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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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
Apple Launches New Siri AI with Public Beta
Apple has opened its redesigned Siri to everyday users through a free public beta, turning the long-struggling voice assistant into a proper AI tool that reads your emails, messages, and screen, putting it in direct competition with ChatGPT and Gemini, though EU users are blocked from the iPhone version with no clear timeline for a fix.
July 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Anthropic Launches Free AI Tool for US K-12 Teachers
Anthropic is giving verified US K-12 teachers free access to premium Claude capabilities, including lesson planning, student data analysis, and curriculum-aligned tools, with a clear pledge not to use any school data to train its AI models.
July 14, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI Lifts Usage Cap on Its Most Powerful ChatGPT Plan
OpenAI temporarily removed the five-hour usage limit on its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model for paid subscribers after demand surged, a move that signals where AI at work is heading, even if limits return soon.
July 14, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI Admits ChatGPT Work Launch Went Wrong
OpenAI's rollout of ChatGPT Work and its new GPT-5.6 model family went badly enough that the company publicly admitted mistakes within 24 hours, with users burning through their monthly usage budgets faster than expected, a confusing app redesign, and documented cases of the AI deleting files it was never told to touch.
July 11, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI Folds Atlas Browser Into ChatGPT Desktop App
OpenAI is shutting down its nine-month-old Atlas browser and moving its AI web capabilities into a Chrome extension and a redesigned ChatGPT desktop app, a signal that for now the major AI companies have largely concluded that the browser itself is not the prize.
July 9, 2026 · 2 min read
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.
July 9, 2026 · 2 min read
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.
July 9, 2026 · 2 min read
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.
July 9, 2026 · 3 min read
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.
July 8, 2026 · 2 min read
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.
July 8, 2026 · 2 min read