Runway launches Media Router, a developer tool that automatically selects the best AI image, video, or audio generation model based on quality, speed, or cost priorities, signaling a strategic pivot toward AI infrastructure orchestration as competition from Google, ByteDance, and Alibaba intensifies.
Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3, a groundbreaking multimodal AI capable of generating images, video with audio, and robotic action predictions from one unified model, but its gated early access, absent pricing, and lack of production SLAs leave enterprise buyers unable to fully evaluate it against already-available rivals like Google's …
Microsoft is ditching OpenAI's image-generating models in favor of its own proprietary AI technology across PowerPoint and Bing, with model chief Mustafa Suleyman claiming the switch delivers faster, cheaper, higher-quality results and better user retention.
A new study testing 1,008 AI-generated SVGs across 48 animal-vehicle combinations finds no evidence that AI labs are secretly 'pelicanmaxxing' — gaming Simon Willison's famous pelican-on-a-bicycle SVG benchmark — with pelicans ranking 6th out of 8 animals in drawing quality, suggesting broad SVG optimization rather than targeted benchmark manipulation.
Samsung unveils AI-powered smart glasses with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, featuring Gemini AI, a camera, open-ear speakers, and 9 hours of battery life — directly challenging Meta's Ray-Ban glasses with a fall launch.
Claude Code Desktop launches a public beta iOS Simulator pane on macOS, enabling AI and users to simultaneously build, test, and interact with iOS apps in real time within a shared, isolated simulated environment.
A new open-source C++17 port of ByteDance's Depth Anything 3 model runs up to 1.31x faster than PyTorch on CPU, uses half the memory, loads 6.7x faster, and requires no Python, PyTorch, or CUDA — delivering monocular depth estimation and 3D point cloud export from a single image in a …
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu orders Apple and Google to remove 13 AI 'nudify' apps from their platforms, citing California deepfake porn laws, as both companies begin compliance amid warnings that such apps have amassed 480 million downloads and $120 million in revenue.
Mira Murati's Thinking Labs debuts Inkling, a massive 975-billion-parameter open-weight AI model capable of reasoning across text, images, and audio with a one-million token context window, but it immediately faces stiff competition from Chinese labs like Kimi, whose K3 model boasts 2.8 trillion parameters and already outperforms it on benchmarks.
Roblox launches 'Build,' a mobile-first AI tab that lets anyone create fully functional games from simple text prompts, with a public alpha rolling out July 28 in New Zealand.