Google rolled out a new image tool inside Workspace that lets you generate and edit designs by describing what you want in plain language, instead of building them by hand. It's a direct shot at Canva, landing first for business customers and premium Google AI subscribers.
Google's personal agent Gemini Spark can now edit images, curate albums, auto-create shared albums, and turn photos into calendar events. The rollout starts with Gemini AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US.
AI assistant Ollie, which markets itself on not training models with user data, is pushing into personal finance by letting people link their bank accounts. It's a bid to stand out in a market crowded with near-identical chatbots.
AI hospital-operations platform LeanTaaS acquired care-transition startup Aidin to connect discharge-readiness data directly with the workflows that move patients to their next level of care. It's the latest consolidation in a sector already leaning on predictive AI to cut wait times and operating costs.
More restaurants are using AI image generators for their menu photos, but the output tends to look generic and interchangeable across unrelated businesses. It's a real risk for any brand adopting these tools without a plan: losing the differentiation they were chasing in the first place.
Israeli-Dutch startup Wonderful jumped from a $2B to a $5B valuation in six months, driven by demand for its AI customer-service agents across telecom, finance, healthcare and manufacturing. Its playbook of embedding local teams to tailor the tech to language and regulation has been the edge in non-English-speaking markets.
Anthropic updated Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 with a 75% cut to cache-read pricing and a zero-data-retention option for enterprises that want to run the models on their own infrastructure. It's another move in the price war heating up between the major AI labs.
Astra pushes computer- and browser-use further, but relies on a reasoning technique called opaque recurrence that makes it harder to audit the model's chain of thought, a key tool for monitoring its behavior. It's rolling out first to Daybreak cybersecurity customers, with paid plans and API access following within the week.
Meta's Muse Spark model, built for running coding agents, offers up to a 95% token discount to developers who agree to share their prompts and outputs for future training. It's a pricing play aimed at pulling agent builders away from Anthropic and OpenAI.
Security startup AIR came out of stealth with $50 million to build a platform that audits the skills and add-ons AI agents pull in inside enterprise environments. It's addressing a growing gap: teams are shipping agents faster than they can verify what those agents are actually doing.