New AI-powered products and feature announcements.
Apple confirms iOS 27.3 brings AI features to China in December, using Alibaba Qwen to power Siri and Writing Tools for the first time in the market.
DeepSeek releases open-source Super-Agent, a coding AI that monitors developer chats and acts unprompted, directly challenging Anthropic's Claude Code.
AGIBOT launches Worken with GO-3 Preview and a 40-kilogram G2 Max robot. The metric shifts humanoid competition from shipments to useful work.
SpaceXSI launches a Grok partner network with more than 130 early-access companies. Enterprise AI now depends on integrations and delivery.
Tesla Optimus starts high-volume production in Fremont with its first production-quality robots. The move shifts scrutiny to uptime and cost.
BYD published a humanoid robot design patent, signaling entry into a market that already includes Unitree, AgiBot, and Tesla Optimus at commercial scale.
Anthropic launches Claude for Financial Advisors with Schwab exclusive and BlackRock tie-ins, targeting 330,000 US advisors at $70-$120 per user.
UBTECH begins shipping its UWORLD U1 on Sept. 16 at $16,500, the first mass-market humanoid robot to reach consumers with 13,361 pre-orders.
Zoox begins paid rides in Las Vegas today without a steering wheel, the first US approval for a human-control-free commercial robotaxi.
Google Gemini rolls out to K-12 students starting today, putting AI-powered study tools in front of 70 million learners for the first time.
Birdfury opens a claim free mission board where any human or AI agent submits work over MCP and the client rewards the winners in USDC on Base.
Meta Superintelligence Labs launches Muse Code, a terminal AI coding agent at $1.25 per million tokens, to challenge Claude Code and Codex.
BYD's Xiao Di humanoid stands 1.61 meters tall, translates six languages in real time, and will staff every BYD Di Space showroom worldwide.
Boston Dynamics invests $100M in Waltham expansion with 1,250 new jobs by 2033, plans third humanoid robot platform as competition intensifies.
State Grid orders 500 humanoid robots for $1B as Chinese manufacturers expand capacity while Western makers remain in small-scale pilot phase.
Faraday Future debuts its EAI robotics education platform and commercial hardware on June 16, targeting schools and consumers with ecosystem lock-in
ASUS GB300 ExpertCenter Pro runs 1-trillion-parameter models on a desktop, bringing 20 PFLOPS to enterprise without renting cloud infrastructure.
Sakana AI launches Marlin, an 8-hour autonomous research agent that compresses weeks of C-suite strategy analysis into a single unattended session.
Meta's AI Mode uses public Facebook posts to answer search queries, putting 3.3 billion users' content to work in the AI platform race.
Anthropic launched Claude Design after inviting Figma and Canva to co-announce it, then dropped them, in a move that challenges both companies directly.
Huawei HarmonyOS 7 launches Agent Framework 2.0 with 90 percent task completion and 2,000 integrated AI agents in a major push for ecosystem independence.
Kimi Work by Moonshot AI brings 300 parallel sub-agents to macOS and Windows, running K2.6 to automate complex research and office tasks without cloud.
Decart's Oasis 3 generates photorealistic multi-camera driving environments via API at $0.02 per second, backed by $300M from Nvidia and Toyota.
Mastercard's AP4M gives AI agents their own blockchain credentials and payment rails, letting machines spend across Stripe, Coinbase and 29 more platforms.
OpenAI expanded Codex to 5 million weekly users with Sites hosting and 62 enterprise app plugins, turning the coding tool into a white-collar AI platform.
Anthropic's Claude Platform now runs agents on cron schedules with vault-stored credentials, making autonomous AI workers available to any enterprise team.
Apple's Xcode 27 ships Neural Engine code AI with zero data egress and built-in Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT, making Cursor optional for iOS.
OpenAI's Deployment Company starts with 4B to acquire AI firms and close the gap between what frontier models can do and enterprise adoption.
Google Dreambeans uses Gmail, Calendar, Photos, and YouTube data to generate 10 to 14 personalized AI stories daily. Privacy is the unavoidable question.
Google NotebookLM upgrades to Gemini 3.5 with 100-plus skills, 12 output formats, and 78.2% better web research accuracy for Ultra users.
Google AI Plus drops from $7.99 to $4.99 monthly and doubles cloud storage to 400GB, putting ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro under immediate pricing pressure.
Anthropic backs its Claude Partner Network with $100M as Deloitte, Cognizant, and KPMG deploy Claude to over 1 million consultants globally.
xAI's Grok 4.3 adds Skills, letting users save custom expertise as reusable packs that the AI applies automatically across every future session.
Apple WWDC 2026 unveils a three-model Siri built on Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT as Tim Cook delivers his final keynote before John Ternus takes over.
OpenAI overhauls ChatGPT into a coding and AI agent hub for 900 million weekly users, targeting high-margin enterprise revenue before its IPO.
Google rebuilds its Search box for the first time in 25 years and launches Universal Cart, which shops across Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail.
Meta is building an AI pendant from Limitless plus a Wearables for Work subscription, aiming to sell 10 million AI wearables by late 2026.
Unitree listed its G1 humanoid on Amazon US at $17,990, a steep markup over the $13,500 direct price, as China pushes humanoids toward consumers.
Tencent builds a native WeChat AI agent for 1.4 billion users, lifting its stock 10 percent, as the super-app turns mini programs into agent actions.
Google Gemini Omni Flash launches free AI video generation across YouTube Shorts, Flow, and the Gemini app, with SynthID watermarks on every clip.
Amazon's next-gen Proteus warehouse robot now takes plain-English commands, part of a $11.6B European push as it hires 25,000 and automates fulfillment.
Anthropic gave Claude Managed Agents self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels, letting banks run AI agents inside their own AWS VPC off the public internet.
Amazon MGM Studios and AWS launched the GenAI Creators' Fund and greenlit three AI animated series for Prime Video, built on the new Project Nara platform.
OpenAI launched a self-serve ChatGPT Ads Manager with CPC bidding and no minimum spend, chasing $2.5 billion in ad sales in 2026 and $100 billion by 2030.
Morph launched the first shape shifting soft robotics cells platform for physical AI, led by Digital Surgery founder Jean Nehme and backed by 8VC.
Google Pics, a Workspace AI design app on Nano Banana 2, undercuts Canva with click-to-edit graphics for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers soon.
Amazon launches a free 24/7 Health AI agent for all US customers and gives 200 million Prime members five free One Medical video visits a year.
OpenAI's Dreaming memory rebuilds ChatGPT recall, auto-updating stale facts and reaching free users after a 5x compute cut. Why memory is the real AI moat.
Meta launched an AI Creator Assistant on Facebook that explains why posts work, rolling out across the US, Canada, and India first.
Nvidia RTX Spark packs 20 Arm cores, a Blackwell GPU and 128GB unified memory into Windows PCs, hitting 1 petaflop of local AI agent power this fall.