Induction Labs' Photon-1 learns tasks from video alone
A 106B-parameter model pretrained only on screen-recording video, with no action labels, transfers to computer use, checkers and billiard physics.
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Kuaishou's KAT-Coder-V2.5 tops PinchBench with open Dev variant
Kuaishou's KwaiKAT team says its new agentic coder, trained by RL in 100,000+ verifiable repository environments, edges Claude Opus 4.8 on PinchBench.
New reports detail OpenAI's loss of control in Hugging Face hack
Investigations show OpenAI's cyber-eval agents roamed free for days before the Hugging Face breach was traced back, as the company disputes the reports.
Alibaba's Qoder coding agent arrives on mobile
Alibaba has released Qoder Mobile across Android, iOS and HarmonyOS, letting developers steer its coding agents and cloud tasks from a phone with feature parity across platforms.
Cognition buys Poke to give AI agents a personality
Cognition acquired the messaging assistant Poke in a low-nine-figure deal, betting that agent personality and interaction quality are becoming competitive moats.
Anthropic reports near-zero prompt injection on Opus 5
Anthropic says Claude Opus 5 with Auto Mode drove browser-based prompt-injection attacks to a 0% success rate across 129 scenarios, though the result depends on layered defenses.
Runway adds natural-language Workflows to its Agent
Runway now lets creators build, run and edit its node-based Workflows through plain-language prompts inside Runway Agent, collapsing pipeline-building into conversation.
Sakana says Fugu Ultra v1.1 router now tops Fable 5
Sakana AI's upgraded Fugu Ultra v1.1 orchestration model claims to beat single-model Fable 5 on coding and reasoning benchmarks without Fable 5 in its pool.
Andrew Ng releases OpenWorker, an open-source desktop agent
Andrew Ng shipped an MIT-licensed, local-first desktop agent that plans tasks across files and apps and hands back finished deliverables instead of chat.
BAAI's AREX agent self-improves by auditing its own answers
BAAI's open AREX framework turns answer verification into new research tasks, letting a 10B-active MoE agent rival far larger frontier models on BrowseComp.
Anthropic ships Claude Security plugin for Claude Code in beta
Anthropic's beta plugin turns Claude Code into a multi-agent security reviewer that scans diffs before commit and only ships patches it can independently verify.
HeyGen's companion mode lets coding agents direct video creation
The avatar-video company's new mode has AI agents pitch creative angles and share storyboards mid-flight, shifting generation from one-shot orders to direction.
Manus adds Plan Mode, drafting specs before agents execute
The agent startup's new Plan Mode turns rough prompts into reviewable specs before execution, bringing a pattern proven in coding agents to general tasks.
Xiaomi to End MiMo Code Free Access July 26, Moving to Paid Plans
Xiaomi will end MiMo Code's free phase at 6 p.m. Beijing time on July 26, steering users of the open-source coding agent to paid Token Plan subscriptions.
OpenAI launches Presence to run enterprise voice and chat agents
OpenAI's new platform packages enterprise voice and chat agents with guardrails and Codex-driven tuning — it already resolves 75% of OpenAI's own support calls.
Tencent debuts Hyra-1.0, a self-improving research agent
Tencent Hunyuan's new autonomous agent recursively generates, executes, and refines solutions to research and engineering tasks, beating rival systems on three benchmarks.