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xAI has launched a Grok add-in for Microsoft Outlook, available today to all paid X and SuperGrok subscribers. The tool summarizes long email threads, drafts replies that match the user's writing style, and can organize inboxes by archiving finished conversations and flagging messages needing replies. It also reads attachments and searches the web and X without leaving Outlook. The add-in is installable from the Microsoft Marketplace and is also available for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

OpenAI has launched the ChatGPT for Small Businesses program, offering virtual training webinars, in-person AI academies across the US, new guides, and partner integrations with Dropbox, Shopify, Intuit, Slack, and Wix. The program centers on ChatGPT Work, an agentic tool powered by GPT-5.6 that handles multi-step tasks across accounting, marketing, and ecommerce. At previous Small Business AI Jams, 78% of participants built a functional AI workflow in one day, and 42% saved over five hours weekly.

Tesla announced its Robotaxi service is expanding to Orlando and Tampa, Florida, timed strategically ahead of CEO Elon Musk's Q2 earnings call on July 21, 2026. No fleet size or immediate availability details were shared. The expansion contrasts sharply with Musk's 2024 prediction of reaching half the US population by end of 2025. Current tracked numbers show only 17 unsupervised vehicles in Austin, four in Dallas, and zero in Houston, while competitor Waymo operates over 3,500 driverless vehicles across more than 10 cities.

Google has introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model fine-tuned to find, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities. Built on Gemini 3.5 Flash, it outperforms mainline Flash models and Claude Opus 4.6, discovering 55 unique confirmed issues in Chrome's V8 engine versus 47 and 36 respectively. Already deployed in Google's internal codebases including Chrome, Android, and YouTube, it found remote code execution vulnerabilities in just two hours. Access is initially limited to governments and trusted partners via the CodeMender agent platform.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened sanctions against Chinese AI companies if intellectual property theft is established, saying the U.S. supports open source models but not IP theft. The statement follows reports that the Trump administration is considering a wholesale ban on Chinese open source models. Chinese models like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 are gaining popularity, threatening American firms like OpenAI and Anthropic. Critics including Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue argue distillation is a minor factor and that China simply has strong research teams.

Halliday has launched the G2, a new generation of AI-powered smart glasses designed to assist with conversations, meetings, and everyday use. The Halliday G2 features a built-in display and is now available for priority access via the company's website. The glasses are positioned as a practical AI wearable for daily life, targeting users who want real-time assistance during meetings and routine tasks without relying on a smartphone.

At SIGGRAPH 2026, NVIDIA announced several AI advances including Cosmos 3 Edge, a billion-parameter open world model designed to run in real time on local devices for physical AI applications. The company also launched a Synthetic Video Detector NIM microservice for newsrooms to identify AI-generated video frame by frame. Additionally, NVIDIA showcased Model Context Protocol integrations enabling AI agents to work inside creative tools from Adobe, Blender, Unreal Engine, and SideFX Houdini, while keeping creative control with human artists.

Sakana AI has released Fugu-Cyber, a multi-agent orchestration model purpose-built for enterprise cybersecurity, available as a new API endpoint at sakana.ai/fugu. The model achieves 86.9% on the CyberGym benchmark and 72.1% on CTI-REALM, matching frontier models like GPT-5.Cyber and Mythos-Preview. CyberGym tests vulnerability analysis in complex codebases, while CTI-REALM measures threat intelligence translation into detection rules. Access requires an application review, and an updated Acceptable Usage Policy prohibits offensive misuse.

Google is developing a new server chip called "Frozen v2" that permanently etches part of its Gemini AI model architecture into silicon, allowing the chip to skip time-consuming decisions and move less data. Projected to launch by 2028, the chip could be 6 to 10 times more efficient than Google's current TPUs, measured in tokens served per unit of power. The project aims to address Google's AI compute shortage, which has forced Google Cloud to turn away customers.