Wednesday, 1 July 2026
Gemini Spark lands on Mac with MCP support
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Google's Gemini Spark is now on macOS for US AI Ultra subscribers, with local file access, app integrations, and custom MCP connectors.
Venice AI raises $65M, hits unicorn status
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Venice AI closes a $65M Series A led by Dragonfly at a $1B valuation with $70M ARR, 3 million users, and no user data stored on its servers.
Cloudflare launches Pay Per Crawl for AI bots
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Cloudflare lets publishers charge AI crawlers per request via HTTP 402. From September 15, agent and training bots are blocked by default on new domains.
Fable 5 returns globally July 1
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After 18 days of US export controls, Anthropic restores Fable 5 access worldwide and proposes an industry jailbreak severity scoring standard.
Meta plans cloud to sell excess AI compute
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Meta is building a cloud business to sell surplus AI compute and hosted model access to outside companies, competing with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.