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Wednesday 29 July

1 development
16:02
Google DeepMindLaunch

Google launches Lyria 3.5 in Flow Music

Google launched Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music. The update brings advances in musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control.

1 official1 coverage

Tuesday 28 July

2 developments
13:21
Google DeepMindLaunch

Google launches Gemini Robotics 2 for whole body robot control

Google DeepMind announced Gemini Robotics 2, a model that brings whole body intelligence to robots. The announcement was published on deepmind.google.

1 official2 coverage1 community
10:45
MiniMaxLaunch

MiniMax publishes MiniMax-H3 video model on Hugging Face

MiniMax released MiniMax-H3 on Hugging Face, a model supporting text-to-video, image-to-video, image-text-to-video and video-to-video generation. The repository lists 3,664,216 downloads and 5,623 likes.

1 official1 coverage1 community

Monday 27 July

3 developments
18:50
MicrosoftLaunch

Microsoft launches MAI-Cyber-1-Flash security model

Microsoft introduced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact security model that scores 96 percent on the CyberGym benchmark within its MDASH multi-agent system. Microsoft says costs drop about 50 percent versus frontier models since only tough cases go to GPT-5.4.

2 coverage
14:56
MicrosoftLaunch

Microsoft launches Fantasy Premier League Companion tool

Microsoft released a Fantasy Premier League Companion tool for managers. The post announcing it appeared on Microsoft's Source blog.

1 official
00:00
CohereLaunch

Cohere launches North Automations for workflow orchestration

Cohere introduced North Automations, a feature for intelligent workflow orchestration. The announcement was published on Cohere's official site.

1 official

Saturday 25 July

1 development
09:31
AnthropicLaunch

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, tops Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 61 points, ahead of Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. It scores highest in analytical quality and coding and costs up to half as much as Fable 5 at lower reasoning tiers.

5 coverage1 community
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