New open-weight AI from China is toppling the best of OpenAI and Claude Fable

Moonshot’s 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 comes close to Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol in several benchmarks, while remaining open weight.

Gemini could finally let you choose how friendly it sounds

Google is testing voice customization for Gemini, letting users adjust energy, warmth, formality and speaking speed for a more personalized AI assistant.

This spinning drone hides in plain sight using a visual illusion

Northwestern engineers built a spinning drone that exploits motion blur, making it about ten times less visible than conventional drones.

Roblox’s AI Build tool wants to make game development as easy as texting

Roblox is celebrating 20 years with Build, a new tool that turns text prompts into playable games right from your phone.

Tesla finally launches a bike — but it’s not what fans wanted
Tesla finally launches a bike — but it’s not what fans wanted

Tesla fans have spent years begging the company to build an e-bike. Tesla just launched a bike — and it has no motor, no pedals, and it’s for toddlers.
The new “Balance Bike for Kids” sells for $225 on Tesla’s online shop, and it’s aimed at children ag…

ChatGPT will now remind teens to take breaks and give parents more controls

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT’s teen safety features with age prediction, break reminders, and stronger parental controls, while defending why teens deserve AI access at all.

Fortnite is getting a bunch of AI-powered ‘personas’
Fortnite is getting a bunch of AI-powered ‘personas’

Get ready for more AI characters in Fortnite. Developer Epic Games is going to let Fortnite creators publish experiences featuring characters with AI-powered voices starting on July 30th, and ahead of that launch, it’s created 36 characters with “consistent voices and personas” that creators can use as NPCs. The characters include Fortnite staples like Agent […]

Tesla (TSLA) shareholders are begging Musk to explain missed goals
Tesla (TSLA) shareholders are begging Musk to explain missed goals

Tesla shareholders have flooded the company’s Q2 2026 earnings Q&A portal with questions, and the most-upvoted ones tell a bleak story: retail investors are now demanding that Elon Musk explain why the company keeps missing its own short-term goals…

Netflix says around 300 titles used generative AI
Netflix says around 300 titles used generative AI

Netflix says roughly 300 titles on its platform used generative AI, most of which occurred in post-production. The streaming service revealed the news in its second-quarter earnings report released on Thursday, saying it’s “increasingly leveraging these tools to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost.” It also provided some examples of […]

ChatGPT’s new search tool saves you from digging through old chats, files, and images

No more digging through months of ChatGPT history, this new sidebar search finds chats, files, and images in seconds, with filters to narrow results.