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- Google Cloud Launches Spanner Queues: Putting Message Queues Inside Database Transactions to Make AI Agents More Reliable
- Claude Code Adds mods: TypeScript Functions in Plugins Change Its Behavior and Interface
- DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text via Apple Messages to order food
- Google launches skills in Gemini, set to gradually replace Gems
- AWS introduces Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Instances: AI agents can run for 14 days, use GPUs and collaborate on one machine
- Hugging Face launches the Open TTS Leaderboard to compare open-source text-to-speech and voice cloning models with objective metrics
- AWS: Claude on Amazon Bedrock can now run entirely inside Seoul and Singapore
- GPT-6.1 Sol Launches: New Sol Version in the API, Codex and ChatGPT Work, Not in Chat
- NVIDIA releases Kumo Tabular, an open tabular foundation model it says ranks first on four benchmarks
- Instinct founder says more than half of transactions on his AI agent platform are travel-related
- Marissa Mayer unveils Dazzle, an AI assistant that learns about you from your phone's photos
- Microsoft Research Introduces Quine, a Research-Only AI System for Studying Biology
- ProvenanceGuard: Multiverse Computing's method for checking whether AI agents credit facts to the right source
- Meta Launches Muse for Small Business: AI Agent Connects to Shopify, Slack, QuickBooks and Other Business Tools
- Rep. Ro Khanna presses DeepSeek, Alibaba and Moonshot AI on AI safety and calls for a US-China treaty
- Reco raises $55M to help companies find and control their AI agents as the security market gets crowded
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 Launches: Same List Price as Sonnet 5, Available in the API, on Cloud Platforms and in Claude.ai
- Wabi 2.0: AI app maker Wabi turns into a messaging app that builds apps for you
- Peak XV raises its Surge seed investment ceiling to $5 million per startup as the Series A bar rises, unveils 18-startup Surge 12 cohort
- xAI's Grok 4.7 AI model is now on Amazon Bedrock: what AWS says it offers businesses and developers
- AI is making hacking easier, and The Verge says local hospitals and banks aren't ready
- Meta launches Meta Enterprise Platform, its enterprise AI business, led by former MongoDB CEO CJ Desai
- Google Arts & Culture App Redesign Adds Conversational Search and Two AI Experiments
- H Company Releases Holo4, an AI Agent Model It Says Can Operate Screens, Code and APIs