Your AI agents can now control your Google Home devices
Google is launching early access to a new MCP server for Google Home, allowing AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and others to control connected devices, review camera summaries, and access smart home activity using natural language.
Threads’ new features let podcasters promote shows and reach listeners
Threads is rolling out new tools for podcasters, including profile cards, episode links, transcripts, guest tags, posting reminders and audience insights, as Meta looks to make the X rival a bigger hub for podcast promotion and discussion
My guest on this past week’s Live with Tim O’Reilly was Emmanuel Ameisen, a researcher on Anthropic’s AI interpretability team. I’d heard him give a short talk at Foo Camp on Anthropic’s research into what is going on inside an LLM while it is processing, and I wanted him to reprise the talk and the...
Explore new AI-powered advertising experiences from OpenAI, including Sponsored Agents, tools for marketers, and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify.
The AI boom is becoming a materials challenge. As AI pushes computing into new territory, the materials behind that infrastructure are becoming just as crucial as the algorithms running on it. Semiconductors and data centers are approaching physical limits around performance, thermal management, ele...
Prior Labs Releases TabPFN-3.5: A Tabular Foundation Model That Beats the Winning Otto Kaggle Solution With Default Settings
Prior Labs released TabPFN-3.5, a tabular foundation model pretrained only on synthetic data that beats Otto's winning solution.
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Nums AI Releases Causilo: A Tabular Foundation Model That Tops TabArena Among Single Models
Nums AI has released Causilo, a pretrained tabular foundation model for classification and regression with a scikit-learn interface. It posts the top TabArena Elo among single models, ahead of Google's TabFM and LG's EXAONE Tabular. The code is Apache-2.0, while weights are licensed for non-commerci...
Inside NVIDIA’s cuDNN Graph API: Fusion, Autotuning, and Plan Reuse with cuDNN Frontend
Learn how to leverage NVIDIA’s cuDNN Frontend Graph API to build custom kernel fusions, autotuning engine configurations, FP8-style epilogues, scaled dot-product attention, dynamic shapes, and CUDA graph captures. This practical tutorial demonstrates how to optimize deep learning computations direct...
Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking for Production Grade Voice Agents
Google has released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its most advanced live dialogue models to date. The models execute tools and API calls in the background while the conversation keeps flowing, process live visual inputs, and switch between 97 languages mid conversation. Exte...
Meta now lets AI agents handle the boring parts of WhatsApp Business setup
A new WhatsApp Business MCP server lets developers use AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT to handle setup, messaging templates, testing, and troubleshooting.
Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents
Their startup, Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) has raised $40 million in a Series A lound led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from First Harmonic.
Meta Introduces ZGateway: A Stateless Proxy Tier That Unifies ZippyDB Traffic and Handles Over 1 Billion Operations Per Second
Meta engineering team introduced ZGateway, a proxy tier that now sits between client applications and ZippyDB, the Meta’s most widely used key value store. ZippyDB backs product metadata, counters, and configuration at billions of operations per second. ZGateway started as a fix for connection spraw...
Agent-net Open Sources Webagent: A Go Harness That Turns Any Website into a Guarded AI Agent
Agent-net, the team building an agent-to-agent marketplace where AI agents discover, trust, and pay each other, has released Webagent, an open source harness for standing up public-facing business agents. So, basically you give it your website, get an agent, and let it talk to other agents. Instead ...
Reward AI Releases OM-1: A Robot Policy Trained on Human Demonstrations Only, With No Teleoperation or On-Robot Data
Reward AI has released OM-1 (Omnibody Model 1), a general-purpose manipulation policy trained entirely on human demonstrations captured with a 7-DoF wearable glove, with no teleoperation or on-robot data. The policy runs on industrial arms and humanoids at human speed, learns a new task from under 3...
The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?
This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for a brake on the pace of development of LLMs. Amodei cites the looming dangers he sees from the techn...
Microsoft’s new AI ‘code of conduct’ tells models not to hack systems or trick humans
The code of conduct lays out general principles that Microsoft AI models should uphold — supporting humans rather than replacing them, for instance, and accelerating human flourishing — as well as specific safety constraints meant to implement those principles.