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Launches, features and API changes.
VideoAgent Speedrun — Elizabeth Fuentes Leone & Sandhya Subramani, AWS
A customer service agent looks up an account, checks an order, and handles a refund.

Odyssey-3 is a new generative world model that you can try for free
Odyssey is making its world model Odyssey-3 available as a public research preview.

[AINews] Claude Haiku 5.5 — better than GPT-6 Luna at the same pricing
It’s been about a year since Anthropic shipped Haiku 4.5, and with successive launches of Sonnet and Opus and Fable up to 5.5 it was seeming a little forgotten, especially as OpenAI launched Luna 6 alongside Astra and Sol 6.
Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses
Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems.
GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
GPT‐6 is rolling out globally in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, delivering faster responses with visuals and interactive experiences you can explore and use directly.

Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI
When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," you'd be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on.
Introducing Playground: Create and play custom games
Playground is a new experimental gaming platform that lets you create, play, and share custom games.
openai/codex rust-v0.162.1: 0.162.1
Fixed a TUI crash when asynchronous questions contain multiple lines, preserving line breaks and complete hyperlink destinations. (#51866)
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.296
Added a code key to the Claude apps gateway's managed.policies[]: the same settings as cli, also applied in Claude Desktop's Code tab; beside desktop, it turns on Claude Desktop's gateway mode

Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally
Every piece of AI content from Google's Gemini models has a hidden SynthID label, which makes it very difficult to pass the content off as authentic.

Introducing Mistral Large 4
Today, we’re launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4.
Building on our commitment to American scientific discovery
Building on our commitment to American scientific discovery
EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
VideoMicrosoft Joins the Local AI Push
Microsoft is clearly going all in on local AI running on your machine and working with cloud models only when it needs to use them.
Scaling Decision Optimization to 100 Million Variables and Beyond with mPDLP in NVIDIA cuOpt
NVIDIA cuOpt GPU-accelerated decision optimization can already deliver speedups of more than 10x over CPU...

Launching an opt-in vulnerability-finding service for open-source software
We’re launching OSS Scanner, an opt-in vulnerability scanner for the open-source ecosystem informed by our experience using Claude to find vulnerabilities during Project Glasswing.
Beyond hours saved: Building the business case for agentic automation
In this post, we introduce a framework AI CoE leaders can use to build a business case that captures the full value of agentic automation.
Show HN: Jevman – AI decision models play Pac-Man
Openai just launched their decisions endpoint, cloudflare launched clef the other week, and many more jev alternatives are out there.
Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk
We go deep on Periodic’s vision for “synthesis superintelligence”: reinforcement learning grounded in physical experiments, AI-powered materials characterization, simulations and density functional theory, high-throughput labs, and systems that learn from the entire process of doing science rather than only its published results.
Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses
Harnessed Agentic RL: Microsoft Research Asia introduces a training paradigm in which the same agent harness used in deployment participates directly in reinforcement learning, removing the need to reimplement the agent inside the training framework.
Introducing Falcon ASR
We’re introducing Falcon-ASR, our 1.6 billion parameter speech recognition model for Arabic, with a particular focus on the Emirati dialect.
CoreWeave makes the case for an open, full-stack AI cloud
The post CoreWeave makes the case for an open, full-stack AI cloud appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Anthropic Subscriptions Offer 5x+ More Value Than OpenAI
Subscription plans are still the primary way consumers and small businesses pay for AI.
Expanding our enterprise inference capacity with IBM Cloud and NVIDIA
Enterprises can now run open models at production scale on a dedicated B300 inference cluster, built by Together AI, IBM Cloud, and NVIDIA

Introducing Dan Kagan-Kans
We just published the first post by our newest writer, Dan Kagan-Kans.
Assist
Invisible assistant, that lives in your MacBook’s notch

Everything we launched during Birthday Week 2026
We celebrated our 16th birthday last week by sharing how we’re building a better Internet for today’s world.
VideoAI Apps in a Flash: Ship to GPUs Without Docker — Dean Quiñanola, Runpod
Dean Quiñanola, staff engineer at Runpod, introduces Runpod Flash, which lets you run Python on cloud GPUs as if the GPU were local, with no Dockerfiles, image builds or registry pushes.

Building advertising for the way people use AI
OpenAI introduces a new visual ad format in ChatGPT and expands measurement tools, attribution partnerships, and brand suitability for advertisers.
A new feature for my blog, built using my voice
I used the ChatGPT desktop app for this, in the Codex tab, using the voice conversation mode, running against a local development environment.

Apple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup Huxe
Is Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?

Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes
In its first live event in two years, Microsoft today announced its newest Surface laptop, outlined a host of changes coming to Windows 11, and shared a vision of how local-AI and agentic workflows could reshape personal computing for those in the dev community as well as home enthusiasts.
openai/codex rust-v0.162.0: 0.162.0
Add tools for creating and listing managed Git worktrees from trusted local projects when the worktrees feature is enabled. (#50148)

Introducing the Anthropic Cyber Mission
Today we’re launching the Anthropic Cyber Mission, a long-term commitment to securing the systems everyone depends on.

Nvidia's big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots
“Now the AI models are getting capable, the robot hardware is getting capable, and a thing we thought is going to be the next bottleneck is safety,” Amit Goel, head of robotics ecosystem and edge computing at Nvidia, told Ars. “So that's why we launched our Halos for Robotics to unlock the capability of these systems.”
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.295
Added onFailure: "block" for command and HTTP hooks: a hook that can't start, times out, or exits with an unexpected code blocks the action instead of letting it through
Our approach to EU text provenance rules
How OpenAI is approaching text watermarking under EU rules.
How Cornerstone OnDemand cut database diagnosis by 78% with Amazon Bedrock
Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. (Cornerstone) is a global leader in workforce readiness solutions, serving 140 million users across 186 countries.
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.293
Added Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), now the default Haiku model on the Anthropic API — 1M context, $0.10/$0.50 per Mtok ($0.50/$2.50 for prompts over 100K)
Radisson Hotel Group brings hotel discovery into ChatGPT
Radisson partnered with Accenture to build a ChatGPT plugin using OpenAI technology, helping travelers find, compare, and book hotels while planning their trips.
Manage Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Spaces directly from SageMaker Studio
We recently introduced the ability to create and manage Amazon SageMaker Spaces on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod EKS clusters directly from the Amazon SageMaker Studio UI.
Expanding the Cyber Verification Program
We’re launching a new, expanded version of our Cyber Verification Program (CVP), which makes advanced cyber capabilities and reduced blocking classifiers available to qualifying security professionals.
Quoting Felix Rieseberg
The "old" version of Cowork runs model inference in the cloud, executing tool calls in an Anthropic-provided VM we shipped to your computer.
Introducing GLM 5.3 on Amazon Bedrock
GLM 5.3 from Z.ai (Zhipu AI) is now available on Amazon Bedrock.
Liquid AI builds personal AI around device-level context
On-device personal AI requires models and agent software that can operate within fixed hardware limits.
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.292
Added --marketplace <source> to claude plugin install: adds the marketplace if needed, under the same policy checks as claude plugin marketplace add, then installs the plugin from it
Supercharge regulated workloads with Claude Code and Amazon Bedrock
The availability of Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions introduces an on-ramp for AI-assisted development for workloads with regulatory or compliance requirements, including International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
New agent skill: Amazon SageMaker optimized generative AI inference for your coding agent
Today, Amazon SageMaker AI optimized generative AI inference introduces the aws-ai-ml skill, available through the Agent Toolkit for AWS.