Agility Robotics signed a $2.5 billion SPAC merger deal to become the first humanoid robotics company on a US public exchange. Its Digit robot has logged more real deployment hours than any other humanoid in the world.
DeepSeek has set July 24 as the hard cutoff for legacy API model names deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner. After that date, applications using those names stop working with no announced grace period.
Google DeepMind is targeting July 17 for Gemini 3.5 Pro after missing its May I/O deadline. The delay came after the company scrapped the original model and rebuilt from scratch.
The Future of Life Institute graded nine major AI companies on safety. Anthropic earned the top score — a C+. OpenAI and Google DeepMind got C. Meta got D+. xAI, DeepSeek, and Mistral all failed.
Anthropic expanded Claude Cowork to mobile and web for Max subscribers — and released usage data showing software development is only 8.7 percent of sessions. Business process work accounts for over a third.
SpaceXAI dropped Grok 4.5 the day before OpenAI’s public launch — the first model built jointly with Cursor after SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition. Musk calls it Opus-class at 70 percent less cost.
After weeks of restricted government preview, OpenAI opened the gates on its GPT-5.6 family to the general public. Three models, three price points: Sol for hard problems, Terra for business, Luna for everyday tasks.
Baseten raised $1.5 billion at a $13 billion valuation to scale its AI inference platform, which processes over one billion inference calls daily, as the infrastructure layer between models and applications becomes the defining competitive battleground in AI.
Meta is developing plans to sell its excess AI computing capacity to outside companies, following the SpaceX model of turning internal infrastructure into a standalone business and entering direct competition with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Google’s Gemini Spark, an always-on AI agent that runs continuously on your desktop, is now available on Mac, putting it in direct competition with Claude Desktop and Microsoft Copilot for control of the desktop AI layer.