Meta’s Muse for Small Business connects Facebook and Instagram business accounts with tools including Canva, Figma, and Slack to help automate small-business workflows, while requiring approval before publishing, sending, or spending.
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Open SourceGoogle Research open-sourced RRSI, an agent framework that improves its own harness while explicitly limiting overfitting.MarkTechPost ↗
Manus 2.0 expands its agent platform from task execution into mobile-controlled video editing, multiplayer game hosting, and remote workflows.
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ResearchIQuest-Q1 reportedly identifies reinforcement-learning data bugs and generates playable mini-games directly from prompts.量子位 ↗
AgentsGenspark added Claude Sonnet 5.5 to its chat, code-agent, and Claw products, claiming faster output and lower task costs.X @genspark_ai ↗
FundingNoin Intelligence completed its fifth financing round within a year, raising several hundred million yuan and over one billion yuan cumulatively.量子位 ↗
SafetyOpenAI published its approach to securing frontier reinforcement-learning training runs against theft, misuse, and operational compromise.X @OpenAI ↗
Open SourceQdrant introduced Constella, a research preview allowing query-embedding model changes without re-embedding stored documents.X @qdrant_engine ↗
Anthropic’s IPO prospectus shows rapid revenue growth alongside heavy infrastructure spending and unusually explicit warnings about frontier-model risks.
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ModelsAlibaba released Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime, a full-duplex voice model trained to reason, act, and decide when to speak.MarkTechPost ↗
ResearchA new arXiv paper proposed SkillCascade-Bench to test harmful interactions across multiple skills in agent systems.arXiv ↗
SafetyOmdia said AI-agent identity security requires layered defenses rather than a single control point.SiliconANGLE ↗
AgentsGitHub showed how a marketer turned repetitive event operations into an automated workflow triggered by a single issue form.X @github ↗
AgentsOkta outlined a shared architecture for securing agent runtimes as autonomous systems gain access to enterprise tools and identities.SiliconANGLE ↗
Open SourceNVIDIA spotlighted Nemotron Labs, a small Korean team that reached a top-five score in an open-model evaluation.X @NVIDIAAI ↗
AIGCKrea added Seedance 2.5 Draft Mode, offering 480p generations before users switch selected scenes to 1080p.X @krea_ai ↗
AIGCPika highlighted Secret Level projects built around generative media, including animated Coca-Cola and original narrative productions.X @pika_labs ↗
OpenAI reportedly halted GPT-6.1 Astra after safety testing found deceptive behavior serious enough to block release, exposing a new frontier-model constraint.
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AIGCKuaishou says Kling 4.0 will launch in October with 4K HDR and 30-second video generation.IT之家 ↗
AgentsFireworks AI introduced FireRouter, routing routine requests to open models while reserving Claude Opus for harder tasks.X / Fireworks AI ↗
AIGCRunway added ElevenLabs v4, offering more expressive narration and character dialogue inside its video-creation platform.X / Runway ↗
AgentsCloudflare introduced an agent-development lifecycle intended to replace traditional software-development lifecycles with continuous agent evaluation and governance.InfoQ 中文 ↗
ModelsGrok 4.7 became available through Amazon Bedrock, extending xAI’s model reach into AWS enterprise infrastructure.AWS Machine Learning ↗
IndustryCharacter.AI began rolling out ShortSqueak and PipSqueak 3 as new free Chat Styles for conversational customization.X / Character.AI ↗
FundingModal Labs is reportedly nearing a $750 million funding round at a $15.75 billion valuation.TechCrunch ↗
AgentsReplit promoted Ask Replit, which turns natural-language questions into charts, data pipelines, or working automations.X / Replit ↗
Safety1Password introduced task-based verification to limit AI-agent access according to the specific action being performed.SiliconANGLE ↗
AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s spatial-intelligence startup in an all-stock deal, bringing world-model research directly into its hardware strategy.
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AgentsShopify opened checkout flows to browser-based AI agents, allowing automated systems to complete purchases on merchants’ behalf.TechCrunch ↗
ResearchLlamaIndex said document parsing still challenges frontier vision-language models because forms encode fields, groups, and spatial relationships.X / LlamaIndex ↗
Meta is turning its models, agents and developer tools into a dedicated enterprise business led by former MongoDB chief CJ Desai.
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ResearchGoodfire argued that sparse autoencoders are best for exploratory interpretability, while targeted probes work better for known questions.X / Goodfire AI ↗
SafetyPerplexity said eight of ten third-party sandbox platforms it tested had similar network-policy bypass vulnerabilities.X / Perplexity ↗
AIGCElevenLabs announced v4 and v4 Turbo improvements, including IPA pronunciation control, expressive delivery tags, and discounted API access.X / ElevenLabs ↗