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Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils Beam, its first open-weight model, which it says rivals GLM-5.2 on reasoning with far less inference compute. Weights are due this month.

Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain separate, with permission required before personal agents share information or take action.

TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products.

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Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.

Safeworld is building digital humans to make sure robots don't hurt the real ones.

AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.

On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.

By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

Meta wants Muse in your TV and your toaster, so it's giving the code away for free.

Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.

Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.

With all the talk about how AI might one day ill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people, psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created "crash test dummies" to solve that.

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OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library.

Amazon Web Services' Strand Labs has released the latest Jevalike decision model, Strands Decider 2B.

Shopify’s new Canvas site builder lets merchants create and customize their online stores by chatting with its AI agent Sidekick, while watching the changes happen in real time.

The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It's a bet that consumers will increasingly use agents instead of downloading apps.

Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work.

Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.

OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.

Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.