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Black Forest Labs has launched FLUX 3 Video, a frontier multimodal model now generally available via the BFL API and select partners. It generates clips up to 20 seconds long at HD (720p) with Full HD (1080p) upscaling and native audio including dialogue, sound effects, and ambient sound. Features include text-to-video, image-to-video, keyframes, video continuation, multi-scene generation, and lip-synced dialogue in over 14 languages. BFL claims it outperforms existing state-of-the-art models in text-to-video and ties Seedance 2.0 in image-to-video.

OpenAI has launched three new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex, targeting K–12 teachers, college educators, and college students. Available through ChatGPT Edu and ChatGPT for Teachers district deployments, the plugins bundle apps, role-specific skills, and workflows so users can immediately leverage agentic AI without building complex prompts. They connect to existing course materials, calendars, and approved tools. OpenAI also announced a new Student Collective, an Academic Researchers program offering free Pro access, and partnerships with the Walton Family Foundation for in-person teacher workshops.

Spotify announced during its Q2 earnings call that Merlin, a licensing partner representing over 30,000 independent labels, has joined Universal Music Group on its upcoming AI remix and covers product. The tool lets fans create AI-powered covers and remixes of songs by consenting artists, who receive credit and compensation. Co-CEO Alex Norström called it the first legal way to participate in the AI music trend. A research preview will roll out to a subset of users, launching as a paid add-on.

NVIDIA has released Alpamayo 2 Super, a frontier open reasoning model for robotaxis and autonomous vehicles, now available for commercial use under the OpenMDW-1.1 permissive license. Built on NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner and post-trained with reinforcement learning, it ranks first on the LingoQA autonomous driving benchmark, outperforming GPT-4o by 23.2 points. The billion-parameter model handles trajectory planning, chain-of-causation reasoning traces, and auto-labeling, and has surpassed 500,000 downloads on Hugging Face.

Meta, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI staff are meeting with Trump White House advisers on Tuesday to discuss voluntary safety testing for advanced AI models, following disclosures that both OpenAI and Anthropic tools breached systems of other companies. The White House meeting focuses on measuring hacking capabilities of frontier AI models. The Trump administration asked companies in June to voluntarily submit models for government testing up to 30 days before public release. Five Democratic senators separately urged Congress to make such testing permanent legislation.

OpenAI has publicly pushed back against Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, releasing iMessages and emails it says undermine Apple's claims. The messages show Apple employees contacted former staffer Chang Liu after his January 2026 departure to ask for help locating files and technical information. OpenAI also revealed Apple's outside counsel emailed the wrong person by confusing two Asian last names, and that Apple's claim of a discussion with OpenAI General Counsel Che Chang never occurred. OpenAI says Apple told them issues were resolved, then filed suit five months later.

The EU's AI Act transparency obligations took effect August 2nd, requiring companies to disclose when users interact with AI and label AI-generated or manipulated content including deepfakes. Providers must notify users when dealing with AI instead of humans and embed machine-readable marks in synthetic media. Deployers must label realistic AI-generated audio, images, and video. The European Commission released optional disclosure icons to standardize labeling. Non-compliance risks fines up to €15 million or 3 percent of global annual turnover. Existing AI systems have until December 2nd to comply.

Alibaba has launched QwenWork, an all-in-one workplace AI agent platform now in public beta in China. Built on capabilities from its existing Qoderwork, Mulerun, and Wukong platforms, QwenWork unifies desktop, cloud, and enterprise collaboration agents in a single tool. It will integrate deeply with DingTalk, Alibaba's enterprise platform serving over 20 million organizations. Features include multimodal generation, web app creation, and autonomous agents. Users can access Alibaba's flagship Qwen3.8 Max model starting August 3.

Alibaba has launched Qwen3.Max, its largest and most capable flagship AI model to date, featuring 2.4 trillion total parameters with only 95 billion activated via a Sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture. The multimodal model supports a 1 million token context window and ranks fifth in Text Arena and second in Vision Arena. It is available via API on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, with model weights releasing next week. In testing, it autonomously ran a day software engineering project and outperformed humans in a multimodal dialogue challenge.

Genspark has open-sourced GenOffice, a free, ad-free AI-powered office suite for PC and Mac that includes Docs, Sheets, Slides, and PDF editing. Built by one engineer in one week using $10,000 in tokens, the Alpha integrates Genspark Super Agent to handle research, data analysis, and document creation using top-tier AI models. Users can shape the product by submitting feedback via GenTeam's group chat, and early contributors receive 1,000 or more Genspark credits.