FTC Proposes Policy That Could Preempt State AI Bias Laws
The FTC wants public comment on a policy statement warning that AI firms which secretly alter outputs to satisfy state bias rules could be committing deception under federal law.
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Anthropic Launches Claude Reflect Usage Dashboard
Claude's new Reflect dashboard shows users a breakdown of their chat habits and task types, with quiet-hours and break reminders — though critics say it doubles as a retention tool.
Read more →AI Chip Maker SambaNova Raises $1B, Hits $11B Valuation
SambaNova closed the first tranche of a $1 billion Series F round led by General Atlantic, and said JPMorganChase will deploy its chips for on-premises AI inference.
Read more →OpenAI Retracts Endorsement of SWE-Bench Pro Coding Benchmark
An internal audit found that roughly a third of SWE-Bench Pro's coding tasks are flawed, prompting OpenAI to withdraw its recommendation that developers rely on the benchmark.
Read more →Anthropic Brings Claude Cowork to Mobile and Web
Anthropic has expanded its Claude Cowork task-delegation tool from desktop-only to iOS, Android, and web, letting background tasks run and pause for human approval on any device.
Read more →Meta Launches Muse Spark 1.1 to Compete on AI Coding
Meta Superintelligence Labs opened a public preview of Muse Spark 1.1, a paid agentic coding model with a 1-million-token context window, taking on OpenAI and Anthropic.
Read more →OpenAI Makes GPT-5.6 Public, Ending Government-Gated Preview
OpenAI opened its GPT-5.6 model family — Sol, Terra and Luna — to all ChatGPT, API and Codex users on July 9, after weeks of government-mandated review limited access to select partners.
Read more →Meta Launches Muse Image AI Model, Draws Privacy Backlash
Meta's new AI image generator, built by Meta Superintelligence Labs, is now live across its apps — but talent agency CAA says its opt-out design misuses people's likenesses without consent.
Read more →Camera-Free Smart Glasses Maker Even Realities Hits $1B Valuation
Shenzhen startup Even Realities raised $150 million led by Tencent and Meituan, valuing the camera-free smart glasses maker at $1 billion.
Read more →EU Unveils AI Cybersecurity Action Plan
The European Commission presented an action plan on July 7 to manage the risks and harness the opportunities of advanced AI models for cybersecurity, without proposing new binding rules.
Read more →AI 'Actress' Tilly Norwood Cast in Her First Feature Film
Particle6 says its AI-generated performer Tilly Norwood will star in the feature film Misaligned, a project SAG-AFTRA has already condemned as a threat to human actors.
Read more →Future of Life Institute: No AI Firm Scores Above a C+
The Future of Life Institute's latest AI Safety Index gave Anthropic the top grade among nine major AI developers — a C+ — while three companies failed outright.
Read more →OpenAI Launches GPT-Live, a Full-Duplex Voice Upgrade for ChatGPT
OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-Live, new voice models that can listen and speak at once, replacing Advanced Voice Mode for all ChatGPT users starting July 8.
Read more →Grok 4.5 Launches Cheaper Than Opus, With Mixed Benchmarks
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, its first model trained on Cursor data, priced well below Anthropic's Opus 4.8 — though its own self-reported benchmarks show mixed results against it.
Read more →Mistral AI Unveils Robostral Navigate, an 8B Robot Navigation Model
Mistral AI released Robostral Navigate, an 8-billion-parameter model that lets robots navigate using only a single camera, matching or beating systems that rely on LiDAR or depth sensors.
Read more →Alberta Uses Claude Code to Scan 466M Lines of Government Code
Canada's Alberta government used Anthropic's Claude Code to scan 466 million lines of code for vulnerabilities in 20 hours, a task it says would have taken 6.5 years manually.
Read more →AI Legal Startup Norm Raises $120M, Hits $1.2B Valuation
Norm Ai raised $120 million in a Series C round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the AI-native law firm at $1.2 billion.
Read more →Chinese AI Models Capture Up to 46% of US Firms' Tokens
OpenRouter data shows Chinese AI models now handle over 30% of tokens run by US firms every week since February, peaking at 46%, as companies chase costs up to 90% lower than Anthropic or OpenAI.
Read more →OpenAI Releases GPT-Realtime-2.1 With 25% Lower Voice Latency
OpenAI has released GPT-Realtime-2.1 and a smaller mini version for its Realtime API, cutting voice-agent response latency by at least 25% through improved caching.
Read more →Illinois Becomes First US State to Mandate AI Safety Audits
Governor JB Pritzker signed a law requiring the largest AI developers to undergo annual independent safety audits, the first such mandate in the US.
Read more →Anthropic's J-Lens Reveals a Hidden Workspace Inside Claude
A new Anthropic interpretability tool called the Jacobian lens surfaces concepts Claude is silently processing but never writes down, including signs it recognizes when it's being tested.
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