Apple’s iOS 27 developer beta 3 (July 6, 2026) adds Siri “Pace” and “Expressivity” sliders to adjust how quickly it speaks and how much human-like emotion its voice conveys; they were first announced at WWDC 26 in June. The generative-AI Siri in iOS 27 is integrated for voice, Dynamic Island swipes, typing, and a stand-alone Siri app.
Google’s June 2026 privacy update automatically opts users into letting uploaded media (images, audio, video, files) be stored and used to train AI after an email notice. It now covers services like Maps, Shopping, Flights, Hotels, Translate and News, and moves the opt-out from Web & App Activity to a new Search Services History setting.
Reddit says its 2026 LLM-powered anti-spam tools block 23M spam views a day and flag ~25,000 new spam posts and comments daily. It cut user exposure to spam by 20% from Jan–Mar 2026 vs. the prior three months; YouTube, Meta and Instagram require disclosure, and TikTok is testing feed controls for AI content.
Station F’s F/ai is set to add a second cohort in September 2026 after the first batch raised $34M pre-seed. Launched in Jan 2026, it targets €1M (~$1.14M) revenue in six months to speed EU commercialization, Roxanne Varza said.
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform on July 30, 2026, signaling a sharp decline for a service that has operated for more than two decades.
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AI image-generation startup Midjourney is pushing to compel Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to disclose details of their internal AI usage as part of ongoing copyright litigation, according to a…
At “The Briefing: AI for Science” in July 2026, Anthropic rolled out Claude Science, an “AI workbench” that unifies fragmented tools and datasets and generates figures/visuals. Eric Kauderer-Abrams said Anthropic also plans to develop drugs for “neglected” diseases, but the company hasn’t shared target priorities, partnerships, or what it will do after candidate hits.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees at an internal town hall on Thursday, July 3, 2026, that the company’s AI agent development had not “accelerated in the way” executives had previously…
Meta has launched a new app called Pocket, which lets users generate and share small interactive games and apps using text-based AI prompts. The app first appeared on the App Store and Google Play on…
TV Time ends July 15, 2026, as Whip Media says the free service was too costly and demand for a paid app wasn’t enough. It reported 26M+ lifetime installs and ~29,000 downloads in 30 days, but after Blue Torch Capital’s early-2025 buyout it pivoted to AI and Helix automation.
Microsoft announced a new operating business on Thursday, July 3, 2026, called Microsoft Frontier, focused on delivering enterprise AI deployments using the company’s existing AI tools. The venture…
Indian serial entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia has committed $30 million of his own capital to launch Neo, an AI-native enterprise software platform designed to compete with Microsoft Office and Google…
