Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2 doesn't generate images the way other AI models do. Instead of computing pixels, the language model writes Python code that places hundreds of thousands of simulated brushstrokes on a virtual canvas, complete with bristle texture and paint application. A single photorealistic parking garage scene took roughly 700,000 strokes, according to Anthropic employee Jake Eaton.
Meituan has released the weights for LongCat-2.5, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model built for AI agents and trained entirely on Chinese hardware. On Terminal Bench, it scores 88.4 points, landing just behind Claude Opus 5. The sample deployment runs on 194 Huawei Ascend chips, and Meituan makes no mention of Nvidia GPUs.
Shield uses OpenAI to help IT technicians hand off work in legacy portals. Its Forge agents navigate systems so technicians can focus on issues needing their judgment.
Amazon has plans to build a vault of data on every product sold anywhere on the internet, even products Amazon doesn't sell, and make the information available through its own site, according to Reuters.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime V2 snapshots your initialized environment and restores it for each new session, so session start no longer grows with image size. This post explains how V2 starts a session, how to measure session start time, and four patterns to keep work off the first request.
Coding agents work in tasks, and the number that matters is cost per solved task, not price per token. In this post, you use the AWS CDK to deploy LiteLLM with the NVIDIA NeMo Switchyard routing plugin on Amazon Bedrock, then measure cost per solved task for a routed model group against single-model baselines.
Over the past several weeks, teams across Google and academic partner institutions have tackled open problems in math, science, and complex systems engineering that had remained open for years. We are making these agentic tools available in Antigravity’s /teamwork (alongside /boost and other agents) so that researchers and developers can apply them to their own work.
After launching its Dots AI agents platform earlier this year, OpenAI is launching a wallet for the agents. ChatGPT Wallet is rolling out starting today for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US aged 18 and older using a US billing address and "eligible US-issued American Express, Chase, Mastercard and Visa cards."
LangChain now claims 7,000 customers of its model and platform agnostic agent management tool LangSmith.
Anthropic's new Claude for Manufacturing plugin connects the AI directly to Autodesk Fusion, Oracle NetSuite, and Infor. Its 17 specialized skills let the AI draft quotes, compare suppliers, and place backup orders when deliveries are delayed, all after human approval. The plugin doesn't control physical machines yet, but Anthropic is separately developing the Model Hardware Standard for that.
OpenAI is taking a second shot at AI-powered shopping with ChatGPT Wallet after scrapping its first approach, Instant Checkout. Users register a card once and confirm each purchase through Face ID or a fingerprint, while actual card details stay hidden behind payment tokens. Rivals such as Anthropic, Meta, and xAI already have their agents making purchases.
We’re releasing XYBench, a benchmark of 8K+ questions that tests how AI assistants respond to requests based on misconceptions, such as asking how to thicken frosting that keeps sliding off cupcakes when the real problem is that the cupcakes are still too warm to frost. XYBench won the Best Resource Paper Award at EMNLP 2026.
OpenAI has launched two security products under its Daybreak brand.
Meta's AI agent Muse can now call businesses on behalf of paying US subscribers, handling everything from cable providers to restaurants. The agent already has over 10 million users, according to Meta's AI chief Alexandr Wang.
Introducing ChatGPT Wallet, a secure way for agents in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and dots to complete purchases with user approval and existing card protections.
ChatGPT Wallet lets AI agents shop and check out on users' behalf, starting with a limited rollout to U.S. Pro subscribers.
Normally, the products I test don't offer to help me write up my experience with them. Duet is different. Claude Duet is Anthropic's AI agent for consumers, the latest attempt by an AI company to try to convince us that agents can be useful for people who don't write code.
ElevenAI is a new meeting notetaker and dictation app aimed at teams and enterprises.
ArtCraft used AI to rewrite Photoshop as open source software. For CEO Brandon Thomas, the vision is even bigger: to take back the internet!
Built primarily on OpenAI models, Amplitude’s proactive product agent, Wave, identifies what to build, helps teams ship changes with coding agents, and measures the impact.
Agent skills capture repeatable engineering work in files teams can review and reuse, while tools, project context, and permissions remain specific to the host that runs them.
Muse's AI can now place outbound calls to U.S. businesses — but it's not free.
What's new in research at Microsoft? Host Anson Ho explores the latest, including AI-powered universal translation, a breakthrough in a 31-year-old mathematics challenge, and advances making AI coding agents faster and more efficient.
Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen replaces the Flash series, but benchmarks suggest it also makes the pricier Argon obsolete. On the independent Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Hydrogen nearly matches Claude Sonnet 5.5 for less money but costs about 2.5 times more per task than GPT-6.1 Sol and still falls short on agentic coding.
Anthropic is adding Claude directly to video calls. Claude Meetings joins Google Meet sessions and creates documents, whiteboards, and meeting notes in real time. The feature launches in beta for Team and Enterprise plans, with more platforms coming later.
Natera built SWARM, an agentic AI system on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that captures institutional lab-operations knowledge and deploys it at scale. This post walks through the full architecture, from knowledge base construction to deployment and evaluation, delivering about 130x faster first response and 96.2% automated coverage across support tickets.
Built primarily on OpenAI models, Amplitude’s proactive product agent, Wave, identifies what to build, helps teams ship changes with coding agents, and measures the impact.
Armed with a team of AI agents, Google researcher Pietro Miotti claimed earlier this week to have discovered a potentially unmapped Maya site in Mexico. There was just one problem: The site had already been discovered and was published in an academic journal last year.
Google says its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model can give more helpful answers to complex questions, including "questions with multiple parts, hard-to-understand typos, or highly specific requests." The new model can break down your questions and address each part in its responses.
Hydrogen brings cutting-edge intelligence to everyone. Today, we’re introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen, bringing cutting-edge intelligence to everyone — with speed and efficiency for everyday coding and agentic workflows.
AI agents now run multi-step workloads for hours and act on behalf of users, raising the bar for secure, scalable agent compute. Learn how the next generation of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime delivers hardware-isolated sessions with faster starts, more compute, usage-based billing, and isolation that now extends to your data.
Comparing per-token prices hides the real cost of running a model on Amazon Bedrock. This post shows how to calculate the true cost per task across four hidden cost drivers, reduce it with caching, routing, and output constraints, and prove agent ROI with human baselines, holdout experiments, and a five-dimension scorecard.
Shoppers using AI chatbots to research products or find places to buy items could be directed to imposters and other risky websites, a new study found.
The airline said it will not allow customers to use AI agents to book flights and manage reservations.
Nectar's new AI agent automates influencer marketing, helping brands discover creators, manage outreach and partnerships, and track campaign results.
Powered by Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Google's AI Mode is getting better at understanding complex queries, surfacing relevant links, and delivering richer visual responses.
Agents stall between demo and release when teams lack a repeatable way to measure how good an agent is and whether the last change helped.
Learn how to expose an Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base to AI agents as MCP tools through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway while keeping per-user access control. A request interceptor injects verified identity, Policy in AgentCore validates it independently, and a resource-based policy restricts direct access to the knowledge base.
Build a composable, interoperable multi-agent system on AWS with the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol. A LangChain orchestrator on Amazon ECS communicates with a Strands agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore across organizational boundaries, using bidirectional, OAuth-authenticated calls, with neither side depending on the other's framework or SDK.
The migration guide in the amazon-bedrock skill helps you migrate a customer-managed Amazon Bedrock knowledge base to a Managed Knowledge Base. Your coding agent plans the move with read-only discovery, creates the new knowledge base or an infrastructure-as-code template alongside the original, and validates retrieval before you cut over.