Day July 9, 2026

Solos Bets on Privacy-First Smart Glasses as Meta Dominates the Market

Solos launches smart glasses with a detachable privacy shield, challenging Meta’s camera-first approach in a fast-growing market.

Claude Cowork launches on mobile and web, with cloud-based tasks, phone notifications, and broader access for Anthropic users.

Anthropic expands Claude Cowork to web and mobile, showing how AI office agents are moving beyond chatbots and into everyday work.

Microsoft is embracing AI cost-cutting by routing some Word and Excel prompts to its own MAI models instead of third-party systems.

Open source AI is surging in usage, but Anthropic still dominates premium spend as frontier models and open models split the market.

OpenAI futurist Joshua Achiam is leaving after nearly nine years, highlighting a wider shift in the company’s safety and policy priorities.

Muse Image powers Meta’s AI photo tools in Instagram and WhatsApp, with @ mentions, edits and new Story effects.

Meta’s Instagram AI update lets public photos power remixes unless users opt out, sparking fresh privacy and consent concerns.

Meta launches its AI image generator Muse Image in Instagram, WhatsApp and the Meta AI app, with free use, presets and editing tools.

French startup ZML launches a free AI inference product to run models across Nvidia, AMD, Google, Apple and Intel hardware.