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In This Issue
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🎥 Gemini Omni Flash Brings Conversational Video Editing
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☎️ xAI Launches a No-Code Voice Agent Builder With Grok Voice
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🧠 Claude Sonnet 5 Becomes Anthropic’s New Default Agentic Model
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🎓 Claude Corps Pays $85k for a Year of AI-Backed Nonprofit Work
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🎥 GOOGLE · GEMINI OMNI FLASH · VIDEO GENERATION
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Gemini Omni Flash Brings High-Quality Video and Conversational Editing.
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Google’s new Gemini Omni Flash model is aimed squarely at video: generating clips and then editing them with natural language prompts instead of timeline scrubbing. You can ask for new scenes, trims, overlays, or changes in tone and get updated video without touching a traditional editor. It slots into multimodal workflows via Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, signalling Google’s push to make “talk to your video” a normal pattern for creators and product teams rather than a niche demo.
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📌 Natural language editing means you describe the change (“shorter intro, brighter colours, remove logo”) and let Omni Flash handle the cut.
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⚡ Designed for multimodal use, so text, audio, and video can all be in play in the same workflow for creators and dev teams.
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Try Gemini Omni Flash in AI Studio →
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☎️ xAI · VOICE AGENT BUILDER · GROK VOICE
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xAI’s Voice Agent Builder Is a Full Stack, No-Code Phone Agent Platform.
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Voice Agent Builder from xAI lets you create production-ready phone agents powered by Grok Voice without stitching five different APIs together. For about $0.05 per minute you get telephony, tools, guardrails, knowledge retrieval, and observability built into one console, plus a free phone number to start testing. The pitch is simple: operators and developers can stand up real voice agents quickly instead of wiring up Twilio, LLMs, logging, and safety layers by hand.
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📌 Pricing at $0.05/min with a free number makes it approachable for pilots and small teams, not just big call centres.
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⚡ Includes tools, knowledge retrieval, guardrails, and observability out of the box, so you can focus on flows instead of plumbing.
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Learn about Voice Agent Builder →
Open the xAI console →
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Scale AI support on AWS, see how July 9
Customer expectations keep rising. Support budgets don't. On July 9, Fin and AWS are hosting a live executive session on how leading enterprises close that gap: scaling AI-powered support while simplifying how they buy it.
You'll see how to resolve an average 76% of conversations with Fin on AWS enterprise-grade infrastructure, procure through AWS Marketplace to put committed cloud spend to work, and turn the Fin and AWS collaboration into lower support costs. Register for the live session to see how.
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🧠 ANTHROPIC · CLAUDE SONNET 5 · AGENTIC MODEL
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Claude Sonnet 5 Is Anthropic’s New Default, Built to Actually Do Work.
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Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 is framed as their most agentic Sonnet yet: stronger planning, better autonomous tool use across browsers and terminals, and improved reasoning, coding, and knowledge work. It reportedly lands close to Opus 4.8 performance at a lower price, and it is now the default model for both Free and Pro users. The clear goal is to make “Sonnet” feel like the everyday workhorse that can orchestrate tools and follow multi-step tasks without needing the expensive flagship for most jobs.
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📌 Stronger planning and tool use matter most for agents and workflows, not just single-turn answers.
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⚡ Making Sonnet 5 the default on Free and Pro means many users will experience the upgrade without changing any settings.
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Read the Claude Sonnet 5 announcement →
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🎓 ANTHROPIC · CLAUDE CORPS · FELLOWSHIP
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Claude Corps Pays $85k for a Year of AI-Backed Nonprofit Work.
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Anthropic’s Claude Corps fellowship offers a 12-month, $85,000 paid role (with benefits) for early-career people who want to use Claude inside nonprofits. Applicants must be 18+ with under two years of full-time experience; there is no degree or prior AI background required. Fellows get training on Claude, then are embedded in partner nonprofits to help with real-world projects, everything from analysis and writing to operations, using AI as part of their daily work.
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📌 $85,000 for 12 months plus benefits is unusually generous for a fellowship, especially one open to people without long resumes.
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⚡ The program explicitly targets people with less than two years of full-time work, making it a genuine early-career opportunity.
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Apply for Claude Corps →
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The Ultimate Guide for Usage-Based Pricing for SaaS and AI
Implementing usage-based pricing successfully requires more than just a pricing strategy.
Download this guide for practical advice and best practices when considering usage-based pricing.
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