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Hark has launched Hark Pro, an AI platform the company describes as an operating system for your life, designed to think ahead and assist with real, practical tasks. The product onboards users and integrates into daily routines seamlessly. Hark's marketing takes direct aim at competitors, with promotional material referencing unsubscribing from ChatGPT. The launch video, posted on YouTube, has drawn early attention, with viewers praising its UI and speculating about potential acquisition interest from Apple.

Google has launched EmbeddingGemma 2, a million-parameter multimodal embedding model built on the Gemma 4 architecture and released under an Apache 2.0 license. It maps text, images, audio, video, and code into a unified embedding space for on-device inference. The model features an 8K token context window, Matryoshka Representation Learning for up to 6x storage reduction, and requires as little as 567MB RAM for full multimodal use on a Pixel 11 Pro. It follows EmbeddingGemma 1, which surpassed 20 million downloads.

Atlassian and OpenAI are expanding their partnership to bring GPT-6 family models, including GPT-6 Astra and the GPT-5.6 series, across Atlassian's platform and Rovo AI assistant. Rovo combines OpenAI intelligence with Atlassian's Teamwork Graph, an enterprise context layer linking people, projects, documents, and decisions. The deal, building on a 2023 collaboration, also sees over 3,000 Atlassian developers using OpenAI's Codex. The companies are exploring deeper Jira integrations to let teams assign work to AI agents and track results.

Google has partnered with the WHO and other institutions to deploy Google Earth AI tools for proactive disease outbreak forecasting. During the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, WHO AFRO used a Geospatial Reasoning agent prototype to identify 48 exposed settlements and over 45,500 at-risk people in minutes, a process that normally takes weeks. The system also forecasts dengue in Mexico, predicts cholera hotspots eight weeks in advance in the DRC, and supports cardiovascular mortality projections at NYU Langone Health.

Pinterest launched Beauty Guides, a new AI feature that converts saved hair and nail Pins into actionable salon plans. Powered by Pinterest Intelligence, the tool translates visual inspiration into stylist terminology users may not know, such as "balayage," "root melt," or "almond nails." Accessed via a "Get the Guide" button, it provides specific requests to make at the salon, estimated time, price ranges, and maintenance requirements like toning or trimming frequency. At launch, it covers hairstyle, color, nail shape, and finish.

Reflection AI has introduced Beam, a billion-parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 23 billion active parameters, designed for coding, reasoning, and agentic workloads. Trained on 23.8 trillion tokens, Beam underwent a massive reinforcement learning run using 10,500 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs over four weeks, generating over 100 million rollouts. It matches or outperforms similar open-weight models like GLM 5.2 on coding benchmarks while using 3–4× less inference compute. Weights and a technical report will be released later this month.

At Advertising Week New York 2026, TikTok unveiled a suite of AI-powered advertising tools including Agentic Commerce features like Buy Direct, a one-click in-app checkout, and Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent for product discovery. The platform also launched TikTok Ad Network (TTAN), extending campaigns across nearly 400,000 apps worldwide. Additional updates include Agentic Leads for AI-guided lead generation, Smart+ Creative Selection, and expanded GMV Max capabilities. TikTok's MCP connector is now available on Claude, Perplexity, and Snowflake, among others.

Instinct AI now supports group chats, letting multiple users collaboratively plan trips, coordinate logistics, split ticket costs, manage fantasy leagues, and organize carpools in a single thread. Friends without Instinct can still participate. The feature includes careful permission controls: your personal Instinct asks before connecting to a group Instinct, the group Instinct has no direct access to personal accounts, and new group members trigger a permission hold. Group chats are live for early access users and rolling out broadly soon.

OpenAI has boosted inference speed by approximately 50% for GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, raising output from 30 to 50 tokens per second. The improvement applies across all subscription tiers and partner products using Sign in With ChatGPT, including OpenCode, Pi, Amp, and Devin. No user action is required, with the speed increase rolling out within two hours. OpenAI also noted these models use an optimized tokenizer and require fewer tokens to complete tasks.