Artificial Inteligence feed for Thursday, August 6, 2026

• OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400
• Jony Ive’s first OpenAI gadget is reportedly a hockey puck-sized smart speaker
• Suno shares plans to combat spammy AI music
• ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users
• Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company
• OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats
• Gen Z dating apps like Ditto ditch swiping in favor of AI matchmaking
• OpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case
• WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones
• SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump’s library months before federal data center deal
• The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers
• Amid legal battles, Suno says it will start watermarking songs
• The messy politics behind Google’s big AI shakeup
• AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed
• Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI
• Ex-Spotify employees raise $10M to bring the AI behind its recommendations to e-commerce
• Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings
• Omilia raises $67M to scale its customer support platform
• Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users
• OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is ‘rotten to its core’
• Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI
• Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months
• Baseten on Hugging Face Inference Providers
• From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work