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9 Jul 2026 · 1 min read

Mistral unveils Robostral model for robot navigation with RGB camera

What's new? Robostral Navigate is an 8-billion parameter model for embodied navigation that uses a single RGB camera to guide diverse robots; it was trained in simulation using 400k trajectories, tree-based token masking, and online reinforcement learning to boost navigation;

1 Jul 2026 · 1 min read

Early look at Anthropic's Claude Science app for researchers

What's new? Anthropic's Claude Science is an AI-powered research workbench for life sciences with 60+ tools; it works on macOS, Linux, local machines, remote clusters, and SSH;

1 Jul 2026 · 2 min read

Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash

What's new? Nano Banana 2 Lite is a cheap text-image model via Gemini API on Search and Photos; Gemini Omni Flash is in preview for 10s video generation from text, images and clips;

30 Jun 2026 · 2 min read

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 model on Claude and APIs

What's new? Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5 for developers on multiple plans via API; it plans tasks and uses browsers and terminals with cyber safeguards;

27 Jun 2026 · 1 min read

Microsoft launches MAI-Code-1-Flash on GitHub Copilot

What's new? Microsoft launches MAI-Code-1-Flash for GitHub Copilot Business and Enterprise; model delivers fast low-latency code generation for complex projects;

27 Jun 2026 · 1 min read

ICYMI: Google adds Computer Use to Gemini 3.5 Flash

What's new? Gemini 3.5 flash now integrates computer use to let custom agents act across browser, mobile, and desktop environments; built safeguard systems require explicit user confirmation and halt risky tasks;

26 Jun 2026 · 1 min read

Microsoft adds Copilot finance tools to Excel for M365 users

What's new? Microsoft adds financial skills and data connectors to Copilot in Excel for automated workflows; markdown files enable DCF modeling and reporting;

23 Jun 2026 · 1 min read

Meta launches AI glasses with three new styles from $299

Meta launches AI-powered Meta Glasses in partnership with EssilorLuxottica, featuring smart audio, hands-free capture, and 26 frame options.

23 Jun 2026 · 1 min read

Mistral launches OCR 4 for multilingual document extraction

What's new? OCR 4 extracts document content with boxes, block types and region scores in 170 languages; it is available via API and as a self-hosted container;

22 Jun 2026 · 1 min read

Sakana AI releases Fugu Ultra system to rival top AI labs

What's new? Fugu Ultra is a multi-agent orchestration model available through an OpenAI-compatible API

19 Jun 2026 · 1 min read

Anthropic launches live Artifacts for Claude Code

What's new? anthropic introduced artifacts in claude code to generate live, shareable visual pages; it is in beta for claude team and enterprise using the cli and app;

19 Jun 2026 · 1 min read

Anthropic launches managed connector access with Okta

What's new? Anthropic launched enterprise-managed authorization for MCP connectors with Okta integration; connectors auto-provision for Claude Chat, Claude Code, and Cowork;

18 Jun 2026 · 1 min read

Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork globally for Microsoft 365

What's new? Microsoft announced Copilot Cowork, a cloud-hosted agent system that runs multi tool tasks; it has a usage based billing model and Adobe, Miro and Atlassian plugins;

14 Jun 2026 · 1 min read

Telegram launches smartwatch apps and rich formatting for bots

What's new? Telegram launched smartwatch apps for Apple Watch and Android Wear OS with chat functions; telegram added rich text for bots, ai guardian bots and poll privacy options;

13 Jun 2026 · 3 min read

Anthropic suspends Fable 5 and Mythos 5, Community reactions

What's new? Anthropic suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 following a government export control directive; a bypass method was uncovered during safeguards testing;

12 Jun 2026 · 1 min read

MiniMax M3 launches on NVIDIA platform with Free Endpoint

What's new? MiniMax M3 is a multimodal model on NVIDIA accelerated compute with text, image, video support and sparse attention for long tasks available via NVIDIA API;

29 May 2026 · 1 min read

Anthropic launches dynamic workflows for Claude Code

What's new? Anthropic now offers flexible workflows in Claude Code for multi-step coding projects using parallel agents; it adds workflow recovery and admin controls.

29 May 2026 · 1 min read

Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro are now in General Availability

What's new? Google Cloud launched Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro images for scalable creation; they support 1k, 2k output with a preview for video input;