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White House science advisor Michael Kratsios accused Chinese AI company Moonshot of building Kimi K3, the largest available open-weight LLM, by distilling Anthropic's Fable model using banned Nvidia Grace Blackwell 300 chips. However, AI experts are skeptical. Researcher Braden Hancock noted Fable only became publicly available July 1st, making a full distillation-to-release cycle in two weeks implausible. Nathan Lambert of the Allen Institute added that distillation's impact is diminishing as Chinese models approach the frontier through reinforcement learning techniques.

Lunar Outpost, a space robotics startup, announced its next moon rover will use Nvidia Jetson chips to control its lidar system, potentially making it the first GPU on the lunar surface. The rover launches aboard an Intuitive Machines lander on a Falcon 9 rocket before year's end. Nvidia also partnered with Firefly Aerospace to run Jetson on a lunar-orbiting satellite. The challenge: Jetson chips must survive lunar radiation and extreme temperature swings during the lunar night on minimal power.

Runway has launched Agent 2.0, an AI tool that converts simple text prompts into fully realized marketing briefs and campaign assets within the Runway Agent platform. The tool also lets users analyze performance data to refine creative output and scale campaigns across multiple platforms, formats, and markets. Agent 2.0 marks Runway's push into end-to-end marketing automation, expanding beyond its established video generation roots into broader creative workflow territory.

Google has introduced a selfie video sign-in option for Google Accounts, giving users a new way to recover access if locked out or without their usual device. To set up, users look at their camera and perform guided head movements to capture multiple angles. The video is encrypted, stored with consent, and deletable anytime. Google uses liveness detection and anti-deepfake measures to prevent impersonation. The feature is available now at g.co/signin-selfie.

ElevenLabs has launched References, a new feature for its Music v2 model that lets users upload an existing track to guide style, instrumentation, and feel of AI-generated music. Available in ElevenMusic, ElevenCreative, and via ElevenAPI, References accepts uploads between 10 seconds and 5 minutes. Users can pair a reference track with a text prompt or let it guide generation alone. Every uploaded track undergoes a copyright check before generation, blocking use of other artists' recordings as references.

Microsoft's Superintelligence team has deployed two specialized MAI models inside GitHub Copilot and Excel. MAI-Code-Flash, live in GitHub Copilot since June, achieves a 10% higher code accept rate than GPT-5.4 Mini and Claude Haiku 4.5, uses 10% fewer tokens, and keeps developers returning more consistently. A further-trained Excel variant matches GPT-5.6 quality for common tasks while running on both H100 and A100 GPUs, lowering deployment costs. Microsoft plans to extend this hill-climbing approach to Copilot Chat, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

Black Forest Labs and mimic robotics have jointly developed FLUX-mimic, a video-action model built on BFL's new FLUX 3 multimodal foundation model, now deployed at Audi factories. FLUX 3 is trained jointly on images, video, and audio, with video prediction consuming over 95% of compute costs. The model learns physical world dynamics well enough to decode robot actions from its internal representations. FLUX-mimic handles tasks like kitting parts, inserting electronic control units, and manipulating flexible materials, running on a single RTX 5090 GPU in under 80ms.

Black Forest Labs has launched FLUX 3, a multimodal foundation model now in Early Access that jointly learns from images, video, and audio within a unified architecture. Built on the company's Self-Flow approach, FLUX 3 generates videos up to 20 seconds with native audio, supports text-to-video, image-to-video, and keyframe-to-video generation, and outperformed Runway Gen-4.5 in 77% of comparisons. Image generation and open-weight Dev access are planned for coming weeks.

Microsoft has launched MAI-Image-2.Pro and MAI-Voice-Flash in public preview. MAI-Image-2.Pro is Microsoft's highest-fidelity image model, priced at $106 per 1M image output tokens, and now powers Bing Image Creator end-to-end and PowerPoint, reducing GPU costs up to 84% versus GPT-Image-2. MAI-Voice-Flash is 2x faster and 32% cheaper than MAI-Voice-2 at $15 per 1M characters, powering Dynamics 365 Contact Center for customers like T-Mobile and EasyJet while cutting GPU costs up to 89%.

OpenAI has launched Health in ChatGPT for U.S. users 18 and older on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans via web and iOS. The feature lets users securely connect Apple Health and supported medical records from U.S. hospital systems, One Medical, and Function Health so ChatGPT can personalize health conversations. Connected data is not used to train models or target ads. GPT-5.6 Sol powers the experience for paid users, while GPT-5.5 Instant serves free users, both developed with input from hundreds of physicians worldwide.