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CARES 4.0 launches in Hong Kong: CAS's CAIR introduces a multimodal clinical agent system

The Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) at the Hong Kong Institute of Science and Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, launched CARES 4.0, a multimodal clinical agent system, at the 4th Hong Kong Embodied Intelligence and Medical Technology Forum. Built on the Harness agent framework, it uses in-house foundation models for CT, MRI, ultrasound, endoscopy, and EEG, and has been validated at several top-tier hospitals. The CARES 4.0 website is open. Its framework and general toolkit are available, medical toolkits are being released in stages, and its in-house open-source ultrasound and surgical-video models will be integrated and made freely available.

StepFun's first foundation-model-native agent phone, STEPX Neo, to launch on October 13

StepFun Terminal will hold a 'Ready Builder One' launch event in Shanghai on October 13 to introduce its first foundation-model-native agent phone, STEPX Neo. The model, operating system, and hardware were all designed natively for agents. The event will also announce the company's latest ecosystem partnerships.

Artcraft uses Claude Opus 5.5 to create open-source alternatives to seven Adobe apps

Artcraft shifted from controllable AI image and video editing tools to an open-source app suite. Using Claude Opus 5.5, it recreated the interfaces and tools of Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro in Rust, and offers WebAssembly versions that run in a browser.

OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 and Intelligent UI in ChatGPT for everyone

OpenAI says GPT-6 and Intelligent UI are now rolling out in ChatGPT for everyone, offering fast, interactive answers and tools for users’ tasks. Mark Chen encourages users to try Intelligent UI, saying every ChatGPT completion now has the potential to create a custom UI and calling it phenomenal for learning new things. https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2107894997538525580

Microsoft unveils AI PC with Nvidia RTX Spark chip and redesigned Windows 11

At a Tech Week event in San Francisco, Microsoft announced the specifications and prices for the new Surface Laptop Ultra. The two base models start at $2,600 and $3,700; optional memory and storage upgrades raise the price to as much as $5,900. Microsoft says the top configuration has sold out.

Build richer, more interactive plugins for ChatGPT. With plugin extensions, you can launch plugins from the sidebar, support @ mentions, and add file viewers. See how in this walkthrough with @coreyching:

Build richer, more interactive plugins for ChatGPT. With plugin extensions, you can launch plugins from the sidebar, support @ mentions, and add file viewers. See how in this walkthrough with @coreyching:

ChatGPT adds GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for custom interactive answers

ChatGPT can now generate a custom UI for you! https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2107894997538525580 In the quoted post, OpenAI says GPT-6 and Intelligent UI are rolling out in ChatGPT for everyone, offering fast, interactive answers, more visual explanations, and tools available on the spot.

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ChatGPT launches Intelligent UI, embedding charts and buttons in answers

OpenAI introduced Intelligent UI in ChatGPT, allowing answers to include interactive visual content such as charts, forms, and clickable buttons. The update is rolling out to all users alongside GPT-6.

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Microsoft enhances Copilot on Windows with Hybrid Intelligence

We’re supercharging Copilot on Windows with Hybrid Intelligence. With your permission, Copilot can tap into the context on your PC, take action for you, and use local models when it makes sense, giving you more capability while helping your tokens go further.

OpenAI shares progress on ChatGPT for Teens and introduces College Planner

OpenAI shared progress on ChatGPT for Teens, which is designed for users under 18 and automatically applies to accounts identified as belonging to minors, with protections on by default. The upcoming College Planner is for U.S. high school students planning to attend a four-year college and brings application requirements, deadlines, tasks, and financial-aid steps together. OpenAI also previewed new learning tools and announced support for college counselors and youth advocacy.

Microsoft Surface RTX Spark Dev Box opens for preorder at $5,999

Microsoft opened preorders for the high-end Surface RTX Spark Dev Box AI mini-PC for developers at about $6,000, with shipping starting in November. It uses Nvidia's Arm-based RTX Spark platform and 128 GB of unified memory, is optimized for local AI, and can run models with more than 120B parameters. Use cases include testing AI models, prototyping agents, and running AI coding tools locally.

Microsoft gives Copilot more control over Windows and local files

At a Windows and Surface event, Microsoft demonstrated an upgraded Copilot that can access local PC files and carry out actions in the operating system. Microsoft calls the approach Hybrid Intelligence.

Microsoft launches Surface Laptop Ultra starting at $2,599

At its Windows and Surface launch event in San Francisco, Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra. The base model, with an Nvidia RTX Spark Arm-based chip, an 8-core CPU, 24 GB of memory, and 512 GB of storage, starts at $2,599. It goes on sale October 16 and replaces the Surface Connect port with built-in magnetic USB-C charging.

Brief it. Let it work. Give it notes. All from the same chat window with Runway directly inside ChatGPT Astra. Get started at the link below.

Brief it. Let it work. Give it notes. All from the same chat window with Runway directly inside ChatGPT Astra. Get started at the link below.

Google opens SynthID Detector to the public, saying 180 billion images and videos carry watermarks

Google opened SynthID Detector to the public so anyone can check whether an image, video, or audio clip was generated by AI from Google or its partners. The tool detects invisible watermarks embedded by models such as Gemini, Veo, and Lyria, and supports JPG, PNG, MP4, and MP3 files.

GPT‑6 Instant and Intelligent UI in ChatGPT

Tibor Blaho highlights GPT‑6 Instant and Intelligent UI in ChatGPT, quoting @_awchen’s account of the UI’s release. @_awchen describes preserving nearly all the power of HTML while making interfaces feel fast and native to ChatGPT, alongside post-training gpt-6 to judge when an interface would help and what it should display or enable. The quoted author says the work required many prototypes and that the team is still figuring out some aspects.

OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 and Intelligent UI to all ChatGPT users

OpenAI announced that GPT-6 and Intelligent UI are rolling out to all ChatGPT users. Intelligent UI provides fast, interactive answers in ChatGPT, making everyday questions more visual and complex topics easier to understand, with interactive tools available directly in the current task.

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ChatGPT introduces Intelligent UI for fast, fully interactive answers

Greg Brockman introduces Intelligent UI, a new ChatGPT capability for answering quickly with fully interactive user interfaces. https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2107894997538525580 In the quoted announcement, OpenAI says GPT-6 and Intelligent UI are rolling out in ChatGPT for everyone, offering more visual answers, explanations of complex topics, and interactive tools for tasks.

The same story is shown in the picks as 《OpenAI 在 ChatGPT 全球上线 GPT-6 并推出 Intelligent UI》

OpenAI launches Intelligent UI with GPT-6, shifting ChatGPT toward visual interaction

OpenAI introduced a new interface called Intelligent UI, rolling it out starting Wednesday with the new GPT-6 model. Conversations now include more interactive elements such as buttons, custom calculators, interactive charts, and editable graphics.

The same story is shown in the picks as 《OpenAI 在 ChatGPT 全球上线 GPT-6 并推出 Intelligent UI》

Meta's Muse assistant arrives on iPad just one month after its mobile launch

Meta announced on Wednesday that its Muse assistant now has a dedicated iPad app, only a month after launching on iOS and Android on September 8. Sensor Tower estimates Muse has been installed more than 6.6 million times. The app can connect to users' accounts to handle email, meetings, and bills, and adds connectors for Asana, Canva, GitHub, and Zoom, as well as retail partners such as Best Buy and Walmart.

Satya Nadella Announces Local AI Models and Agent Features for Windows

Satya Nadella says Windows is entering a new chapter, with on-device AI models and agents that can work securely on users’ behalf. Announced highlights include MAI-Code-1.1 Flash, a 137B-parameter coding model with a 256K context window optimized to run on PCs, and GitHub Copilot handing off work to local models. Microsoft also announced Hybrid Intelligence, Code in Copilot, the MXC local sandbox for agent execution, and Surface Laptop Ultra powered by NVIDIA RTX Spark.

Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available in Cursor! On shorter requests, it costs 10x less than Claude Haiku 4.5. Turn it on in Cursor Settings > Models.

Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available in Cursor! On shorter requests, it costs 10x less than Claude Haiku 4.5. Turn it on in Cursor Settings > Models.

What's New in CUDA 13.4 https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1lJQRWNwlgWxE

What's New in CUDA 13.4 https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1lJQRWNwlgWxE

Radisson Hotel Group brings hotel discovery to ChatGPT

Radisson Hotel Group partnered with Accenture to build a ChatGPT plugin using OpenAI technology, helping travelers find, compare, and book hotels while planning a trip.

GitHub launches ModernBERT-based secret detection model and expands push protection

GitHub released a ModernBERT classifier fine-tuned with Microsoft Applied Sciences that uses code context to identify secrets without a fixed format. It can assess a batch of candidate secrets in 2 milliseconds and is said to more than double the number it can block.

SynthID Detector opens to all, including NVIDIA Cosmos watermarks

Google DeepMind's SynthID Detector is now available to everyone, letting users check whether online content was generated with Google AI or tools from industry partners including OpenAI, NVIDIA and Kakao, with Apple coming soon. NVIDIA AI said it watermarks content generated by NVIDIA Cosmos on build.nvidia.com, so anyone can upload that content to the detector and confirm it came from its models.

Microsoft Research open-sources Agent Lightning v1.0, a 3,500-line lightweight agent RL framework for training with real harnesses

Microsoft Research open-sourced Agent Lightning v1.0, a lightweight agent reinforcement-learning framework of about 3,500 lines. Its Harnessed Agentic RL approach lets the same agent harness used in deployment participate directly in reinforcement learning, without reimplementing the agent inside a training framework.

OpenAI adds College Planner, flashcards, and quizzes to ChatGPT for Teens and forms a teen AI council

OpenAI is bringing College Planner to ChatGPT for Teens to help students manage college applications, and is launching flashcards and quizzes. It has also formed a teen AI council to involve young people in shaping the future of AI.

Meta's AI agent Muse arrives on iPad

Meta's AI agent Muse gained native iPad support in the latest iOS update, making better use of the larger screen and iPadOS multitasking. The update also connects Muse to Canva, Dropbox, Figma, GitHub, Zoom, Asana, and Notion, and lets small-business owners set business goals so the agent can plan marketing and customer proposals on its own.

ChatGPT adds College Planner, a college application planning tool for Teens mode

OpenAI introduced College Planner for ChatGPT's Teens mode. It brings application requirements, deadlines, tasks, and financial-aid steps into one plan that students can update and ask ChatGPT about. The feature is coming 'soon' to U.S. students in grades 10–12 planning to attend a four-year college.

How Qlik builds trusted enterprise AI with Amazon Bedrock

Qlik built Qlik Answers on Amazon Bedrock, providing traceable enterprise question answering to more than 40,000 customers worldwide. Since becoming generally available in February 2026, its Discovery Agent has found more than 100,000 anomalies and outliers for customers.

OpenAI launches Decisions API to reduce complex evaluations to yes, no, or a single choice

OpenAI announced two updates to its API platform. The Decisions API can evaluate text, images, or both and is about 10 times faster than the Responses API. It is in public testing, with general availability coming soon.

Google launches Playground, letting everyday users make games with Gemini

Google released Playground, a browser-based AI platform where adult users in the U.S. can create games with text prompts and no programming. Users can iteratively adjust rules, physics, characters, and environments with AI and play the result immediately.

Google launches SynthID website, opening AI-generated content detection to everyone

Google launched a new website on Tuesday that lets anyone check whether an image, video, or audio clip was AI-generated. The tool had previously been available only to select journalists, media professionals, and researchers. The site supports image formats including JPG, PNG, and GIF; video formats including MP4, MOV, and WEBM; and audio formats including WAV, MP3, and FLAC. Detection is based on SynthID, which Google introduced in 2023.

Google Labs launches Playground, an AI game-creation platform

Google Labs launched Playground, an AI platform for creating games. Users can build browser games from simple text prompts without programming experience. Creators can choose genres such as trivia or racing, specify 2D or 3D and single-player or multiplayer, and describe mechanics and visual style. They can also upload assets for AI to adapt into game-ready art.

Google DeepMind opens SynthID Detector to everyone

Google DeepMind announced that SynthID Detector is now available to everyone for checking whether online content was generated by Google AI or tools from its industry partners. Partners include OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Kakao, with Apple expected to join. The site is https://synthid.com.

Google opens SynthID watermark checking to anyone via synthid.com

Google AI says its SynthID technology, which verifies whether an image, video, or audio file is AI-generated, is now accessible to anyone at synthid.com. The portal checks files watermarked by Google or industry partners including OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Kakao, with Apple coming soon. Google says it has watermarked 180 billion images and videos and more than 240,000 years of audio, handling 1 million verification requests daily.

Google upgrades SynthID detector and opens it worldwide

Google announced that its SynthID detector now supports watermarks embedded by all partners and launched the standalone website SynthID.com for public use. Previously, people outside Google's trusted tester group could check watermarks only by asking Gemini, and the detector recognized only Google's own version of SynthID; images watermarked by partners such as ChatGPT were not flagged.

Utopai X ranks second on Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard; PAI production platform is in real projects

On the latest Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard, Utopai X, a model from film company Utopai Studios, ranked second with 1,150 points, just seven points behind Alibaba's Wan 3.0. The ranking was based on blind votes by evaluators who did not know the models' names.

Ant Group's A-Fu weight-loss challenge takes a holiday hit: 600,000 participants gain more than 500,000 kg

During the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, 600,000 people participating in Ant Group's A-Fu 'Lose 100 million jin scientifically' campaign gained more than 1 million jin in total. More than 100,000 gained over 3 jin. Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, and Henan had the five largest increases. At the same time, another 650,000 participants lost over 1 million jin. Since the campaign began in late June, participants have lost 6.24 million jin in total.