Lucas Ferretti
AI News writer at AIxploria
Lucas Ferretti reports on AI startups, funding rounds, and the business side of artificial intelligence for AIxploria.
Topics covered
openai
anthropic
gemini
chatgpt
ai agents
Articles by Lucas Ferretti (31)
- Free ChatGPT Goes Unlimited, and Luna Takes the Default Seat OpenAI removes the message cap for free ChatGPT accounts: GPT-5.6 Luna becomes the default, with a new Think button for harder questions, live next week.
- A Full AI Agent Now Fits in 2.5 GB Right on Your Phone Liquid AI's LFM2.5-2.6B runs a full AI agent on your phone in under 2.5 GB, with tool calls and multi-step tasks, no cloud needed. Fast, private, free.
- Google Pulls AI From Google Earth After 24 Hours of Satellite Deepfakes Fake refugee camps, a fictional nuclear plant in Iran: Google suspended Nano Banana 2 in Google Earth one day after launch. Inside a 24-hour fiasco.
- Microsoft Is Merging All Its Copilots Into One Super App This Quarter Satya Nadella confirms it: Copilot chat, GitHub code tools, Cowork, and Autopilot agents will merge into a single app by the end of September 2026.
- US and China Finally Set First AI Talks for September US and China will hold their first official AI talks in September, both spooked by the other's frontier models: Mythos and Kimi K3.
- Grok Just Made Excel Formulas Free, Copilot Still Costs $30 xAI just slid Grok into Excel for free to write your formulas, right where Microsoft charges $30 a month for Copilot.
- AI Slop: Definition, Examples, and Dangers of Mass-Produced AI Content AI slop just wiped 4.7 billion views off YouTube. Here's what the buzzy 2025 word means, and why platforms are cracking down.
- Spotify Now Lets You Just Talk to It, No ChatGPT Needed Spotify rolls out its own AI chat assistant, letting users talk music, playlists and podcasts without ever opening ChatGPT.
- Seedance 2.5: 3-Minute AI Videos Coming Soon to CapCut? ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 is set to land on CapCut with 30-second AI clips, extendable to 180 in beta. Here's what actually changes.
- Cloudflare Gives AI Crawlers Until September 15 to Pay Up or Get Blocked Cloudflare will block mixed-use AI crawlers by default on September 15, forcing OpenAI, Anthropic and Google to pay up or lose access to 20% of the web.
- Claude Sonnet 5: Anthropic's Mid-Tier Model Now Punches at Opus 4.8 Weight for Half the Cost Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 delivers near-Opus 4.8 performance at 60% less cost. Pricing, benchmarks, Claude Science launch, and what it means for devs.
- AI Was Supposed to Kill Developer Jobs: 2026 Data Tells a Very Different Story 2026 data contradicts AI's developer job apocalypse: BLS projects 17% growth, but junior roles face a squeeze. Here's the real picture.
- Jalapeño: OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Their First Custom AI Chip, and Nvidia Can Feel the Heat OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, their first custom inference chip. Targeting 50% token cost savings with late 2026 deployment planned.
- GPT-5.6 Spotted in Codex Logs: Polymarket Bets 89% on a June Launch GPT-5.6 spotted in Codex routing logs with a rumored 1.5M token context window. Polymarket gives it 89% odds for a June 2026 launch.
- WWDC 2026 Recap: Siri AI, iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate, and Tim Cook's Emotional Farewell WWDC 2026 recap: Siri AI with Gemini, iOS 27 speed boosts, macOS Golden Gate, Liquid Glass tweaks, and Tim Cook's emotional farewell.
- Mistral AI Wants to Design Its Own Chips: $830M in Debt, a Data Center, and a Sovereignty Play Mistral AI explores custom chip design, raises $830M for a Paris data center, and launches Vibe. A bold full-stack pivot from Europe's AI champion.
- OpenAI Files for IPO: The $1 Trillion AI Stock Market Debut Is Coming This Fall OpenAI filed its confidential IPO prospectus with the SEC, targeting a September 2026 debut at up to $1 trillion. Here's what it means.
- Adobe, Canva, and CapCut Land Inside Gemini: Google Wants to Be Your One-Stop Creative Studio Adobe, Canva, and CapCut are integrating into Google Gemini after I/O 2026. AI design, video editing, templates: what it means for creators.
- Google Search Goes Full AI: Agents, Mini-Apps, and the End of Ten Blue Links Google Search gets its biggest overhaul in 25 years with AI agents, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and mini-apps. Here's what changed at I/O 2026 and who loses.
- Google I/O 2026: Gemini 4.0, XR Glasses, Omni, and AI Agents — Everything Coming on May 19 Google I/O 2026 kicks off May 19: Gemini 4.0, Gemini Omni video model, Android XR glasses, and AI agents. Here's everything to expect.
- GPT-Realtime-2: OpenAI Quadruples Context Window and Brings GPT-5 Reasoning to Voice AI GPT-Realtime-2 launches with 128k context, GPT-5-class reasoning, and two companion models. Everything you need to know about OpenAI's voice push.
- Meta's AI Now Scans Your Bone Structure to Catch Underage Users on Instagram and Facebook Meta's new AI scans bone structure and height in photos to detect underage users on Instagram and Facebook. Here's what it means for privacy.
- Google Accidentally Leaked Gemini 3.2 Flash, and It Already Outperforms 3.1 Pro on Coding Google's unannounced Gemini 3.2 Flash leaked on iOS and LM Arena, outperforming 3.1 Pro on coding at a lower price. Here's what we know.
- Musk vs. OpenAI Trial Week One: Courtroom Gasps, Leaked Texts, and a $134 Billion Question Musk v. OpenAI trial week one recap: xAI distillation bombshell, threatening texts, and $134B at stake in Oakland courthouse.
- Google Earth AI: Gemini Now Crunches Satellite Imagery in Minutes, Not Weeks Google Earth AI uses Gemini to shrink weeks of satellite image analysis into minutes. Three major announcements from Cloud Next 2026 explained.
- ChatGPT Images 2.0: OpenAI's Image Generator Now Thinks Before It Draws, and It's a Big Deal ChatGPT Images 2.0 adds reasoning to AI image generation with 2K resolution and record Arena scores. Here's what it means for the competition.
- ChatGPT Now Runs Ads in Four Countries, Hit $100M Revenue, and the AI World Is Split ChatGPT ads expand to four countries with $100M annualized revenue in six weeks. Anthropic says no. Here's what it means for AI users.
- Forbes AI 50 2026: $305 Billion Raised, 20 Newcomers, and a Clear Signal About Where AI Is Heading Forbes AI 50 2026 highlights $305B in total funding, 20 newcomers, and a new Brink List. Here's what it reveals about AI's real winners.
- Tesla Rolls Out Robotaxis in Dallas and Houston, but Waymo Got There First Tesla launched its Robotaxi service in Dallas and Houston on April 18, 2026. Fleet size, geofences, and how it stacks up against Waymo.
- Google and Avid Team Up to Bring Agentic AI Straight Into Hollywood's Editing Suite Google Cloud and Avid embed Gemini agentic AI into Media Composer. What this multi-year deal means for film and TV post-production workflows.
- Claude Opus 4.7 Plus an AI Design Tool: Anthropic's Busiest Week Yet Anthropic preps Claude Opus 4.7 and an AI design tool this week. Adobe and Figma stocks dipped. Here's what it means for you.
