| 15-07-2026 |
Claude AI |
Anthropic Launches Claude for Teachers With Free Premium Access for U.S. Educators |
Company News |
Anthropic has introduced Claude for Teachers, a new program offering free access to premium Claude features for verified K–12 educators in the United States. The program includes a library of teaching skills and direct access to evidence-based curricula aligned with academic standards across all 50 states, helping teachers create lessons, personalize instruction, and streamline classroom preparation. |
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| 15-07-2026 |
Perplexity AI |
Perplexity Open Sources WANDR Research Benchmark |
Company News |
Perplexity has open sourced WANDR, the internal benchmark it developed to evaluate and improve the deep research capabilities behind Perplexity Computer. WANDR was used during the development of the platform's long-form research and agentic workflows, and is now available to the broader AI community to support benchmarking and advancement of research-focused AI systems. |
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| 15-07-2026 |
Character AI |
Character.AI Expands Lorebooks With Discovery and Creation Tools |
What's New |
Character.AI has expanded Lorebooks with new discovery and creation features. Characters that use Lorebooks now appear in Discover and Search with a +Lore tag, while published Lorebooks can be browsed from character and creator profiles. Users can also create their own Lorebooks on both the web and mobile apps via the +Create menu, building reusable world knowledge with keyword-triggered entries that characters automatically reference during conversations. |
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| 14-07-2026 |
NotebookLM |
NotebookLM Adds Google Drive Sync and Productivity Upgrades |
Service |
NotebookLM has introduced several new productivity features, including automatic syncing for sources imported from Google Drive, ensuring notebooks stay updated when source documents change. Other additions include pinning notebooks to the homepage, reordering or deleting slides in slide decks (web), sharing individual artifacts, downloading slide decks on mobile, and searching notebooks on mobile, improving organization and collaboration across devices. |
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| 14-07-2026 |
Manus AI |
Manus Introduces Auto-Publish for Website Deployments |
What's New |
Manus has launched Auto-Publish, a new feature that automatically deploys successful website builds to a live URL. The feature is disabled by default to give users control over what gets published, but when enabled, it allows queued changes to be built and deployed automatically—streamlining the path from development to production with minimal manual intervention. |
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| 14-07-2026 |
Character AI |
Character.AI Launches Lorebooks for Shared Worldbuilding |
Feature |
Character.AI has introduced Lorebooks, a highly requested feature that lets creators build and share persistent world knowledge across multiple AI characters. Users can define locations, items, factions, species, and other lore, with keyword-triggered entries that are automatically referenced during conversations. Rolling out in beta for c.ai+ subscribers, Lorebooks enable creators to maintain consistent worlds across an entire cast of characters and explore community-created settings. |
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| 14-07-2026 |
ChatGPT |
ChatGPT Expands Messaging App Availability Across Europe and Asia |
Company News |
OpenAI announced that ChatGPT is once again available on WhatsApp in the European Economic Area (EEA), allowing users to chat with the AI directly through the messaging app. Users can message the verified 1-800-CHATGPT contact to ask questions, upload images, send voice notes, generate images, and converse in multiple languages. OpenAI also expanded ChatGPT's messaging presence with availability on Kakao in South Korea and Viber in supported markets, bringing AI to more of the apps people use every day. |
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| 14-07-2026 |
Claude AI |
Anthropic Studies How Claude's Values Vary Across Models and Languages |
Research |
Anthropic has published new research examining how the values expressed by Claude differ across model versions and languages. Building on previous work that identified more than 3,000 values—including traits such as honesty and warmth—the study analyzed over 300,000 anonymized conversations to better understand how Claude's behavior and value expression change across different contexts, languages, and model variants. |
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| 13-07-2026 |
Character AI |
Character.AI Launches Super Talent Inc. Audio Drama on c.ai FM |
What's New |
Character.AI has released Super Talent Inc., a new audio drama on c.ai FM. The romantic dramedy follows a public relations executive at a superhero agency whose newest client turns out to be someone from her past. Designed as a headphone-first listening experience, the series expands Character.AI's growing lineup of original AI-powered entertainment content |
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| 13-07-2026 |
Grok AI |
Elon Musk Says Grok 4.5 Tops Fable on Some Software Benchmarks |
Social Media News |
xAI CEO Elon Musk claimed that Grok 4.5 scores slightly higher than Claude Fable on certain software engineering benchmarks. According to Musk, the results highlight Grok 4.5's strong coding capabilities ahead of its broader public release. The performance claim has not been independently verified. |
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