Launches and updates of AI products, features, apps, tools, APIs and platforms.
At IROS, Sharpa unveiled three products developed entirely in-house: D01, an integrated dexterous-manipulation robot with tactile sensing; W02, a compact, lightweight dexterous hand with full tactile sensing; and AE01, a haptic data glove with high-fidelity exoskeleton feedback.
OpenAI has opened the next phase of the Codex Originals project, inviting developers, researchers, and creators to share real stories and projects made with Codex. Interested participants can submit their experience and project details through the form below.
GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol. Its stronger understanding of user intent has also given Basis more confidence using it in real-world workflows.
Hugging Face Hub has added an RL Environments filter that groups dataset repositories carrying the `rl-environment` tag, without requiring a new repository type, registry, or registration process.
Why it matters: Hugging Face is treating RL environments as tagged dataset repositories, offering a signal of how the cost of reusing environments across frameworks may change.
Simon Willison used Opus 5.5 to build a tool that checks any Bluesky profile for signs of an automated reply bot. Signals include replying within seconds of someone else's post, never posting original content or image links, replying only to users with larger followings, and using question marks in replies.
Unitary Quantum has debuted UnitarySpark, a heterogeneous-computing hardware platform, and opened the beta of UnitaryLab 2.5, a natural-language-driven quantum science platform. Inference, algorithm execution, and data storage all run on the local workstation, so experiment parameters do not need to be sent to the cloud.
Proaction used Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra to build, operate, and sell a modern fleet-management service, increasing sales by 60% and saving more than 75 hours.
Datacor embedded Amazon Quick Sight in its TrackAbout solution, giving industrial gas and welding distributors interactive dashboards and natural-language search so business users can query rental data without filing IT tickets. TrackAbout customers manage more than 725,000 invoices and 27.5 million assets each month. The new solution refreshes SPICE datasets on a schedule through a cross-cloud data pipeline and supports analyses of fleet utilization, billing anomalies, and revenue recovery.
Lowe's built Mylow and Mylow Companion with OpenAI models, having helped customers and employees answer over 25 million home improvement questions and move home improvement projects forward.
Wayfair uses OpenAI models to improve e-commerce customer service and product-catalog accuracy, automatically classifying support tickets and refining millions of product attributes at scale.
Simon Willison has released commit-rewriter 0.2. The source says it is related to Git but does not describe its specific features or changes.
GitHub Security Lab has released Fuzzing Taskflow, an autonomous fuzzing pipeline for C/C++ projects. Given a GitHub repository URL, it identifies entry points, analyzes the build system, writes a harness, runs AFL++, reads coverage reports and improves the harness, triages crashes, and produces vulnerability reports.
Why it matters: GitHub Security Lab hands harness writing, coverage analysis, and crash triage to an LLM agent, and has published the full implementation and instructions for running it.
On Wednesday, Meta unveiled voice-only Ray-Ban glasses without a camera, new Ray-Ban frames, a cheaper line of Meta glasses, and a new VR headset due next spring for $1,300. It weighs one-fifth as much as the Quest 3.
Remedy Entertainment's CONTROL Resonant has launched on GeForce NOW. Ultimate members can stream it at GeForce RTX 5080-class performance with DLSS 4, ray tracing, and up to 5K HDR, without a 100 GB local installation.
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@finkd just unveiled Muse Realtime Avatar, our real-time embodiment technology that turns Muse Realtime Voice into expressive, interactive avatars. Muse Realtime Avatar opens up a new way to interact in @Muse, starting with real-time conversations. 🧵👇 #MetaConnect
You can now add usage credits for paid cloud models without an Ollama subscription. Add usage credits and pay as you go. https://ollama.com/settings
ChatGPT Voice has been upgraded to work with integrations such as email, calendars, and Slack, and to connect to ChatGPT Work. On web and mobile, users can create documents, presentations, websites, and spreadsheets by voice, or handle complex tasks in the browser. Powered by GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna, the feature begins rolling out globally today with the latest app release.
Why it matters: With email, calendar, and Slack integrations and access to Work, ChatGPT Voice gives readers a way to assess which workflows can be handled through voice.
Simon Willison has published Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground, an interactive interface with a built-in API key for generating single-speaker or multi-speaker conversational audio, previewing it, and inspecting request and response details. Configurations can be saved in shareable URLs.
Now Gemini can connect with 13 new apps like @adobe, @squarespace, @onepeloton, and more. Instead of switching between tabs, you can now grow your business, design assets, and plan your workouts all in Gemini. 🧵
With GPT-6 Astra, invideo achieved more precise editing plans, tripled its color-grading and correction efficiency, and produced 50 custom effects in a single day.
Harvey uses GPT-6 Astra to produce legal drafts with clearer structure and closer alignment to context, allowing lawyers to focus on strategy.
Ringg's multilingual AI agents, built on GPT-5.6, can resolve up to 65% of customer calls across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web channels, at 90% lower cost than GPT-4.1.
Qwen has launched Qwen Intelligence with three state-of-the-art agents for mobile. The first, Mobile Planner Agent, handles task planning and decomposition, and is evaluated on MobilePA-Bench.
Why it matters: The official release gives benchmark results and access points for three mobile agents, helping readers assess the current capabilities of on-device agents.
ChatGPT Ads is expanding to Southeast Asia and Taiwan, bringing coverage to more than 60 countries and giving eligible businesses access to a wider audience.
GPT-6 improves prompt caching with higher cache-hit rates, new diagnostic tools, explicit breakpoints, and controls that can reduce latency and cost. These features help developers using GPT-6 improve cache efficiency and lower call overhead.
Simon Willison has released llm 0.36, an update to his LLM command-line tool and Python library. The source does not disclose specific changes.
I just realized Opus 5.5 can use Blender to make claymations with just a single prompt in claude dot ai now
Simon Willison has released llm-anthropic 0.29, an Anthropic-model plugin for the LLM tool ecosystem. The source does not disclose specific changes.
Simon Willison has released the `llm-typesafe` plugin, version 0.1a0, adding support for TypeSafe AI's new Jev model. Install it with `llm install llm-typesafe` and configure an API key.
Kimi has renamed Kimi WebBridge to Kimi Browser Extension. Users can chat with Kimi in the browser sidebar and ask it to browse pages or fill out forms. For repetitive tasks, they can record a sequence of actions once and save it as a skill for Kimi to run later. The extension is available at kimi.ai/products/kimi-browser-extension and the Chrome Web Store.
At ROSCon, NVIDIA released Isaac ROS 5.0 with new agent workflows and platform support to help developers build, customize, and deploy robotics applications faster.
Why it matters: The source lists Isaac ROS 5.0's agent skills and platform support, helping readers assess how much of the robotics development workflow can be automated.
Parallel uses GPT-6 Astra to help agents research and synthesize labor-market data, cutting both time and cost in half compared with its previous models.
Kimi K3 is now on Amazon Bedrock! Use Bedrock's access, encryption, and audit controls to run coding, document analysis, and extended agent workflows. Explicit prompt caching is supported. Start building with K3 on AWS 👉 https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-card-moonshot-ai-kimi-k3.html
Hugging Face has added GGUF support to Transformers. Users can select a GGUF checkpoint from the Hub and pass `gguf_file` to `from_pretrained` to generate locally, with no extra setup.
Why it matters: Hugging Face's official post explains how to load GGUF directly in Transformers and shares comparison results, helping readers judge whether to move their local-inference workflow.
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With GPT-6 Astra, Higgsfield AI launched a new video feature in a single day, making it easier for small businesses to create video ads and bringing new creative tools to market faster.
OpenAI Academy has added learning pathways for employees, developers, leaders, educators, and students to build and demonstrate practical AI skills.
V7 uses GPT-5.6 to turn scattered company files into agent-ready context for complex, traceable work, cutting costs by 78% while improving accuracy.
