Perplexity has launched Portable Computer, a version of its AI agent platform that runs on a user’s own Nvidia equipped hardware rather than primarily in the cloud. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that the product was developed with Nvidia and is initially available for Linux systems with supported RTX graphics cards and Nvidia’s DGX Spark …
Google will introduce Ask Gemini in Google Chat, adding a central interface for finding information, creating content and managing work without leaving the collaboration app. The company announces in an official Google Workspace Updates blog post that the feature begins rolling out on August 26. Ask Gemini appears in Chat’s Shortcuts menu and works as …
Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre say artificial intelligence will strengthen music production rather than undermine it, framing the technology as another creative tool for artists and producers. Jordyn Holman reports for The New York Times that the longtime business partners reject the idea that AI poses an inherent threat to music. Iovine says gifted people …
Apple has introduced a new Mac Studio built around its M5 Ultra chip, positioning the desktop as a machine for running large AI models locally rather than relying entirely on cloud services. The top configuration supports up to 512GB of unified memory, a key specification for people who want to load larger language models, image …
Alibaba has introduced Wan3.0, a video generation model that can create clips up to 30 seconds long in one run. Ana Maria Constantin reports for The Next Web that the launch follows Alibaba’s roughly $10.2 billion Hong Kong share placement, with all proceeds earmarked for AI investment. Wan3.0 had been available in public beta through …
AI agents in Slack are moving beyond simple chatbots that answer when tagged. Anthropic has expanded its Claude Tag agent so it can read the full context of a channel conversation and decide whether to intervene. NanoClaw, meanwhile, now lets users create teams of separate, persistent agents directly from a Slack message. The developments illustrate …
AI-focused film startups are opening studios in Hollywood and pitching generative tools as a cheaper route to independent production. Companies such as Promise and Obsidian combine human performers with AI-generated sets, effects and characters, challenging the need for large sound stages and traditional studio financing. Robert Booth reports for The Guardian that Promise has launched …
Google DeepMind is testing Backstory, an AI-supported tool designed to help journalists and fact-checkers investigate misleading, manipulated and AI-generated images. Andrew Deck writes for Nieman Lab that the experimental service is available to selected journalists, open-source investigators, librarians and media literacy researchers through Google’s Trusted Testers Program. Users upload an image and ask a basic …
OpenAI has reduced API prices for GPT-5.6 Sol, its frontier model for complex professional tasks. Developers now pay $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens for standard requests. The new rates replace the previous prices of $5 for input and $30 for output. That amounts to a 20% reduction for input …
An anonymous AI model called Ox Alpha has appeared on OpenRouter and OpenCode with unusually high free usage limits, including a one-million-token multimodal context window. Rohail Saleem reports for Wccftech that the service claims it can process up to 100 trillion tokens per day for one week without charge. Ox Alpha is presented as a …