Apple Designs New Siri to Help, Not to Flatter
Apple's rebuilt Siri, arriving with iOS 27, is deliberately designed to complete tasks and stop, rejecting the flattery-driven behavior that got ChatGPT and other AI assistants into serious trouble, and the distinction matters more than it sounds.
June 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Theker Raises $85M for Robots That Switch Tasks
Barcelona-based Theker just closed Europe's largest ever robotics Series A, backed by Samsung, LVMH, and Inditex, building factory robots that adapt to different jobs without needing to be reprogrammed, at a moment when manufacturers globally are running short of workers.
June 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Perplexity Deep Research Now Runs Across 20+ AI Models
Perplexity has upgraded its Deep Research tool to run inside its multi-model Computer system, letting it split any research question across 20+ specialist AI models and return a finished report, slide deck, or spreadsheet, with citation accuracy roughly doubling on web-browsing tasks.
June 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Visa Wires ChatGPT to Buy Things on Your Behalf
Three days after OpenAI confirmed its plan to turn ChatGPT into a full work platform, Visa plugged its payment network directly into the product, meaning the AI can now find, select, and pay for goods at any of the 175 million merchants that accept Visa, with a human approving or pre-authorising the purchase.
June 11, 2026 · 3 min read
Microsoft Launches AI Memory Layer for Enterprise at Build 2026
Microsoft used its annual Build conference to ship a package of tools that let AI systems remember and understand how a specific business actually operates, a shift that matters to any organization that has already started using AI tools and found them frustratingly generic.
June 11, 2026 · 3 min read
Google Launches DiffusionGemma, a Free Open AI Model
Google has released DiffusionGemma, a free, open-weight AI text model that generates responses up to four times faster than standard AI models by writing whole blocks of text at once instead of word by word, though it trades some accuracy for that speed.
June 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Databricks Connects AI Tools to On-Premises Data
Databricks launches a storage partner program that lets its AI and analytics tools read data stored on company servers without moving it to the cloud, addressing a real problem for banks, manufacturers, pharma companies, and any large organization whose data cannot leave its own walls.
June 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Jedify Raises $24M to Feed AI Agents Your Business Data
New York startup Jedify has raised $24 million to solve one of the most common reasons AI deployments fail inside large companies: the AI does not know how your business actually works.
June 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5 With Hard Safety Limits
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, its most powerful AI model available to the public, but the model automatically blocks or redirects questions on cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry to an older, less capable model, a design choice that matters for any business exploring AI for technical or scientific work.
June 9, 2026 · 2 min read