Anthropic’s experimental MHS interface lets AI agents coordinate laboratory and manufacturing equipment through a common control layer.
MHS moves general-purpose agents beyond digital tools and begins defining how they may safely operate real scientific and industrial equipment.
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AgentsCursor Cloud Agents can now create web apps without external repositories, save code to Origin, preview it in-browser, and publish through Vercel.Cursor on X ↗
IndustryFormer Thinking Machines co-founder Barret Zoph joined Google as vice president of research, focusing on reinforcement learning and Gemini post-training.TechCrunch ↗
IndustryGoogle introduced Expert Intelligence, letting Gemini Notebook users interact with eligible books they own through Google Play Books.The Verge ↗
ResearchA Wharton study found small contextual changes could substantially alter product recommendations made by AI shopping agents.The Decoder ↗
Google’s experimental Earth AI agent discovers geospatial data, builds models and produces forecasts for health, food security and disaster risks.
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AgentsDatabricks previewed chart-to-JSON enrichment for Genie One, helping agents answer questions about numerical information embedded in PDF charts.Databricks on X ↗
FundingRunable raised $21 million to expand its AI-agent platform for building and operating small-business products, marketing, and growth workflows.SiliconANGLE ↗
AgentsReplit introduced Intelligent Model Routing, automatically selecting models for each Agent task by balancing quality, speed, and cost.Replit on X ↗
Google’s production-ready video model adds 40-second extensions, keyframe interpolation, low-cost previews and output upscaling to 4K.
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AgentsBolt added collaborative prompt queues, allowing teammates to view, modify, and submit queued instructions while its coding agent continues building.Bolt on X ↗
AgentsGoogle AI Mode added conversational flight-price tracking, points-and-miles comparisons, and hotel booking, with availability varying by region.Google ↗
Open SourceMilvus 3.0 introduced StructArray, enabling multiple embeddings such as video clips or document passages to remain searchable within one entity.Milvus on X ↗
Open SourceWeaviate 1.39 made Boost API and multi-target vector search generally available while previewing additional search and storage improvements.Weaviate on X ↗
Open SourceHugging Face unveiled Microduck, a $399 open-source robot whose behaviors can be trained in simulation and deployed directly to the hardware.TechCrunch ↗
AgentsPlaud unveiled AI recording earbuds paired with an eSIM-enabled case that provides an interface for speaking with AI agents.The Verge ↗
ModelsCohere released Parse 5, a 2.3-billion-parameter vision-language model that converts documents containing tables, forms, and images into structured Markdown.Cohere on X ↗
A cryptographically isolated evaluation keeps Gemini weights hidden from testers while preventing Google from seeing confidential benchmark prompts.
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IndustryMiniMax reported annual recurring revenue above $800 million, with enterprise customers contributing 80% of revenue.InfoQ 中文 ↗
AgentsHarper recreated the same AI-built application deployed on Vercel and reported performance differences reaching 14-fold in its tests.InfoQ 中文 ↗
AIGCMeshy previewed Meshy 7, claiming stronger alignment between uploaded source models and generated assets intended for 3D printing.Meshy on X ↗
AgentsWan published a builder guide explaining how creators can turn Wan-powered generation workflows into reusable agent skills.Alibaba Wan on X ↗
AIGCAlibaba launched a weekly Wan Skill Challenge rewarding three creators who package Wan-powered video workflows as reusable skills.Alibaba Wan on X ↗
AgentsMongoDB released its managed Atlas MCP server as a Claude Code plugin, enabling agents to query data and optimize vector search.MongoDB on X ↗
ModelsQwen Cloud priced Qwen3.8-Flash at $0.15 per million input tokens, $0.47 for output and $0.016 for cache hits.Qwen on X ↗
Conflicting reports say Nvidia has agreed, or is close, to acquire the central hub of the open-model ecosystem for $12.9 billion.
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ModelsQwen3.8-Flash became available through OpenRouter for coding assistants, agent workflows and long-video understanding.Qwen on X ↗
FundingChinese inference-platform startup Key Motion raised tens of millions of yuan and introduced a model-routing service positioned as a domestic OpenRouter.量子位 ↗
Open SourceQwen received day-zero TokenSpeed support covering its new GDN, QSA, N-gram embedding and FP8 architecture components.Qwen on X ↗
IndustryOpenAI launched commercial operations in Brazil, establishing a São Paulo team to work with businesses, developers, researchers and public institutions.OpenAI ↗
AgentsSiemens detailed an industrial AI agent that embeds the company’s engineering knowledge rather than merely wrapping a general-purpose language model.量子位 ↗
SafetyBill Gates warned that advanced AI could threaten humanity if governance and technical safeguards fail to keep pace with capabilities.SiliconANGLE ↗
FundingAI startup Instinct raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation following rapid viral adoption of its consumer product.TechCrunch ↗