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Gemini Spark, Google's AI agent, now integrates directly with Chrome to automate complex web tasks. With user permission, Spark can use logged-in accounts and saved passwords to handle errands like scheduling apartment viewings or researching and starting flight bookings. Security protections guard against prompt injection, and sensitive actions like payments are handed back to the user. The Chrome auto browse feature is initially U.S.-only, while Spark access is expanding to Google AI Pro subscribers in over 160 additional countries.

LinkedIn is introducing a report button that lets users flag posts as 'Seems like AI slop,' part of a broader effort to reduce AI-generated content on the platform. Chief product officer Hari Srinivasan called AI slop a top priority. LinkedIn is also deploying new classifiers to detect low-quality AI content in suggested feeds. The company is removing its AI post-enhancement feature, replacing it with a proofreading tool that preserves user voice. AI detector Pangram found 41 percent of longform LinkedIn posts were fully AI-generated.

OpenAI is cutting prices for two GPT-5.6 models starting July 30, 2026. GPT-5.6 Luna, its fastest and most affordable model, drops 80% to $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens. GPT-5.6 Terra, the balanced everyday model, falls 20% to $2 per million input and $12 per million output tokens. OpenAI also introduced Fast mode for GPT-5.6 Sol in the API, delivering up to 2.5 times faster speeds than standard processing at twice the price.

Google DeepMind has launched Gemini Robotics ER 2, its most capable embodied reasoning model for robotics, featuring multi-robot collaboration, improved video understanding, and real-time task orchestration. The model acts as a high-level brain, handing off motor execution to lower-level vision-language-action models while integrating with the Gemini Live API for low-latency streaming. It achieves 91.3% accuracy on moment-finding tasks and 57.4% on progress classification. Gemini Robotics ER 2 is available via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio.

Ideogram has launched P-Image-Ideogram, a family of Pareto-optimal image generation models co-developed with Pruna AI, starting at $0.003 per image. The models offer four quality modes — Very Low, Low, Medium, and High — with native 1K and 2K resolution, latency between 3 and 8 seconds, and support for JSON prompting and layout control. On DesignArena's blind leaderboard, the models lead on quality-versus-cost and quality-versus-speed trade-offs. Available now via API and partners including ComfyUI, Replicate, Cloudflare, and Leonardo AI.

OpenAI found that enabling two API settings—retained reasoning and compaction—tripled GPT-5.6 Sol's scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, raising its score from 13.3% to 38.3% while cutting output tokens by 6x. The official harness discarded private reasoning after each action and used rolling truncation, forcing the model to reinterpret games from scratch each turn. OpenAI's Responses API retains reasoning across turns and replaces truncation with compaction, matching how GPT-5.6 Sol is deployed in ChatGPT and Codex. Humans averaged 48% on the benchmark.

Microsoft has released over a dozen MAI models cutting GPU costs 50–89% across products. MAI-Cyber-Flash topped the CyberGym benchmark, beating Mythos by 12 points at half the cost. MAI-Voice-Flash reduces GPU costs 89% in Dynamics 365 Contact Center. MAI-Image-2.Flash cuts PowerPoint GPU costs 84% and boosted OneDrive save rates 26%. MAI-Code-Flash powers GitHub Copilot for millions of developers. MAI-Transcribe-1.5 serves 170,000 medical providers across 58 languages, halving transcription errors.

Google Gemini is offering a free video creation trial that lets users generate up to ten videos at no cost through August 4, 2026, at 11:59pm PT. The offer is available exclusively to users without an existing Google AI subscription plan. Users can access the feature by selecting "Create video" in Gemini's tools menu, which supports creating, editing, and remixing videos. The trial is powered by Gemini's Omni model capabilities.

xAI has launched Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0, its most capable speech-to-speech voice model, featuring improved intelligence, transcription accuracy, and conversational ability. The model scores 82.9% on Artificial Analysis's overall speech-to-speech quality index, outperforming GPT-Realtime-2.1 at 79.1% and Gemini 3.1 Flash at 69.5%. It delivers a 0.second time to first audio and shows 1.5–2.0× better transcription than Deepgram Nova 3 across 24 languages. Priced at $0.08 per minute, it becomes the default grok-voice-latest model on August 5, 2026.

OpenAI is launching ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, a free program giving 100,000 scientists, mathematicians, and engineers access to frontier models including GPT-5.6 Sol Pro. Starting with 10,000 researchers this summer at institutions like the Institute for Advanced Study and École normale supérieure, the program expands through 2027. Participants get higher usage limits, expanded deep research, and over 75 life science skills. The initiative is part of a broader $250 million commitment to support external scientific research.