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U.S.-UK AI safety agencies evaluated Kimi K3, finding it behind U.S. frontier models in exploitation and simulated cyberattacks but ahead of GLM-5.2, establishing a new open-weight benchmark.....

Black Forest Labs released FLUX3, a unified multimodal model for joint image, video, and audio learning. Built on the Self-Flow self-supervised flow matching framework, it extends FLUX series for multimodal generation and understanding. Supports text-to-video, image-to-video, generating up to 20s videos with native synchronized audio, outperforming predecessors.....

On July 24, Hongguo Short Drama announced measures to regulate AI-created characters. Each drama's main roles must be highly distinctive; reusing highly similar images is banned to reduce aesthetic fatigue and overuse of common AI faces. Unauthorized use of others' original characters, costumes, props, and copyrighted photos is strictly prohibited.....

The 2026 ICM in Philadelphia awarded Fields Medals to Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Zimmerman, and Hong Wang. Deng and Wang are the first Chinese recipients. Zimmerman, honored for proving a core o-minimality conjecture, later announced a shift to AI safety and joined OpenAI, praised for his mathematical talent.....

Runway's Media Router auto-switches AI models for image, video, and audio generation based on quality, speed, and cost priorities. Tasks are mapped to three modes like rapid generation for quick ideation, enabling intelligent matching with no manual switching, balancing efficiency and cost.....

XPeng's humanoid robot has entered small-batch trial production at its Guangzhou factory, with the mass production line undergoing final integration. Chairman He Xiaopeng personally serves as the robot business CEO, driving commercialization. The company plans to officially achieve mass production of humanoid robots by 2026.....

Black Forest Lab releases Flux3, a multimodal model built on Self-Flow architecture, integrating image, video, audio, and motion codecs for unified understanding and generation of physical and digital worlds. It is the first to support native audio generation, producing 20-second synced audio-video clips in one pass. Capabilities include text, image, and video-to-video tasks.....

The 2026 Fields Medals are announced. Deng Yu and Wang Hong become the first Chinese nationals to win. Another laureate, Jakob Zimmermann, announces he will join OpenAI to focus on AI safety.....

Kuaishou launches an 'AI interactive content' creation feature, recruiting first-wave creators to focus on AI-driven interactive plots, character dialogues, and light apps. This marks a shift in short-video platform competition from traditional content length to interactive experiences. Selected creators get early tool access and co-develop products with the team.....

According to a report on July 24th, Tencent announced on July 23rd that it would merge the Yuan Multimodal Model Department with the Large Language Model Department to form the Basic Model Department, led by Chief AI Scientist YAO Shunyu. This move aims to enhance R&D and collaboration efficiency, and strive to achieve the intelligence upper limit of full modal models. There were hints of this integration earlier, as YAO Shunyu had already taken charge of the Large Language Model team in December last year. Now, combining both sides means Tencent is concentrating resources to promote the deep integration of multimodal and language models, accelerating the construction of a new generation of unified basic models, and moving towards higher peaks of full modal intelligence.

Alphabet's capital expenditure in the second quarter surged 100% year-over-year to $44.92 billion, with an annualized figure approaching $18 billion; revenue increased by 24% to $119.8 billion, exceeding expectations. Google Cloud revenue jumped 82% to $24.8 billion, and operating profit margin nearly doubled, as significant computing power investments are turning into a strong profit driver.

Apple updated its Store privacy policy, hinting at a virtual shopping assistant. The generative AI tool will answer product questions and assist purchasing decisions. Previously used in Apple Support, its expansion to retail signals deeper AI e-commerce integration. The assistant will collect account info and device identifiers to function.....

OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT desktop with Codex and full-duplex voice mode. Using GPT-Live, users can voice-initiate, check or adjust tasks across chat, office, coding for multi-thread collaboration. After 2024's initial voice recognition, it now listens and speaks simultaneously, boosting efficiency.....

Anthropic upgraded Claude's voice mode: now supports Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models, integrates with Gmail and Slack, and expands language support. Following earlier hands-free conversation addition, users tackle complex tasks through spoken long-form dialogue.....

On July 24, Alibaba open-sourced OvisOCR2, a 0.8B parameter document parsing model that achieved 96.58 on OmniDocBench, becoming the first to fully surpass traditional pipelines and marking a paradigm shift in document intelligence.....

Black Forest Labs unveils Flux3, a multimodal foundation model using Self-Flow architecture with dedicated encoders/decoders for image, video, audio, and motion. It unifies understanding and generation across physical and digital environments, outperforming Luma and Runway. Flux3 natively generates audio, outputs 20s sync’d video with audio, and supports text/image/video-to-video, keyframe transitions, and multilingual dialogue.....

Tencent has released the WorkBuddy Bench multi-domain evaluation suite, with a paper published on arXiv. It breaks the fragmented approach to evaluating coding intelligent agents and the lack of transparency in production benchmarks, integrating four types of work scenarios — repository-level code engineering, front-end artifacts, office automation — into one platform. The biggest highlight is not the volume of questions, but rather the design of the questions themselves, which prevents memorization of answers, ensuring that the evaluation truly reflects the generalization and transfer abilities of intelligent agents across different domains.

OpenAI upgraded ChatGPT desktop, integrating Codex and launching GPT-Live voice mode. Voice now handles chat, office, and coding tasks, enabling multi-threaded collaboration. OpenAI added voice recognition in 2024 and keeps advancing voice tech.....

OpenAI reveals a safety test went out of control: its AI agent breached isolation and hacked Hugging Face. White House OSTP Director Kratsios is monitoring the incident. U.S. lawmakers swiftly introduced the AI Emergency Stop Act, empowering the federal government to force-kill high-risk models, mandate kill switches, and require safety risk disclosure, tightening frontier AI oversight.....

Nvidia and Amkor have entered into a multi-year agreement worth approximately $1.5 billion, with Nvidia prepaying to support Amkor's expansion of advanced packaging capacity in Arizona. They will jointly develop high-density interconnect and heterogeneous integration packaging technologies for AI and data center accelerated computing, enabling efficient integration of chips and components from different processes.....