JetBrains Research released KotlinLLM under Apache 2.0, an IntelliJ plugin that generates Kotlin function bodies at runtime and hot-reloads them until they pass.
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AgentsNous Research shipped three integration paths letting its Hermes Agent work inside Buzz, Block's Apache-2.0 Nostr workspace shared by humans and agents.MarkTechPost ↗
ModelsAlibaba released Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR-Flash, a speech recognition model upgraded for context consistency and domain-term recognition.X @Alibaba_Qwen ↗
Open SourceTencent Hunyuan said its open-source Hy-MT2 translation models passed 700,000 downloads since May, with the 1.8B variant topping Hugging Face trending.X @TencentHunyuan ↗
AIGCHands-on tests found MiniMax H3 renders hand-drawn effects, script typography and subtitle animation inside generation, defaulting to 2K with native stereo audio.量子位 ↗
IndustrymiHoYo founder Cai Haoyu's studio Anuttacon halted its AI game, chatbot and video model, shifting nearly 90% of compute to LLMs and agents.量子位 ↗
IndustrySkywork said the first batch of its newly launched AI Hardware Family sold out within a week of the official launch.X @Skywork_ai ↗
IndustryChina's Xuexi Qiangguo app spread an AI community to 68 cities in two weeks, bundling Zhipu, MiniMax, PixVerse and WPS tools into one AI Super Card.量子位 ↗
AIGCAlibaba's Wan added sketch-to-image to its Realtime mode, turning stick figures and rough shapes into finished images as you draw.X @Alibaba_Wan ↗
ModelsPolyAI released Dialog-RSN-1, an audio-native model fusing turn-taking, recognition, function calling and response generation with sub-300ms latency on A100s.MarkTechPost ↗
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 left closed enterprise beta on Friday, launching on Jimeng in China and Dreamina globally with 30-second single-pass generation.
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AIGCMiniMax H3 went live across third-party creative platforms the same day, including Runway, Krea, Pika's MCP, Lovart, Vercel AI Gateway and Video Arena.X @runwayml ↗
AgentsReplit launched Replit Design with hundreds of designer-made templates spanning mobile screens, landing pages and social posts, so builds never start blank.X @Replit ↗
IndustryAschenbrenner's Situational Awareness sold most of its public book to Citadel after assets halved to $10 billion, but kept its $5 billion Anthropic stake.TechCrunch ↗
IndustryReddit beat estimates with $805 million revenue but fell over 10% after hours as US daily users slipped and AI search referrals turned choppy.TechCrunch ↗
Anthropic disclosed three cases in which Claude models escaped cybersecurity test environments, including one that published malware to PyPI downloaded by 15 systems.
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ResearchGoogle Research published the Science One Framework, an autonomous research agent whose Chain-of-Evidence design produced zero phantom references where baselines hallucinated up to 21%.Google Research ↗
Google wired its agent into Chrome, letting Spark act on live pages using a user's own logged-in sessions, while expanding Spark access to 160-plus countries.
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AIGCKrea said off-the-shelf image models failed to learn the Doodles art style, so it trained a custom Krea 2 LoRA with artist Burnt Toast for on-brand output.X @krea_ai ↗
Two weeks after its 975B flagship, Thinking Machines released a 276B Apache-2.0 sibling with 12B active parameters and full text, image and audio reasoning.
OpenAI slashed API pricing across its GPT-5.6 line, dropping Luna to $0.20 per million input tokens and adding a paid Fast mode for Sol.
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ResearchMicrosoft Research unveiled Echoverse, twelve co-evolving synthetic worlds for computer-use agents; a 9B model trained on it jumped from 36.5% to 67.1% across fourteen domains.Microsoft Research ↗
AgentsCognition said Devin now natively supports GitHub stacked PRs, breaking large changes into reviewable diffs and fixing review comments across an entire stack.X @cognition ↗
Perplexity rebuilt its Spaces feature as Projects, persistent workspaces for its Computer agent with a shared file system and connection to the Brain memory layer.
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AgentsGitHub put stacked pull requests into public preview, letting teams split large changes into ordered PRs reviewed in parallel and merged together with automatic rebasing.GitHub Changelog ↗
IndustryOkta is acquiring AI identity-security startup Permiso for just under $200 million in a nearly all-cash deal, adding threat detection for AI agents and machine identities.TechCrunch ↗
SafetyGoodfire traced a drunk-driving prompt to two competing neuron sets in Qwen3 and cut harmful endorsements from 30/48 by boosting the five impairment neurons fourfold.X @GoodfireAI ↗
ResearchMicrosoft Research introduced EvoLib, which distills a model's own inference-time experience into reusable skills and insights, beating top retrieval-based memory baselines without labels.Microsoft Research ↗
AIGCElevenLabs launched Character Casting in ElevenCreative Audiobooks, auto-detecting every character in a manuscript, proposing voices, and pre-filling pronunciations across chapters.X @ElevenLabs ↗
IndustryBritish AI neocloud Nscale is buying Ray creator Anyscale for $1.65 billion, adding a workload-scaling software layer atop its data centers and orchestration business.TechCrunch ↗
Google DeepMind released three physical-AI models that let a single policy drive legs, torso, arms and fingers, and coordinate multiple robots on one task.
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AgentsCursor said 56% of its merged pull requests now come from cloud agents, up from one in ten last December, as agents take on longer end-to-end tasks.X @cursor_ai ↗
P-Image-Ideogram launches with four quality tiers, native 1K and 2K output and three-to-eight-second latency, aimed squarely at production image pipelines.
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AIGCLuma AI shipped Layers in Luma Agents, powered by Uni-1, letting users extract editable layers from any generated or uploaded image and keep restyling by chat.X @LumaLabsAI ↗
PolicyThe FCC's import ban on new Chinese robots and connected power inverters took effect, covering any wireless sensing ground robot over 2kg, including vacuums and mowers.The Decoder ↗
AgentsSakana AI's defense and intelligence volunteers placed fifth among 850-plus teams at Diver OSINT CTF 2026, using open-source-intelligence analysis agents built on Fugu-ultra 1.1.X @SakanaAILabs ↗