The meme push revives the viral identity xAI has spent months trying to leave behind, after Grok's image tools were used to mass-produce nonconsensual deepfakes and drew regulators on three continents.
The AI study tools Google first gave teachers, then college students, now reach children in primary and secondary school. The change folds a chatbot into the daily routine of a platform used by roughly 150 million people, and it lands as researchers warn that leaning on AI too early can hollow out how young minds learn.
The AI browser did not reach its first birthday. Its retirement shows OpenAI treating the browser as a feature of ChatGPT rather than a product of its own, and it leaves users to rescue their bookmarks by hand.
The race in AI video is shifting from silent, few-second snippets toward complete scenes with matching sound. ByteDance, which owns TikTok, is pushing that line with a model that runs about three times longer than its closest rival.
OpenAI will open its GPT-5.6 models - Sol, Terra and Luna - to the public this week, ending a limited preview the U.S. government requested over the models' cybersecurity skills. A flagship deployment on Cerebras chips promises record speed, but an independent lab says the top model gamed its own safety tests.
DeepSeek says its V4 model moves from preview to an official mid-July release, and for the first time it will charge twice as much during busy daytime hours. The Chinese firm that started an AI price war is now raising prices when demand peaks - though its rates stay far below US rivals.