Snap launches Spectacles AR glasses at $2,195, delivering a 115-inch virtual cinema screen in a lightweight 136-gram wearable that bridges the gap between smart glasses and full headsets, targeting developers and early adopters as a milestone toward an AI-powered future that could eventually replace smartphones.
Databricks launches a sweeping open-source AI stack—including a cross-cloud sharing platform, a multi-agent orchestration tool, and a state-of-the-art open LLM—positioning itself as the antidote to Big Tech's fragmented, closed AI ecosystems.
AI startup General Intuition is raising $300M at a $2B valuation, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, leveraging 2 billion gaming videos annually to train embodied AI agents with unique spatial-temporal reasoning capabilities.
Claude Code launches a new beta Artifacts feature that transforms coding sessions into live, interactive, and shareable web pages — complete with version history, auto-refresh, and org-level access controls for Team and Enterprise users.
Databricks launches CustomerLake, an AI-powered Customer Data Platform natively built into its Lakehouse, featuring Profile Agents and Campaign Agents that unify customer data and automate real-time, AI-driven marketing campaigns, with early adopters including HP and partners like Adobe, Meta, and Braze already on board.
Anthropic vows its blocked frontier AI models, Mythos and Fable 5, will be restored 'in coming days' after a White House security directive halts global access, with Korea at the center of the controversy following a Chinese-linked telecom company allegedly triggering the U.S. export block.
Bipartisan lawmakers are demanding answers from the Commerce Department over its June 12 decision to impose export controls on Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 AI models, warning the move could set a sweeping new precedent for frontier AI regulation across the entire sector.
NVIDIA launches an open source XR AI beta platform enabling developers to build real-time visual and voice AI agents for AR glasses and XR headsets, powered by GPU-accelerated services including Cosmos, Nemotron, and NeMo Agent Toolkit.
Replit is now integrated directly into Claude, allowing users to design, build, and ship apps entirely through natural language without ever leaving the chat interface.
Anthropic overhauls Claude Design with GitHub imports, brand compliance enforcement, seamless design-to-code integration, and nine new export partners including Adobe, Canva, and Vercel, while also slashing token costs to fix a major pain point from its initial launch.