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YouTube has added AI-powered comment moderation tools to YouTube Studio, available on desktop for all creators globally. The update introduces a new Search filter that finds comments based on broader meaning or topic rather than exact keywords. Creators can type phrases like "comments about my appearance" or "questions about my gear" to group related comments, or choose from suggested topics like "Excitement and enthusiasm" or "Negative feedback." A "Find similar comments" option also lets creators locate comments with similar meaning. The tools do not auto-remove anything.

Google Finance is exiting beta with major upgrades, including a new dedicated Android app. Users can track portfolios via a single dashboard showing performance and asset allocation, with setup via screenshots, CSV or PDF uploads, or plain-text descriptions. A new market intel feature lets users schedule custom AI-generated briefings, such as daily pre-market cryptocurrency updates. The Android app offers real-time data, a live news feed, an AI research tool, and AI-powered key moments explaining stock moves. An iOS app is planned for later in 2026.

Runway has launched Agent 2.0, a new tool built into its platform that lets users go from a simple prompt to fully realized marketing briefs and campaign assets. The system can also analyze performance data to help improve creative output and scale it across platforms, formats, and markets. Agent 2.0 represents Runway's push into AI-powered marketing workflows, streamlining the process from ideation to multi-platform campaign execution.

Mark Cuban argues that opposition to AI data centers is really a proxy for broader anger at AI's concentration of wealth and potential job displacement. He urges OpenAI and other major LLM companies to launch community tours focused not on explaining AI's benefits, but on directly helping towns facing job losses. Cuban also calls on AI leaders to meet with artists and creative unions in cities like LA and NYC, warning that buying politicians and ignoring everyday workers will ultimately backfire and limit the capacity needed to run their businesses.

Microsoft has updated Copilot in Excel with new finance-focused features including skills, data connectors, and traceability tools. Skills let teams define repeatable workflows like DCF models or variance analyses using a SKILL.md file saved to OneDrive. New financial data connectors include CB Insights, Daloopa, FactSet, Morningstar, PitchBook, and S&P Global, joining existing LSEG and Moody's integrations. A Plan with Copilot feature outlines intended changes before execution, and edits are now attributed to Copilot in the Show Changes pane for full auditability.

Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have developed a flexible AI skin patch that processes health data directly on the body in milliseconds, without relying on external servers. Built with organic electrochemical transistors printed onto flexible materials using UV-hardened polymer gel, the device can pack up to 10,000 transistors per square centimeter. In tests, it ran algorithms to map heart rhythms and detect ventricular fibrillation fast enough for real-time intervention, a task impossible with cloud-dependent wearables. The study was published in Nature Electronics.

A federal class action lawsuit filed in California alleges that Kalibrate, a Manchester-based fuel-pricing software platform operating in over 70 countries, enabled gas station chains including Marathon and Circle K to illegally coordinate prices in violation of state antitrust law. Plaintiffs claim the AI software discourages undercutting rivals and includes a feature allowing stations across an area to simultaneously raise prices. The case follows California Governor Gavin Newsom signing legislation affirming antitrust rules apply to pricing algorithms. Kalibrate has not commented.

At its annual Config 2026 conference, Figma announced several AI-powered design and coding tools. New features include AI-generated motion graphics, letting users create animations and transitions by describing them in a chatbot interface, and shader effects powered by WebGPU that enable dither, pixelate, and blur treatments. Code layers allow developers to work directly with code on the Figma Design canvas, clone repositories, and sync changes back. Figma Weave integration brings over 20 AI workflow tools to the canvas.

Google is rolling out a "Select from screen" feature in Chrome 149 that lets users highlight text or images on a webpage and send them directly to Gemini for contextual assistance. Accessed via the "+" menu in Gemini's Chrome panel, the tool works like a built-in screenshot selector. Separately, Google also launched computer use capabilities through Gemini 3.5 Flash, enabling AI agents to act across browsers, mobile apps, and desktop environments for multi-step tasks like software testing and enterprise workflows.

Google has integrated computer use as a built-in tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash, previously only available as a standalone Gemini 2.5 model. Developers can now build agents that see, reason, and take action across browser, mobile, and desktop environments, enabling enterprise automation tasks like continuous software testing. Safety features include adversarial training and optional enterprise safeguards requiring user confirmation for sensitive actions. Access is available via the Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

Perplexity has launched Computer for Counsel, an AI tool for legal professionals that connects research databases, document repositories, contract tools, and matter-management systems to Perplexity Computer. Powered by 20+ frontier AI models, it handles research, document gathering, and contract triage so lawyers can focus on core legal work. Premium integrations include Midpage for case law, Deel for employment compliance, and LegalZoom for contract templates. It works within Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace and is available to Enterprise and Max subscribers.

OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI's first custom AI inference chip, designed specifically for LLM workloads. Developed in just nine months with partners Broadcom and Celestica, the chip delivers performance per watt substantially better than current state-of-the-art accelerators. Early testing includes running GPT-5.Codex-Spark workloads at production frequency. Jalapeño will be deployed at gigawatt scale with data center partners by end of 2026, expanding OpenAI's full-stack strategy from models and products down to custom silicon.

ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5 at its Volcano Engine FORCE conference, a generative video model capable of producing native single clips up to 30 seconds without post-stitching. The model accepts up to 50 full-modal reference assets including images, audio, and video in a single request, and supports style-preserving post-generation editing. ByteDance also previewed Doubao 2.1 Pro, Seedream 5.0 Pro, and Seed-Audio 1.0 at the event, with broader availability expected in early July.

Meta has partnered with EssilorLuxottica to launch Meta Glasses, AI-powered smart glasses starting at $299. Available in 26 styles across three frames — Meta Adventurer, Meta Fury, and a Kylie Jenner collaboration — the glasses feature open-ear speakers, hands-free photo and video capture, over 8 hours of battery life, and a hour charging case. They are the first Meta AI glasses powered by MuseSpark from Meta Superintelligence Labs at launch, and are sold at Best Buy, Amazon, and LensCrafters.

NVIDIA launched the BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, giving AI agents domain-specific tools for life sciences workflows spanning biology, chemistry, genomics, and drug discovery. The toolkit includes BioNeMo, Nemotron, NemoClaw, OpenShell, and NIM microservices, enabling agents to perform protein structure prediction, molecular docking, generative chemistry, and genomic analysis. Over 50 companies are adopting it, including Lilly, Schrödinger, Dassault Systèmes, and Databricks, while Anthropic and OpenAI are integrating it. A collaboration with UW's Institute for Protein Design achieved 2x faster performance on the RosettaFold3 model.

Krea has released open weights for two new image models: Krea 2 Raw and Krea 2 Turbo. Krea 2 Raw is an undistilled model taken from mid-training, designed specifically to be fine-tuned by developers and researchers who want to build on top of it. Krea 2 Turbo is a fast, distilled version offering wide aesthetic diversity. The open weight release makes both models freely accessible for external customization and experimentation beyond Krea's own platform.

Mistral has launched OCR 4, an enterprise document AI model supporting 170 languages across 10 language groups. The model returns bounding boxes, typed-block classification, and inline confidence scores alongside extracted text, making it suitable for RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and enterprise search. It runs in a single container for self-hosted deployments. OCR 4 scored 85.20 on OlmOCRBench and achieved a 72% average win rate in human preference evaluations. Pricing is $4 per 1,000 pages via API, with a 50% batch discount.

Anthropic has expanded Claude Desktop to deliver the full enterprise experience on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry. Previously limited to Claude Cowork and Claude Code, the app now includes chat alongside those surfaces. IT teams can deploy organization-wide using SSO via IAM Identity Center, Microsoft Entra ID, or Okta, push MDM policy templates through Intune, GPO, or Jamf, and use an offline installer for air-gapped environments. Inference stays within the customer's cloud, conversation history is stored locally, and an M365 connector can run entirely on-device.

OpenAI launched Patch the Planet, a Daybreak initiative built with Trail of Bits, HackerOne, and Calif to help open-source maintainers fix security vulnerabilities. Using GPT-5.Cyber and Codex Security, the program pairs AI-assisted vulnerability discovery with expert human review before findings reach maintainers. Initial participants include cURL, Python, Go, and Sigstore. Early results include hundreds of identified issues, dozens of merged patches, five Chrome V8 exploits, ten-plus Safari vulnerabilities, and a year-old OpenBSD kernel use-after-free bug enabling privilege escalation.

OpenAI has expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative with tools focused on automating vulnerability patching at scale. The full GPT-5.Cyber model is now available to trusted defenders, scoring 85.6% on CyberGym versus 81.8% for GPT-5.5. The updated Codex Security plugin has scanned 30 million commits across 30,000 codebases, resolving over 500,000 findings. OpenAI also launched the Daybreak Cyber Partner Program with firms including Cisco and CrowdStrike, plus the Patch the Planet initiative with Trail of Bits and HackerOne covering open-source projects like cURL and Python.

Samsung Electronics is deploying ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all employees in Korea and all Device eXperience division employees worldwide, marking one of OpenAI's largest enterprise launches ever. The tools will support software development, marketing, product development, and manufacturing. Codex, originally a coding tool, is increasingly used for non-technical tasks like building internal tools and automating workflows. OpenAI Korea GM Harrison Kim called it historic, noting Samsung is treating AI as a core platform rather than a limited-use tool.

Getty Images has announced a multi-year display partnership with OpenAI, allowing Getty's licensed content libraries to appear within ChatGPT's search and discovery experiences. The agreement covers display use of Getty Images' content to enhance visual responses in ChatGPT. CEO Craig Peters said high-quality licensed visuals make AI-powered search more useful and trustworthy. The deal mirrors a similar multi-year image partnership Getty struck with Perplexity in October 2025, signaling a broader strategy to license content to AI platforms.

The Atlantic has expanded its AI Watchdog project with a new music search tool, compiled by researcher Alex Reisner, allowing artists to check whether their recordings appear in four large datasets used in AI music development. The datasets include tracks from major artists like Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, and Nirvana, with one collection containing 12 million tracks representing 91 years of listening. The tool does not confirm direct use in AI training but highlights the scale of music accessible to AI developers, some of which is not freely licensed.