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Xi Jinping launches a new AI alliance as Kimi K3 tops Hacker News and Meta slashes open-model prices, Google ships Gemini 3.5 Pro, and Apple escalates its OpenAI fight with legal letters to staff.
ChatGPT Work runs tasks for hours across 1,400 connectors; Gemini Spark works 24/7 but needs Google AI Ultra. How the two 2026 agents differ on price and access.
Gemini Spark is US-only, Mac-only, and gated behind Google AI Ultra at $100+/month. Six alternatives that give you an always-on AI agent without those walls.
Gemini Spark is Google's 24/7 agent for AI Ultra subscribers; ChatGPT now includes the ChatGPT Work agent on most paid plans. Here's who should pick which.
Gemini Spark is Google's always-on agentic assistant, now in beta on Mac. What it does, its integrations, the Google AI Ultra price gate, and its limits.
OpenAI ships ChatGPT Work, a GPT-5.6 agent that runs for hours across your apps, while Google's Gemini Spark lands on Mac. The AI-that-does-your-work category is officially crowded.
Gemini now meters usage by compute: 5-hour refresh, weekly cap. Free gets 32k context; AI Plus 2x, Pro 4x, Ultra up to 20x Pro. All the real numbers.
NotebookLM's free tier caps notebooks, sources (~50 each), words per source (~500K), daily chats, and audio overviews. Plus raises them all.
Notion kills its email client because users handed it to agents. Plus Copilot Cowork's metered email agent goes GA, Microsoft's always-on Scout, meeting-bot lawsuits, and Attention's $30M round.
A German court rules Google liable for false AI Overview answers. Plus Gemini's real-time voice translation, Meta's first India data center, and the Fable 5 Bedrock fight.
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro to massive developer debate, ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 produces cinema-quality AI video that draws legal threats from every major studio, and custom silicon startup Taalas hits 17,000 tokens per second.
India's AI Impact Summit draws every major tech CEO to New Delhi. OpenAI's funding round tops $100B, Reliance commits $110B, Google pledges $15B for India, and Altman and Amodei refuse to hold hands for a group photo.
OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Go subscription with upcoming ads, judge rules Musk v. OpenAI fraud trial will proceed with potential $50B+ damages, Anthropic nears $350B valuation, and DeepMind CEO says China is 'months' behind in AI.
Apple announces historic partnership with Google for Gemini-powered Siri, Pentagon deploys Grok alongside Google AI, and the healthcare AI arms race intensifies with multiple product launches.