Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations
Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will bolster Whatnot’s personalization and discovery features as it expands into new product categories.
Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI
Apple Intelligence is headed to China after regulators approved Apple’s AI services through a partnership with Alibaba. The long-rumored deal will bring Alibaba’s Qwen AI models to Apple’s operating systems, marking a major expansion of the company’s generative AI platform into one of its most impor...
Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models
Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
Google Releases LiteRT.js: A JavaScript Binding of LiteRT That Runs .tflite Models in Browsers via WebGPU
Google released LiteRT.js on July 9, 2026. It is a JavaScript binding of LiteRT, Google's on-device inference library. The runtime executes .tflite models directly in the browser through WebAssembly, with XNNPACK on CPU, ML Drift over WebGPU, and experimental WebNN for NPUs. Google reports up to 3x ...
PrismML Releases Bonsai 27B: 1-bit and Ternary Builds of Qwen3.6-27B That Run on Laptops and Phones
PrismML just released Bonsai 27B. It is a low-bit representation of Qwen3.6-27B, not a new pretrain. The architecture is unchanged. Two variants ship under Apache 2.0. Ternary Bonsai 27B uses {−1, 0, +1} weights at a true 1.71 bits per weight. Its ideal size is 5.9GB. 1-bit Bonsai 27B uses binary {−...
OpenCoreDev Releases Domain SDK 0.2.0: One TypeScript API to Add, Verify, and Remove Customer Domains Across Five Platforms
OpenCoreDev has published Domain SDK 0.2.0, a TypeScript client for the custom domain lifecycle. It covers Vercel, Cloudflare for SaaS, Railway, Render, and Netlify behind one API. Status is modeled as an eight-value union, with separate verification and certificate fields.
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Apple opens its new Siri AI to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta
If you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving iPhone owners early access to its AI-powered assistant and other new features before the software’s official launch this fall.
DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is proposing an AI "standards body" modeled after FINRA, to test frontier models and develop best practices for their release.
Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer
Instagram head Adam Mosseri believes companies will eventually need to manage AI token spending the same way they manage payroll or other operating expenses, predicting that engineers could soon face limits on how much they spend using AI tools.
New York State halts construction of all new data centers
New York has become the first state to temporarily halt approval of large data centers, as Gov. Kathy Hochul argues the AI-driven building boom shouldn’t come at the expense of higher electricity costs, water supplies, or local control.
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still matter if most production AI ends up running on open models?
Spotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistant
Spotify is rolling out a new AI-powered conversational feature that lets Premium subscribers chat with the app to discover music, podcasts, and audiobooks, and more.
Meet Blume: An Open-Source, Zero-Config Documentation Framework That Ships AI-Ready Docs From a Markdown Folder
Developer Hayden Bleasel has released Blume, an open-source, MIT-licensed documentation framework. It reads a folder of Markdown or MDX and generates a hidden Astro project, shipping static, AI-ready docs with local search, 30+ MDX components, llms.txt, and a built-in MCP server.
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Mistral AI Releases Robostral Navigate: An 8B Model Enabling Robots to Navigate Complex Environments Using a Single RGB Camera
Mistral AI introduced Robostral Navigate, an 8B embodied navigation model. It moves robots from a plain-language instruction using only a single RGB camera, with no LiDAR or depth sensors. The model reaches 76.6% success on R2R-CE validation unseen through a pointing method, prefix-caching training,...