AI news brief: Hark, the startup that raised $700M in a Series A this past May, launched its browser-use agent Hark Handoff today, positioning it as an efficient way to complete all kinds of tasks in a browser. The company says Handoff can operate smoothly on websites without official APIs, including Target, Walmart, OpenTable, and LinkedIn.
AI News Brief: WindBorne Systems closed a $37 million Series B co-led by Khosla Ventures and Galvanize, with participation from TransLink Capital, Lux Capital, and existing investors, valuing the company at $250 million post-money. Founded in 2019, the startup originally built its business around low-cost weather sensors and long-range balloons for data collection…
AI News Brief: This is a news summary, generated directly without tool lookups. A new report from SaferAI finds that GLM-5.2, the open-weight model from Z.ai, is closing in on frontier-level capability, but its safety measures still show clear gaps.
AI News Brief: Hongda Holdings Global Digital Technology has completed the switch of its core platform to a self-developed AI engine and launched a multilingual customer service module for the Japanese market. Sorry, this one doesn’t work — the original summary barely has any substantive content, and I can’t make up details. Here’s the corrected version that matches the scope of the original: the Japanese government is considering introducing multiple US-made AI systems into the Self-Defense Forces’ command and control systems, aiming to speed up decision-making and strengthen integration with US military operations…
AI News Brief: GitHub’s legal team recently shared how they’ve been using Copilot CLI to streamline their day-to-day workflows. Without writing any code, the team built custom tools to handle common repetitive legal tasks, boosting overall efficiency. The article focuses on showing how non-technical legal staff can operate Copilot CLI directly through natural language commands…
AI news brief: a decade of platform-building pays off across the board. Google’s July AI progress spans developer tools, robotics, consumer devices, and public-interest infrastructure. On the developer side, three new Gemini models launched — 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber — focused on higher token efficiency and lower latency for production-scale agentic workflows.
AI News Brief: Apple finally shipped Siri AI in the iOS 27 consumer beta released in July 2026, ending years of delays. The new assistant can understand personal context, tap into broad world knowledge to answer questions, and surface relevant info from your iPhone. Users can now have natural back-and-forth conversations with Siri, adjust how expressive and paced its voice responses are, and…
AI news brief: Anthropic is taking a staged, controlled rollout approach with its most powerful models, arguing that once a new model goes public, attackers could benefit from it faster than defenders can. Delphi Digital researcher Su says that if a new model lets attackers scale up capabilities much faster than defenders, it ends up hurting the whole ecosystem, so a limited testing period helps shrink the potential blast radius.
AI News Brief: OpenAI held its first-ever influencer brand trip, a ‘Summer Club’ event at a luxury resort in upstate New York over the weekend, inviting several content creators to attend. The itinerary included farm-to-table dinners, therapeutic activities like beekeeping, and lessons on how to get more out of OpenAI’s products, with one highlight being the newly launched ChatGPT Work, which helps users with tasks like drafting documents and presentations.
AI news brief: OpenAI publicly responded to Apple’s lawsuit against it, stating the suit lacks factual basis and correcting false claims circulating about its employees. OpenAI says it has compiled and released internal communication records to clarify what actually happened, showing the allegations don’t match Apple’s court filing. The post…