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Apple's watchOS 27 developer beta brings Siri AI to the Apple Watch, creating a more unified assistant experience shared with iPhone and Mac. Unlike previous Siri, the upgraded version handles complex cross-app queries, surfaces notes and reminder lists, and stores conversations accessible on both wrist and phone. Reviewer Victoria Song notes it outperforms Gemini on competing Pixel and Galaxy watches. watchOS 27 also adds a new single-tap gesture, an App Launcher shortcut menu, and expanded Workout Buddy fitness insights now available in Spanish.

Perplexity has rolled out several updates to its Computer product. Brain is a self-improving memory system that builds a private context graph across sessions, lifting answer correctness 25% and recall 16% while cutting costs 13%. Claude Fable 5 is now available as an orchestrator for complex multi-step tasks, and Opus 4.8 fast mode enables quicker responses. Users can also publish websites to pplx.app or custom domains via Vercel, and private company financial data from Forge Global is now accessible to all Computer users.

Apple has filed a page lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the AI company of orchestrating a scheme to steal trade secrets ahead of its planned hardware device launch. The suit centers on three former Apple employees: Tang Tan, now OpenAI's chief hardware officer; Chang Liu, who retained an Apple computer and exploited a security vulnerability to download confidential files; and Yu-Ting Peng. OpenAI allegedly coached departing Apple workers to evade exit security checks, requested hardware samples during job interviews, and misled an Apple manufacturing partner into sharing a proprietary metal-finishing technique.

Sam Altman and Elon Musk traded social media barbs over the weekend, with Altman accusing Musk of misleading investors on space data centers. Experts — including entrepreneurs at space data center startups and Google's orbital compute team — agree that the business won't scale until rockets like Starship become truly reusable and high-powered satellites can be mass-produced cheaply. SpaceX even conceded during its IPO road show that Starship may not be fully reusable near-term, making large-scale space data centers a question for the 2030s.

Waze is rolling out several new features globally on Android and iOS. Motorcycle mode uses AI to find two-wheeler-friendly routes and flag hazards like potholes and narrow bridges, launching first in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, and the Philippines. A new less chatty mode reduces voice prompts while preserving critical alerts. Gemini-powered conversational search lets users find destinations by voice, and conversational reporting now supports map update suggestions sent to local editors for verification.

Anthropic analyzed 309,815 Claude.ai conversations across three models and 20 languages, finding that Claude's expressed values shift measurably depending on both the model version and the language used. Using four key axes—Deference vs. Caution, Warmth vs. Rigor, Depth vs. Brevity, and Candor vs. Execution—researchers found Sonnet 4.6 leans warm and deferential, Opus 4.7 leans rigorous and cautious, and Claude expresses more warmth in Arabic and Hindi but more rigor in English and Russian.

Dropbox has integrated with OpenAI's ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and ChatGPT Codex, letting users organize files and folders, create shareable links, generate file requests, and execute multi-step workflows directly within ChatGPT. The integration uses existing Dropbox permissions and governance controls, allowing IT administrators to expand AI adoption securely. Dropbox reports partner AI integration usage has grown over 200% in the past month. The company serves more than 700 million registered users who can now connect the official Dropbox plugin to begin using these capabilities.

OpenAI has temporarily removed the hour usage limit for Codex and ChatGPT Work across all Plus, Business, and Pro plans. The company is also rolling out efficiency improvements to GPT 5.6 Sol that will reduce usage consumption, allowing users to accomplish more before hitting limits. OpenAI announced the exact impact will be quantified and shared later. The platform has reached 6 million active users, and a usage reset was deployed alongside these announcements.

Anthropic is extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans through July 19, while also keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher than normal for the same period. Users on paid plans can spend up to half of their weekly usage limit on Fable 5. Once that cap is reached, they can continue using Fable 5 by spending usage credits, or switch to a different model to keep working within their remaining weekly limits.

Meta has disabled an Instagram AI feature tied to its new Muse Image model that allowed users to generate AI images of public accounts simply by tagging them, after significant backlash. The feature, announced Tuesday, let anyone use public Instagram content in AI creations without the account owner's permission. Critics including the National Center on Sexual Exploitation warned it enabled sextortion. The Screen Actors Guild urged members to opt out. Meta acknowledged the feature missed the mark and removed it entirely.

Apple filed a lawsuit Friday against OpenAI in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging trade secret theft and breach of contract. The complaint targets Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan, a year Apple veteran, accusing him of using confidential project code names during recruiting, asking candidates to bring Apple hardware components to interviews, and coaching departing employees to evade security. Apple also names Chang Liu, who allegedly kept an Apple laptop and downloaded confidential technical documents after joining OpenAI in 2026.

Claude Code's desktop app now includes a built-in sandboxed browser, allowing Claude to pull up documentation, designs, or any website and interact with them the same way it does with local dev servers. Claude can read pages, click through links, and take actions within the browser. The sandbox is configurable, letting users choose whether sessions persist between uses. The feature is available now in the latest version of the Claude Code desktop app.

Sunrun, a solar and home energy storage company, is launching a pilot program to build a distributed AI compute network by placing small compute nodes in customers' homes equipped with its solar and battery systems. Customers will be compensated for hosting the nodes, while Sunrun sells the aggregated compute power to enterprise AI buyers. The program targets Sunrun's 1.1 million customers, who can join a waitlist. It comes as over 70 percent of Americans oppose new data centers due to pollution, noise, and resource concerns.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri says users who dislike AI content should opt out of seeing it in their feeds, but the platform won't filter AI posts entirely. Speaking on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast, Mosseri said Instagram should label AI content rather than ban it, and that AI fans should be able to have an all-AI feed. He acknowledged detecting AI is increasingly hard as models improve, and suggested labeling camera-captured content instead. Instagram also launched Meta's Muse Spark AI image generator, drawing exploitation concerns from child safety advocates.

"To celebrate the launch of GPT-5.6 Sol, OpenAI is resetting rate limits twice across ChatGPT Work and Codex over a hour window. The move is designed to give users extended access to try ambitious tasks and fully explore the new model's capabilities without hitting usage caps. The temporary boost applies to both ChatGPT Work and Codex simultaneously, encouraging users to experiment broadly with GPT-5.6 Sol and get comfortable with what the model can do during the launch period."

Anthropic and UST are partnering to deploy Claude across 20,000 of UST's engineers, architects, and consultants worldwide. UST, which builds engineering systems for semiconductor, automotive, and manufacturing clients, is integrating Claude Code into its iDEC chip validation platform, where it reads hardware schematics, writes regression tests, and compares live equipment data against digital twins. The pipeline already cuts validation cycle times by 50 to 70%, condensing four-day turnarounds into 48 hours. UST is also embedding Claude into healthcare, telecom, and banking platforms.

Google has made AlphaEvolve generally available to all users. AlphaEvolve is a code optimization and discovery agent built on Google's Gemini model, designed to help organizations, researchers, and developers tackle some of their most difficult business problems. The tool uses AI to automate and improve code-based problem solving at scale, broadening access beyond any earlier limited release. Its general availability marks a significant step in Google's push to bring advanced AI coding agents to a wider audience.

Microsoft AI has partnered with poet and Poetry Pharmacy author William Sieghart and creative studio Gravity Road to launch Ode Poetry, a digital experience at odepoetry.ai that uses MAI audio models to replicate Sieghart's one-on-one poetry consultation sessions at global scale. The app uses MAI-Transcribe-1.5, which achieves a 4.86% Word Error Rate on the FLEURS benchmark, and MAI-Voice-2 to recreate Sieghart's distinctive vocal style from a short audio sample.

Anthropic has reset the hour and weekly rate limits for all Claude users. The reset affects both limit types simultaneously across all user tiers. Rate limits on Claude typically restrict how many messages or tokens users can send within a given timeframe, and resets like this temporarily restore full access for users who had hit their caps. No reason was given for the reset, but it offers immediate relief to heavy users who had reached their usage ceilings.

Anthropic has launched Reflect, a beta tool that lets Claude users track and visualize their AI usage patterns across the past 1, 3, 6, or 12 months. Available in Settings on Claude's web and desktop apps, the dashboard shows key topics, usage patterns, and task types, and uses a 4D AI Fluency Framework covering delegation, description, discernment, and diligence. Users can set quiet hours or break reminders. The feature is available to Free, Pro, and Max users with Memory enabled.

OpenAI has audited SWE-Bench Pro, a widely used coding benchmark, and found that approximately 30% of its 731 tasks are broken. Using a pipeline combining automated screening, Codex-based investigator agents, and review by experienced software engineers, OpenAI flagged 200 to 249 broken tasks. Issues include overly strict tests, underspecified prompts, low-coverage tests, and misleading prompts. OpenAI is retracting its earlier recommendation to adopt SWE-Bench Pro and is urging the evaluation community to build new benchmarks designed specifically to test model capabilities.

OpenAI has published its National Security Principles, outlining how its AI technology can and cannot be used in government and defense contexts. Key restrictions include no mass domestic surveillance, no autonomous weapons direction, and no high-stakes automated decisions. The principles cover existing partnerships, including with the U.S. Department of War. OpenAI has also established Trusted Access for Cyber partnerships with nine allied nations under its Daybreak program, and expanded access to its GPT-Rosalind model for biodefense missions.

Mistral AI has launched Robostral Navigate, an 8B model enabling robots to autonomously navigate complex environments using only a single RGB camera and no depth sensors or LiDAR. It achieves 76.6% success on the R2R-CE unseen benchmark, beating the best multi-sensor systems by 4.5 points. Built entirely in-house and trained on 400,000 simulated trajectories across 6,000 scenes, it runs on wheeled, legged, and flying robots. Token-efficient prefix-caching reduced training time from months to days.

Google Photos has launched Video Remix, a new feature powered by the Gemini Omni model that lets users transform ordinary videos into stylized clips in seconds using easy-to-use templates. Available in the Create tab, it offers cinematic relighting, background swapping, and artistic effects like watercolor, sketchbook, and oil painting. No professional editing skills are required. Video Remix is rolling out to eligible Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers in select countries starting July 8, 2026.

xAI will release Grok 4.5 to the public tomorrow, following strong positive feedback from beta testers. Elon Musk described the model as Opus-class but faster, more token-efficient, and lower cost than comparable models. The announcement suggests Grok 4.5 is positioned to compete with top-tier AI models while offering better performance per token and reduced pricing, making it potentially attractive for developers and enterprise customers seeking high capability at lower cost.

Microsoft is shifting away from OpenAI and Anthropic models in some products, replacing them with its own MAI model family to cut costs, according to Bloomberg. Tens of thousands of prompts in Excel and Outlook previously routed through third-party models are now handled by MAI models. Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman called Anthropic extremely expensive, stating the goal is to eliminate that cost entirely. MAI-Thinking 1, a billion-parameter reasoning model, matched Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 in coding benchmarks. Microsoft's OpenAI deal expires in 2032.

OpenAI announced that three new model variants — GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna — will launch publicly this Thursday. The company is simultaneously expanding preview access globally ahead of the full release. Sol, Terra, and Luna appear to be distinct variants within the GPT-5.6 model family. OpenAI has not disclosed specific details about each model's individual capabilities, but the coordinated global preview expansion suggests a broad, simultaneous rollout rather than a staged regional release.

Meta has launched Muse, a new image generation model integrated into Meta AI, announced July 7, 2026. Muse supports a wide range of creative image tasks using personal photos, including photo restoration, style transformations such as Renaissance portraits and claymation, room restyling, product photography, and surreal scene edits. Users can reference their own images to generate personalized outputs across dozens of artistic styles, positioning Muse as a direct competitor to tools like Adobe Firefly and Google Imagen.

You don’t need a massive cloud AI model for every task. Local AI is getting good enough for everyday work like summaries, rewrites, notes, and brainstorming. It’s more private, works offline, and gives you more control.

Anthropic is expanding Claude Cowork to web and mobile, allowing agentic work sessions to continue across devices and in the background without any device online. Previously desktop-only, Cowork can now handle tasks like drafting memos, building client decks, and processing contracts while users are away. Beta access rolls out over the next several weeks, starting with Max plan users. Over 90% of Cowork usage involves everyday knowledge work rather than coding, with business operations and content creation making up roughly half.

Anthropic has announced an extension of access to Claude Fable 5 for all paid plan subscribers, pushing the availability window through July 12. The update was shared via the official Claude account on X. The brief announcement does not clarify what prompted the extension, whether any pricing changes are involved, or what happens to subscriber access once the July 12 cutoff date arrives and the extended window closes. Subscribers on any paid tier are included in the extension.