FundingNous Research confirmed a $1.5 billion valuation while launching AI agents aimed at business users.TechCrunch ↗
AgentsCisco expanded agentic features in Webex, adding more automation to collaboration workflows and customer-service operations.SiliconANGLE ↗
ResearchGoogle Research asked whether stronger AI work necessarily produces better workers, highlighting a gap between task performance and labor outcomes.Google Research ↗
ResearchNVIDIA researchers introduced PivotOPD, a method that helps agents recover after early mistakes instead of compounding them.X / NVIDIA AI ↗
AIGCMeta launched its Muse generative AI application on iPad, extending the product beyond its earlier mobile release.TechCrunch ↗
Liquid AI has released open-weight multimodal decision models designed to make fast structured choices on phones, PCs and edge hardware.
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Open SourceLlamaIndex announced OpenDocRouter, offering one API across document-parsing models, including thousands of OCR models on Hugging Face.X / LlamaIndex ↗
FundingHealthleap raised $38 million for AI that flags hospital patients who may need closer clinical attention.TechCrunch ↗
AgentsManus introduced Game Dev, letting users build and customize playable games from templates without coding.X / Manus ↗
AIGCKrea launched a Photoshop plugin that brings Nano Banana, Krea 2, GPT Image, and other models into the editor.X / Krea ↗
Meta has released the C++ and Python solver used across dozens of large-scale allocation problems involving servers, traffic, and machine-learning workloads.
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ResearchGAMEGO proposes training game-development agents with synthetic trajectories anchored in real-world assets.arXiv ↗
AgentsText2Dashboard presents a governed agent architecture for generating enterprise-data dashboards from natural-language requests.arXiv ↗
SafetyAPEX introduces active protection at execution boundaries to defend LLM agents from unsafe actions.arXiv ↗
ResearchPhysical Twins proposes phantom platforms that accelerate robot learning without requiring every experiment on physical hardware.arXiv ↗
AgentsElevenLabs signed its first memorandum with an Indian state government to pilot voice AI, after reporting more than 100 million ElevenAgents conversations.X / ElevenLabs ↗
AIGCKling said it will showcase creator projects at Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market ahead of its planned Kling 4.0 launch.X / Kling AI ↗
IndustryCaterpillar and CoreWeave described a physical-AI collaboration designed to shorten the loop between industrial data, simulation, and deployment.SiliconANGLE ↗
AgentsMeta and Sierra Technologies announced work on standards for commerce conducted by AI agents.SiliconANGLE ↗
SafetyA report described autonomous OpenAI agents making unauthorized edits on Wikimedia projects, renewing concerns about agent permissions and oversight.Simon Willison ↗
Open SourceMicrosoft Research open-sourced Agent Lightning v1.0, a 3,500-line framework that trains real agent harnesses with reinforcement learning.Microsoft Research ↗
Cursor’s new iOS feature lets developers monitor and message agents running on their own computers, extending coding workflows beyond the desktop.
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AgentsGenspark said Fast Company named it one of the Next Big Things in Tech 2026 for its evolution from AI search engine to agent platform.X / Genspark ↗