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Gemini 3.7 Flash arrives three weeks after 3.6 at half the price
Google calls it its most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents. The introductory price runs to the end of the year.
Read News · Funding 1 min readLovable raises $400 million, doubling its valuation
Lovable, which lets people build apps with AI, is now valued at $13.3 billion. It hit a $500 million annualised revenue run rate in June.
Read News · Models 1 min readPixel 11 arrives with Tensor G6 and on-device Gemini Nano
Google introduced four phones at Made by Google on August 12, all with the Tensor G6 chip running the latest Gemini Nano on device.
Read News · Infrastructure 1 min readMost power requested for US data centers won't be connected
Wood Mackenzie expects US utilities and grid operators to commit to about 28% of the 1,066 GW requested for data centers.
Read News · Models 1 min readxAI ships Grok 4.6, Grok Bot and Image 2.0 in five days
Grok 4.6 launched on August 12 with a 500,000-token context window. A day earlier Grok Bot, an AI teammate you hand work to, entered beta.
Read News · Search 1 min readThe Gemini app passes 1 billion monthly users
The app generates more than 150 million images a day, and Google's open model Gemma has passed a billion downloads.
Read News · Models 1 min readOpenAI shuts Atlas; agentic browsing moves into ChatGPT
Launched for macOS last October, Atlas closed before its first birthday. Multiple tabs, downloads and account login are moving into ChatGPT and Codex.
Read News · Infrastructure 1 min readFormer Bitcoin miner Firmus raises $2 billion for AI factories
With Nvidia and Blackstone in the round, Firmus's valuation rose from $5.5 billion in April to more than $10.5 billion.
Read News · Models 1 min readGPT-5.6 update brings Luna to free users and an effort slider
OpenAI says the updated GPT-5.6 Sol makes roughly 60% fewer factual errors. Free and Go users get a new default model.
Read News · Models 1 min readMeta Superintelligence Labs ships coding agent Muse Code
The terminal-based agent runs on Muse Spark 1.2. Meta was also reported to be restructuring its AI teams again.
Read News · Search 1 min readAI-driven orders on Shopify tripled in a year
Shopify's revenue grew 34% in the second quarter. Orders from AI channels tripled, and classic search did not decline.
Read News · Infrastructure 1 min readAMD data center revenue doubles; Anthropic signs up for 2 GW
AMD reported record revenue of $11.5 billion in the second quarter. Data center is now 58% of revenue.
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