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Revolut rolled out an AI‑driven budgeting assistant on July 5, 2026, that analyses spending patterns and offers real‑time savings suggestions. The feature is built on Revolut’s proprietary machine‑learning engine and is available to all UK users.
OpenAI unveiled the GPT‑5.6 models, offering three tiers—Sol, Terra, and Luna—alongside a new ultra setting that boosts performance for demanding AI tasks.
SpaceXAI announced Grok 4.5, its newest agentic‑coding model that outperforms competitors on engineering benchmarks and is priced aggressively for enterprise use.
SpaceXAI unveiled Grok 4.5, a new mixture‑of‑experts LLM trained on trillions of real‑world coding tokens. It targets complex software‑engineering, autonomous‑agent workflows and broader enterprise knowledge tasks, priced at $2 / M input and $6 / M output tokens.
SpaceXAI launched its new Grok 4.5 model, touted as a workhorse for coding, research, and routine knowledge work, claiming twice the token efficiency of competitors.
Microsoft is shifting from OpenAI and Anthropic models to its own in‑house AI, aiming to reduce costs across Office 365 applications.
Anthropic unveiled Claude Sonnet 5, its latest agentic AI model, offering enhanced autonomous task execution and multi‑step reasoning while cutting costs for developers and enterprises.
Tesla announced a $200‑per‑week limit on employee AI token spend, excluding its own xAI products, to control rising costs and steer usage toward in‑house models.
The automaker’s new electric pickup has struggled to attract buyers, raising questions about market readiness and brand positioning.
Amazon announced the general availability of its new C9g and C9gd compute‑optimized EC2 instances, delivering up to 25% higher performance per vCPU and up to 3× higher packet‑processing throughput thanks to the Graviton5 chip.
NVIDIA’s new two‑tower diffusion language model delivers 2.42× faster text generation than traditional autoregressive models while retaining 98.7% of baseline quality, cutting inference costs dramatically.
Together AI raised $800 million in a Series C round to fund its open‑source AI platform, aiming to make large‑scale model training and inference cheaper and more accessible.
Z.ai’s GLM‑5.2, launched last month, is closing the performance gap with Western AI leaders while offering a fraction of the cost, sparking a “mini DeepSeek moment” in Silicon Valley.
Google unveiled Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash, enabling near‑real‑time image generation and conversational video editing at low cost.
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite, a new in‑house image generator that is faster and cheaper than previous versions, enabling rapid high‑volume image workflows for creators and businesses.
The AI neocloud provider has secured a $800 million Series C, boosting its valuation to $8.3 billion as companies increasingly turn to open‑source models and GPU‑cluster rentals.
Anthropic’s new Sonnet 5 model offers improved agentic performance, better reasoning, and lower costs, becoming the default for free and pro plans.
OpenAI announced the Jalapeño chip, a purpose‑built inference processor that promises higher performance‑per‑watt than existing GPUs.
OpenAI and Broadcom announced a custom AI chip that could cut inference costs by about 50%, boosting the speed of large language models.
Probook’s AI platform booked more than 2,500 jobs in a month without human intervention for one customer, showing the growing role of AI in field‑service work.
SpaceX is preparing to fly its first Starfall prototype on June 23, a disk‑shaped reentry capsule that could upend the economics of orbital manufacturing.
At its Build 2026 conference, Microsoft launched MAI-Code-1-Flash and MAI-Thinking-1, proprietary models aimed at reducing costs and dependence on OpenAI’s APIs.
Amazon Web Services secures a $2.56 billion contract to provide commercial cloud services for the Department of Homeland Security, expanding federal cloud infrastructure.
Meta partnered with Amazon Web Services to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores, powering its agentic AI systems and emphasizing purpose‑built silicon for AI workloads.