Binance launched Binance Intelligence, an AI suite with Binance AI, AI Pro and Agent OS, which passed 280,000 daily calls
Nano Banana 2.1 appeared live on Google Flow, but output looked similar to Nano Banana Pro
Google was working on Superprojects for Gemini, replacing Gemini Notebook projects, with files and chats accessible across Google products
GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol were expected to be 50% faster
OpenAI said it will roll out text watermarking for ChatGPT and Codex in the EU in the coming weeks, staying off by default in the API
ContextQA launched Ship, an AI quality engineer that reproduces bugs from Slack or Linear reports, investigates causes, and hands findings to engineers, Claude or Codex
Gemini Notebook got new usage limits that refresh every 5 hours, a flexible Notebook-wide limit, and a background queue for generations when out of quota
Figure was reportedly planning to release Hark, a proactive AI assistant, this week, with Pro to Pro⁴ plans on web, iOS and iPad, waitlist at launch
Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveiled Beam, its first open-weight model, rivaling GLM-5.2 on reasoning with far less inference compute, weights due this month
Meta and Microsoft pushed employees off Anthropic’s Claude toward their own AI tools as costs climbed
Higgsfield launched Ads Studio, a ROAS-driven static ad generator, free in its ChatGPT extension
Cognition added Dreaming to Devin, building a memory graph across sessions and cleaning stale records overnight, plus an open standard called Agent Memory Repo
Ghost launched Core, a personal AI computer
Cursor SDK agents could now be steered mid-run with run[.]steer
ElevenLabs Creative launched The Search, a $100,000 competition for the catchiest ad, with $50,000 for first place and 11 winners
