AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s spatial-intelligence startup in an all-stock deal, bringing world-model research directly into its hardware strategy.
The $8.2 billion deal links frontier spatial-intelligence research to the strategic future of AI hardware.
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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 ↗
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 ↗
AIGCCoolpad launched a 699-yuan AI smart glasses with an 8-megapixel camera, Douyin livestreaming, video calls, and online translation.IT之家 ↗