Meta AI is launching powerful agentic features powered by Llama 4, enabling it to autonomously plan tasks, manage emails and calendars, generate slides, and deliver personalized daily briefings and meal plans — requiring users to set things up just once.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, a powerful AI model rivaling its flagship Fable 5 with enhanced cybersecurity safeguards, improved coding capabilities, and competitive pricing at $5 input and $25 output per million tokens — half the cost of Fable 5 and undercutting OpenAI's GPT-5.6.
OpenAI launches hands-free voice control for coding tools in its ChatGPT desktop app, letting paid subscribers on macOS and Windows use continuous voice commands to debug, review pull requests, and generate unit tests simultaneously through integrated GPT-Live full-duplex capabilities.
Anthropic upgrades Claude's voice mode with access to more powerful Sonnet and Opus AI models, app integrations with Gmail and Slack, and expanded language support, though it still lacks fully duplex processing found in rival OpenAI's GPT-Live.
Samsung launches the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Fold8, and Flip8 at its London Unpacked event, featuring deep AI integration including Gemini automation across 40+ apps and a smarter FlexWindow, as foldables inch toward mainstream adoption ahead of Apple's anticipated foldable debut this fall.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health for all U.S. users 18+ across free and paid plans, integrating personal medical data as weekly health queries hit a record 300 million, even as the company faces legal scrutiny over a potentially dangerous medical suggestion.
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.
Yelp partners with OpenAI to bring real-time local reviews and business data directly into ChatGPT, a bold distribution bet that echoes — and risks repeating — the company's complicated and ultimately adversarial history with Google.
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 …
OpenAI and Anthropic simultaneously launch major voice AI upgrades, integrating hands-free control and third-party connectivity into their flagship products as both companies race to dominate voice as AI's next big frontier ahead of anticipated IPOs.