| 18-07-2026 |
Cisco Security Cloud |
Cisco Showcases AI-Powered Cloud-Managed Smart Cameras for Meraki |
What's New |
Cisco highlighted its cloud-managed smart cameras integrated with the Meraki dashboard. The solution combines edge storage, AI-powered video analytics, and people-counting insights with Cisco's networking platform, giving organizations centralized visibility and management for physical security and operational intelligence across locations. |
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| 18-07-2026 |
ChatGPT |
OpenAI Highlights GPT-5.6 Sol's Cybersecurity Performance |
Cybersecurity |
OpenAI announced that GPT-5.6 Sol achieved a new state-of-the-art result on "The Last Ones" cybersecurity benchmark, a cyber range designed to evaluate advanced security capabilities. According to OpenAI, the model's performance is already helping security teams identify, validate, and remediate vulnerabilities in real-world code. These capabilities are available through Codex Security, enabling AI-assisted defensive security workflows. |
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| 17-07-2026 |
NotebookLM |
Moonshot AI Unveils Kimi K3, Its Next-Generation Open Frontier Model |
AI Tool Benchmarking |
Kimi has introduced Kimi K3, a new frontier AI model featuring 2.8 trillion parameters, a 1 million-token context window, and native multimodal capabilities. The model incorporates Kimi Delta Attention for up to 6.3× faster decoding on million-token contexts and Attention Residuals, which improve training efficiency by approximately 25% with less than 2% additional cost. Designed for long-horizon agentic coding and self-evolving workflows, Kimi K3 is now available through Kimi, Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API, with open weights scheduled for release on July 27, 2026. |
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| 17-07-2026 |
Canva |
Canva Brings Design Tools to Google Search AI Mode |
Collaboration |
Canva has expanded its partnership with Google, making Canva directly accessible through AI Mode in Google Search. Users can now launch Canva's design tools from within Google's AI-powered search experience, further simplifying the process of creating and editing visual content without leaving Search. |
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| 17-07-2026 |
Grok AI |
Grok Launches Automations for Scheduled and Event-Driven AI Tasks |
Feature |
Grok has introduced Automations, a new feature that enables users to create scheduled or event-triggered AI workflows. Users simply describe a task once, choose a schedule or trigger, and Grok automatically executes the job and reports the results, expanding its capabilities for recurring and autonomous task automation. |
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| 17-07-2026 |
ChatGPT |
OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Custom Instructions to 5,000 Characters |
What's New |
OpenAI has increased the Custom Instructions limit in ChatGPT from 1,500 to 5,000 characters. The expanded limit gives users significantly more space to define detailed preferences, writing styles, workflows, and persistent behavior, enabling more personalized and consistent AI interactions. |
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| 17-07-2026 |
ChatGPT |
ChatGPT Work Adds Native Document, Spreadsheet, and Presentation Editing |
Feature |
OpenAI announced that ChatGPT Work can now create and edit polished documents, spreadsheets, and presentations directly within ChatGPT. Powered by GPT-5.6 and Codex, the new capabilities allow users to generate, refine, and collaborate on office productivity files as part of long-running AI workflows. |
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| 17-07-2026 |
Gemini AI |
Google Gemini Introduces Persistent AI Avatars for Image Generation |
Feature |
Google Gemini has introduced Avatar, a new feature powered by Nano Banana that lets users create a persistent digital avatar for image generation. After setting up an avatar once, users can generate personalized images of themselves in different scenes, artistic styles, and historical eras without needing to upload a new selfie each time, making personalized AI image creation faster and more consistent. |
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| 17-07-2026 |
OpenArt AI |
OpenArt Launches Video Remix in Director |
Feature |
OpenArt has launched Video Remix in OpenArt Director, allowing users to upload an existing video as inspiration and transform it through natural language prompts. The feature enables creators to iteratively remix scenes, styles, and motion using chat-based editing while producing a unique final video. |
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| 17-07-2026 |
Deepseek AI |
DeepSeek Raises $7.4B at $74B Valuation Ahead of IPO |
AI News |
DeepSeek is securing substantial funding to strengthen its position before the planned Shanghai IPO. The company is also developing its own inference chips to reduce reliance on external hardware providers. |
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