Meta starts charging for AI with Muse Spark 1.1 and a new developer API
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 on July 9, a multimodal agentic model with a million-token context window — and, for the first time, a paid API tier for business access to its models.
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, a website builder, and a unified desktop app
A major July 9 update introduced ChatGPT Work for complex multi-step tasks, put ChatGPT Sites into public beta for building websites, and rolled chat, work, and coding into one desktop app.
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Claude Sonnet 5 brings near-flagship AI agents down to a mid-tier price
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, a mid-priced model that plans, uses tools, and completes multi-step work at a level that previously required its most expensive models.
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Notion 3.6 brings outside AI agents into your team workspace
Notion's July release lets you assign tasks to external agents like Claude and Cursor from a shared board, adds speaker-aware meeting notes, and lets agents build interactive HTML right inside pages.
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AWS commits $1 billion to embed AI engineers inside customer companies
Amazon Web Services is putting $1 billion into a new forward-deployed engineering organization that places small teams of AI specialists directly inside client businesses, joining a growing industry race.
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GitHub Copilot gets its own desktop app on Mac, Windows, and Linux
The GitHub Copilot app is now generally available, giving developers a dedicated desktop home for assigning and supervising AI coding agents outside the editor.
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Hugging Face's new benchmark judges how AI agents work, not just whether they finish
A new evaluation tool from Hugging Face scores AI agents on the path they take through a task, catching failure modes like looping and tool misuse that standard leaderboards miss.
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