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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Salesforce Launches Koa, Its Own AI Reasoning Model
Salesforce built Koa, its first in-house AI reasoning model trained on Nvidia's open Nemotron system using only fake customer data, to cut costs and reduce reliance on OpenAI and Anthropic for everyday sales and service tasks.
September 15, 2026 · 2 min read
ChatGPT Sites Hits 5 Million Apps, Adds Team Tools
OpenAI says people have built over 5 million ChatGPT Sites in three months and just added team editing, private sharing, and custom domains, letting any business build internal tools for free while undercutting paid app-building startups.
September 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Google Drive's Gemini File Organizer Skips Shared Folders
Google's new Gemini tool in Google Drive suggests where to move your loose files, but it only works on private folders, requires a paid AI or Workspace plan, and never actually reads what is inside your documents.
September 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Slack Lets Anyone Build Dashboards by Typing a Request
Slack is rolling out a feature called Surfaces that lets any employee type a plain language request to Slackbot and get a live dashboard, report, or presentation built automatically from company data, without needing a spreadsheet or a data team.
September 10, 2026 · 2 min read
John Deere Launches JD, an AI Assistant for Farm Data
John Deere has rolled out JD, a chat assistant built into its Operations Center software that answers plain questions about harvest timing, fuel use and spraying, marking a template for how AI will be added to physical, equipment heavy industries beyond farming.
September 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Nvidia and Palantir Launch AI Tool to Run Supply Chains
Nvidia is now running its own supply chain on AI software built with Palantir, and the two companies plan to sell the same system to any business or government managing complex, multi-vendor operations.
September 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Apple's New Siri Runs on Google's AI, Not Its Own
Apple has launched Siri AI in iOS 27 with deep personal search and on-screen understanding, but the intelligence behind it is a licensed Google Gemini model that Apple pays roughly one billion dollars a year to use, arriving after years of delay and a $250 million lawsuit settlement over broken AI promises.
September 10, 2026 · 2 min read
ChatGPT Now Turns Doodles Into Realistic Images
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Images 2.5, adding a Sketch tool that turns hand drawn doodles into finished images and cutting generation time roughly in half, as it races to keep pace with Google's rival image tool.
September 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta Launches Muse, an AI Agent That Shops for You
Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that can shop, send emails, and book travel using a secure virtual machine and one-time-use Stripe payment cards, arriving as it races to catch up with buzzy rivals OpenClaw and Instinct while still working to rebuild user trust after past privacy backlashes.
September 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Google Tests Gemini Agent That Controls Your Computer
Google is testing a new Assign mode inside the Gemini desktop app that lets the AI take over a chosen folder and operate apps on your screen, putting it in direct competition with OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude agents that already do this.
September 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Wispr Flow Launches Meeting Notetaker That Skips the Bot
Wispr Flow, the voice dictation company valued at 2 billion dollars, launched a free AI meeting notetaker for Mac that records calls from your device instead of joining as a visible bot, entering a crowded market now facing lawsuits over recording consent.
September 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Adobe Adds AI Clip Generator Inside Premiere's Timeline
Adobe's Premiere video editor now lets editors generate video clips, sound effects, and music directly inside the timeline using Firefly, Google Veo, Runway, Luma, or Kling, but only some of those AI models come with Adobe's legal protection against copyright claims.
September 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Anthropic's Claude Can Now Send Emails From Your Gmail
Anthropic added a free Gmail connector that lets its Claude AI read, draft, send and forward emails on your behalf, a step further than rivals ChatGPT and Gemini have taken and one that opens a real door for scammers to hijack your inbox through hidden instructions in incoming mail.
September 8, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI's ChatGPT Now Builds and Hosts Websites
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Sites, a public beta feature that turns a chat description into a finished, hosted website, putting new pressure on freelance web designers and AI rivals like Lovable, Wix, and Squarespace.
September 7, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Cuts Chat Limits in Half
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet, giving ChatGPT subscribers roughly half the messages of the previous model while API prices jumped about five times, in exchange for real gains in autonomous computer tasks.
September 5, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Rollout Locks Out Paying Users
OpenAI launched its new flagship model GPT-6 Astra by giving business and cybersecurity customers first access while paying ChatGPT subscribers were left waiting, prompting a public apology from CEO Sam Altman.
September 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Google Adds Voice Chat to Gmail, Docs, and Keep
Google has made Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live generally available worldwide, letting paying Google AI subscribers talk to their inbox, documents, and notes instead of typing or scrolling.
September 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Uber Launches 15 Self-Driving Taxis in London
Uber added Wayve's self-driving cars, each still carrying a human safety driver, to its London app, launching the UK's first robotaxi rides while only 15 vehicles are licensed and full driverless operation stays blocked by regulation until at least 2027.
September 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Adobe Puts Photoshop and Firefly Tools Inside Slack
Adobe launched a Slack integration that lets business users create and edit images, videos, and documents by chatting with Slackbot, pulling in over 70 tools from Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and other Adobe apps without opening them directly.
September 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Reliance Jio Opens Cloud PC Subscriptions Nationwide
Reliance Jio, run by Mukesh Ambani, has opened its JioPC cloud computer subscription to anyone with an internet connection in India, letting people rent computing power for less than a dollar a week instead of buying a new laptop.
September 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta Launches AI Transcription API Priced at $0.18 an Hour
Meta released Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time transcription model that tells apart more than 20 speakers across dozens of languages, and it costs a fraction of what rivals from Google and OpenAI charge for similar work.
September 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 Costs More Than It Claims
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 promising up to 45 percent lower costs and stronger coding skills, but an independent testing firm found the new model can actually cost 20 percent more per task at its highest settings because it uses far more output tokens.
September 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Perplexity Launches Hybrid Compute to Keep Data Local
Perplexity's new Hybrid Compute feature for Mac lets users automatically keep sensitive files on their own computer while sending only non-sensitive parts of a task to cloud AI models, cutting both privacy risk and inference costs.
September 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Runway Launches Solaris, AI That Renders Apps Live
Runway, the AI video company, released Solaris, a system that generates websites and apps as live, responsive video instead of running fixed code, so the screen you see is built fresh, in real time, for you.
September 1, 2026 · 2 min read