July 13, 2026
Economists on the AI Economy: A Survey Snapshot
Survey of several hundred economists shows wide disagreement on AI's impact on productivity, growth, and jobs over the next decade.
July 13, 2026
Anthropic Finds What It Calls an Internal Thinking Space in Claude, Without Calling It Consciousness
Anthropic identifies a small internal workspace in Claude called J-Space, where concepts are held before becoming text, but stops short of calling…
July 11, 2026
Bing Webmaster Tools Launches AI Performance Report in Public Preview
Bing Webmaster Tools opens a public preview of its AI Performance report, showing site owners aggregated citations inside Copilot, Bing AI summaries,…
July 11, 2026
Supreme Court Allows Texas App Store Age Verification Law to Take Effect
The Supreme Court refused to block Texas's SB 2420 on July 6, 2026, letting app store age verification proceed while the Fifth…
July 11, 2026
Four States Press $1.4 Trillion Penalty Claim Against Meta Over Child Addiction Allegations
Four US states claim Meta could owe up to $1.4 trillion over child addiction allegations, nearly matching Meta's market value. Meta calls…
July 11, 2026
Rising AI Demand Drives Surge in Data Center Water Consumption
AI workloads push US data center water use toward one trillion liters a year, with cooling systems and peak demand straining local…
July 11, 2026
China Considers Curbing Overseas Access to Its Top AI Models
Beijing is reviewing how its frontier AI models can be accessed abroad, with potential limits on APIs, weights, and licensing for foreign…
July 9, 2026
Meta expands Muse Spark AI model with public API and developer pricing
Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1 public API at $1.25/$4.25 per million tokens, targets Anthropic and OpenAI in AI coding and agentic market.
July 9, 2026
Seedream 5.0 Pro: ByteDance Seed’s New Image Model Built for Professional Design Work
ByteDance Seed has launched Seedream 5.0 Pro, a multimodal image creation model focused on dense infographics, interactive editing, and realistic textures.
July 9, 2026
How Consumers Actually Search for Local Businesses in 2025
84% of consumers searched for a local business online in three months. BrightLocal data shows 73% start on mobile, 52% on Google,…
July 9, 2026
OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Voice in Real Time
OpenAI is rolling out real-time voice mode for ChatGPT to Plus and Team subscribers first, with Enterprise, Edu, and free users to…
July 9, 2026
xAI announces Grok 4.5 with expanded agent capabilities
xAI has released Grok 4.5, its latest LLM, with stronger reasoning, a larger context window, and new agent tools for browsing, files,…
July 9, 2026
Anthropic Removes Hidden Tracking Feature from Claude Code After User Discovery
Anthropic has removed a background telemetry feature from Claude Code after developers found it was enabled by default with no clear opt-out…
July 9, 2026
Claude Cowork Extends to Web and Mobile, With a Persistent Thread for Cross-Device Tasks
Anthropic is bringing Claude Cowork to web and mobile in beta for Max subscribers, with a persistent Dispatch thread for cross-device tasks.
July 9, 2026
Meta Launches Muse Image, Drawing Privacy Concerns Over Tagged Photos
Meta's Muse Image AI generator, internally code-named Mango, lets users tag Instagram accounts and transform real photos into AI images by default,…
