Heads-up: I’m away next week, so the next Sunday Rundown is on July 19.
Happy Sunday, friends!
Welcome back to the weekly AI news roundup.
In case you missed it, here’s this week’s Thursday deep dive:
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👩💻 AI releases
Anthropic news:
Claude Fable 5 has been redeployed after the government lifted its export restrictions, with an improved safety classifier to block harmful requests.
Claude Sonnet 5 is an upgrade to the company’s mid-range model with better coding, reasoning, and tool-use capabilities.
Cursor launched a native iOS app in public beta, letting developers build apps and manage coding agents from their phone.
Google news:
Gemini Omni Flash and Nano Banana 2 Lite are now available to developers in more places to support conversational video and image creation.
Gemini Spark, the 24/7 AI agent, is now available on macOS to automate desktop tasks, integrating with tools like Canva, Dropbox, and Instacart.
NotebookLM can now turn your sources into 60-second vertical video overviews with narration. (Ultra and Pro subscribers first. Free users later.)
Personal Intelligence can now generate personalized images with Nano Banana based on your data from Gmail, Google Photos, and YouTube.
Take Notes for Me can automatically transcribe Google Meet calls and generate summaries, saving everything to Drive. (Ultra and Pro subscribers.)
Runway added Google’s Gemini Omni Flash to its platform, so users can generate and edit videos from images, text, and video inputs.
Square now lets restaurants accept orders directly from ChatGPT and Claude, so customers can browse, order, and pay without leaving the chat.
X launched an official MCP server that lets AI agents like Claude and Cursor fetch timelines, manage bookmarks, and search posts more easily.
🔬 AI research
Google is rumored to be prepping Gemini 3.5 Pro for launch in July, with a two-million-token context window and Deep Think reasoning mode.
📖 AI resources
“Getting Started with Loops” [GUIDE]: Anthropic’s look at goal-based agentic loops in Claude. (I wrote a partially related, beginner-friendly take ten days ago.)
“Fable 5 vs GPT 5.6 Sol: The Early Results” [VIDEO]: A great dive by AI Explained.
🔀 AI random
Netflix will use an AI-generated Gene Wilder voice in its upcoming Wonka’s The Golden Ticket reality show, created with ElevenLabs and the family’s consent.
🤦♂️ AI fail of the week
“I’m starting to suspect this octopus isn’t the chess grandmaster we were told it was!”