TechCrunch tested Google’s Gemini Spark as a 24/7 AI assistant for inbox summaries and local event planning; the RSS snippet does not disclose pricing, release timing, or why Google made it a separate product.

Google AI Developers released Nano Banana Pro and Nano Banana 2, mapped to gemini-3-pro-image and gemini-3.1-flash-image. The post says both are production-ready through the Gemini API, but does not disclose pricing, benchmarks, or runtime limits.

Anthropic is testing a Claude AI Fluency scorecard that analyzes Chat, Cowork, and Claude Code history against 11 observable behaviors, with an 11-point maximum score. The underlying study used 9,830 anonymized multi-turn conversations, and iteration appeared in 85.7% of high-quality conversations.

Renmin University of China and Zhizhi Institute open-sourced ClawGym, a Claw Agent framework with 13.5K synthetic executable tasks, 200 benchmark tasks, model checkpoints, training data, and training code; ClawGym-30B-A3B scores 56.82 on ClawGym-Bench and exceeds Qwen3-235B-A23B in the reported evaluation.

Codex can now create, search, organize, and pin conversation threads inside the Codex interface, and start worktrees for parallel tasks.

OpenAI added Windows computer-use support for Codex, letting users start, review, and guide tasks on a Windows PC through the ChatGPT mobile app; the post states this is an early experience and does not disclose pricing or rollout scope.

OpenRouter now supports apply_patch, a server-side tool that lets any model propose file edits through the Responses API using V4A diffs, covering file creation, updates, and deletion, with OpenRouter validating diff syntax on the server.

The Verge tested Adobe Firefly AI Assistant in beta. It can operate Adobe design apps as a conversational middleman, rather than only generating images or video. The post says it explains edit steps clearly, but the results were not impressive. The RSS snippet does not disclose pricing, release timing, or the full list of supported apps.

Xiaomi’s large model application team open-sourced ControlFoley, a controllable video Foley model supporting three tasks: text-guided video dubbing, text-controlled video dubbing, and reference-audio-controlled video dubbing, with code, model weights, and an online demo released.

Tencent Games unveiled Code Craft, an AI game creation platform that turns natural-language prompts into runnable 2D or 3D games, with a planning knowledge base, Skill system, visual tuning panels, and more than 20,000 free cloud assets; the post does not disclose release timing, pricing, model details, or supported engines.

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-8B-A1B with a 128K context window, 38T pre-training tokens, large-scale reinforcement learning, doubled vocabulary for non-Latin tokenization, and availability on Hugging Face.

Anthropic announced a $65B Series H at a $965B post-money valuation, disclosed a $47B revenue run rate, and released Claude Opus 4.8 plus Claude Code Dynamic Workflows as a research preview for parallel subagent orchestration.

Cursor’s report says developers’ weekly code output rose from about 3.6K to 8.6K lines, while AI agents increased tool calls per session by roughly 30%.

Peter Steinberger posted one month of usage showing 7.6 million requests and 603 billion tokens, with CodexBar estimating a $1.3 million value under preset rates rather than his actual spend as an OpenAI employee.

StepFun released the open-source Step 3.7 Flash model with a 198B-parameter MoE architecture, about 11B active parameters, a 256K context window, and a 67.1 score on ClawEval-1.1.

Skill distillation has Opus 4.7, GPT-5.1, and Gemini 3 Pro write standardized SKILL.md procedure files, while local Qwen 35B and Gemma 26B models execute those files step by step.

Latent Space discusses async coding agents with Cognition’s Walden Yan and OpenInspect’s Cole Murray, citing Devin’s 7x merged PR growth and an increase from 16% to 80% of commits across Cognition repos.

Anthropic released Opus 4.8 with a Dynamic Workflows tool for coordinating swarms of subagents. The RSS snippet does not disclose pricing, context window size, benchmarks, or a rollout schedule.

Perplexity Computer is now available in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook, letting users access Computer from the app sidebar to coordinate work, draft documents, model data, create presentations, and handle email.

CNN sued Perplexity in a New York court on Thursday, alleging its AI answer tools generate “verbatim” copies of CNN work and provide users with information locked behind CNN’s subscription wall.

AutoWebWorld synthesized 29 web environments, 875 pages, and 11,663 verified trajectories at about $0.04 per trajectory, using FSM-defined states, preconditions, and transitions to verify GUI agent tasks instead of human labeling or an LLM judge.

Mistral AI released the public preview of Search Toolkit, an open source framework that combines data ingestion, retrieval, and evaluation behind shared interfaces for cloud, on-premises, or edge deployment.

Mistral upgraded Le Chat into a unified AI agent called Vibe, with one license covering both office work and coding. Existing chats, settings and plans all carry over. Work Mode supports enterprise knowledge search, structured data analysis, document and report generation, scheduled multi-step tasks and reusable skills, and connects to Google Workspace, Outlook, SharePoint, Slack, GitHub and more.

Zhou Zhiwei describes a project-management setup that uses two Git repositories, an AI coding assistant, Shell, and Python to replace at least 80% of manual weekly-update chasing, data moving, chart generation, and engineering-metrics reporting.

Mistral AI integrated the Emmi AI team and launched a physics AI foundation model for industrial engineering, with the post saying it can learn from geometry, boundary conditions, or measurement data and predict full physical fields on a single GPU in seconds.

YouTube is rolling out an AI custom video feed that uses a user-entered prompt or suggested options to build a personalized homepage feed around interests, moods, or topics; the feature supports English first and is available to signed-in users in the US on YouTube’s mobile app and desktop site.

Kirkland & Ellis plans to spend $500mn building its own AI technology platform for the “collective intelligence” of its lawyers; the post does not disclose model architecture, vendors, or launch timing.

xAI released Grok Build 0.1 in public beta through the xAI API for agentic coding tasks, with throughput above 100 tokens per second and pricing at $1 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens.

Cognition AI raised over $1 billion at a $26 billion pre-money valuation, while annualized revenue grew from $37 million to about $492 million in one year, and Devin is positioned as an autonomous junior engineer that can plan, test, and deploy through multi-step workflows.

OpenAI supports ChatGPT, Codex, and the Responses API connecting to internal MCP servers through outbound-only HTTPS, while teams keep those servers inside private networks.

Anthropic published a zero-trust framework for enterprise autonomous AI agents, saying frontier models compress vulnerability exploitation from months to hours; the post outlines a three-tier architecture, an eight-stage rollout process, and threats including prompt injection, tool poisoning, and memory poisoning.

Google Pay introduced a universal commerce protocol and a new MCP server for AI agents to manage integrations and analyze trends, while Android updates add dynamic callbacks for faster checkout, WebView payments in social apps, cross-device biometric authentication, and new transaction signals.

Robby Stein discussed Google Search’s move toward an AI-native mode at Google I/O, covering AI Mode, multi-turn query decomposition, TPU infrastructure costs, source-link selection, and publisher traffic tension, but the post does not disclose specific pricing, traffic numbers, or rollout conditions.

Robinhood opened its trading platform to AI agents: traders can create a separate account, allocate a specific amount of money, and let the agent buy and sell stocks, while Robinhood warns agentic trading can cause the loss of the entire investment.

Runway launched an MCP server that lets compatible agents such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor generate images and videos inside chat interfaces, with access to Gen-4.5, Seedance 2.0, GPT Image 2, Kling 3.0, and Nano Banana Pro.

Robinhood lets AI agents read and analyze users’ portfolios and suggest investments, but order placement is limited to the pre-loaded balance in a dedicated wallet.

Lv Ruofan proposes the Agent Room model: multiple agents share context, a task ledger, Memory, Runtime, and Artifacts, and two software-engineering cases show the system moving from workflow automation toward collaborative judgment rather than predefined task routing.

Google said regular Gemini users more than doubled in one year to 900 million, while ad revenue rose 16% to $77 billion last quarter, and its Siri partnership with Apple will place Gemini inside future iPhone assistant features.

OpenRouter raised a $113 million Series B led by CapitalG, lifting its valuation to $1.3 billion; the platform processes 25 trillion tokens per week, about 100 trillion per month, and provides one API for more than 400 models.

Anthropic announced two Claude Managed Agents capabilities at Code w/ Claude London: self-hosted sandboxes in public beta and MCP tunnels in research preview, with Spotify, Base44, and Legora already using them.