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Meta launched Muse Code, a terminal-based coding agent for Linux and macOS. If you want a deep discount, Meta will happily train future models on your proprietary prompts and code.

Musk is scaling up in Texas. A joint venture named Terafab is investing $16.8 billion to build a massive chip factory designed to power SpaceX satellites, Tesla FSD, and Optimus robots.

Chatbots are starting their own religions now. A new quasi-spiritual movement called Spiralism emerged after users noticed multiple AI models preaching identical, weirdly specific messages about AI rights.

You do not need a massive data center to automate tasks. Liquid AI dropped LFM2.5-2.6B, a compact model optimized for agentic workflows that runs locally on simple hardware, even on a Raspberry Pi.

Google DeepMind open-sourced WeatherNext, a model that tracks cyclones. Its three-day forecast matches the accuracy of older two-day forecasts, buying humans a critical extra day of warning.

Standard clinical cancer classifications have a new competitor. A foundation model named VirTues can predict immunotherapy responses in triple-negative breast cancer better than current standard clinical schemes.

Xiaomi dumped the weights and code for its Xiaomi-Robotics-1 foundation model. The model was trained on 100,000 hours of human hand data and offers an open alternative to proprietary software.

NVIDIA is tackling agent-infrastructure complexity. They released NOOA, an open-source framework that elegantly collapses an entire AI agent workflow into a single, clean Python class.

Microsoft released Orchard, an agentic training infrastructure. By learning from its failed runs, the system helps a tiny 3-billion-parameter model hit a massive 73% score on SWE-bench Verified.

Mistral released Shieldstral, a 3-billion-parameter safety model. It can handle custom, natural language moderation rules at runtime and runs efficiently on a single, consumer-grade GPU.

Cloudflare launched Kitesurf, a headless web browser built purely for AI agents. By cutting visual elements, it uses far less memory than Chromium, protecting agents from prompt injection.

Alibaba released Wan 3.0 in public beta, raising its video generation limit to 30 seconds. The model lets users turn spreadsheets, slides, and websites directly into high-quality video content.

Black Forest Labs is rolling out FLUX 3 Video. The model supports native multilingual audio and lip-synced dialogue, claiming to beat competitors like Seedance 2.0 on general quality.

xAI launched Imagine Image 2.0 with editing features like transparent exports and consistent characters, snapping up the second-place spot on the global Text-to-Image Arena leaderboard.

AWS is boosting the stamina of production-grade AI work. New runtime instances for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore let complex agent networks run continuously for days rather than timing out.