OpenAI has built a new sandbox mode for Codex on Windows using Microsoft’s Execution Containers (MXC), offering faster setup, stronger network enforcement, and granular file access controls. Requires a compatible Windows 11 device. https://t.co/VsMQe3gl1P
Alexa Plus is the best smart home assistant we've tested so far. It understands natural commands like "I'm cold," cuts weather query and timer response times from 10–15 seconds in 2025 to 3–5 seconds, and can even accept uploaded photos of recipes to help with cooking. But it performs immaturely in personal assistant scenarios, full-screen ads on the Echo Show seriously disrupt the experience, and the Echo Dot Max is the best choice for running Alexa ad-free.
One year after launching the ZeroFlap optical module, Credo is pushing product bandwidth from 800G to 1.6T. Its latest-generation all-DSP module, Cardinal 802, for the first time combines the 200G/lane Cardinal DSP, the Kfir200 SiPho PIC obtained through the acquisition of DustPhotonics, and the PILOT diagnostic platform.
Built by teams including Huawei 2012 Labs and Huawei Cloud together with university and industry developers, the open-source AI agent platform openJiuwen has launched and open-sourced its enterprise-grade AgentOS. It brings multi-agent collaboration, self-evolution, compute affinity, and enterprise security and reliability into a unified foundation.
Simon Willison's token-counting CLI, ttok, has been updated to 0.4. The release fixes a Click warning, updates CI, and adds --list-models to list available models. The tool is based on OpenAI's open-source tiktoken library and can be run directly with uvx, for example: `cat file.txt | uvx ttok`.
LegalOn reduced its estimated daily Codex costs by 65% while maintaining development speed. It matches Astra, Sol, and Luna to tasks and manages budgets strategically.
NVIDIA explains how its developers use frontier AI agents, including GPT-6 Astra, with Omniverse libraries to build and refine simulations through natural-language instructions, human review and iterative testing. Examples span warehouse scaling, cable routing, robot asset preparation, autonomous-driving workflows and sensor-based digital twin refinement. One warehouse simulation sustained 30 frames per second with 80 conveyors, 40 arms and 800 boxes during a two-minute test; a robot CAD example used estimated physical properties that were not calibrated against the real robot.
NVIDIA developers are using frontier models such as GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5 to power the Omniverse libraries and build simulation apps from natural-language instructions. Examples include a warehouse humanoid-robot simulator, a Market Street autonomous-driving test environment, digital-twin sensor validation, and a Unitree G1 humanoid hurdle-jumping experiment that succeeded in 64 of 100 simulations.
With Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, Incarna lets agents pay BlockRun per call for model inference through the x402 protocol. This reduced the work to add x402 payment support from months to days and brought it into production.
At a Gemini at Work event with 700+ Google Cloud customers at NASA Hangar One, Sundar Pichai introduced a new Gemini agent described as a single, universal agent for work. He says it answers questions, handles knowledge work, creates images and media, and writes and runs code from one prompt box, connected to personal workflows, systems of record and enterprise controls. Pichai lists unified agent, access, persistent execution, multi-agent orchestration, context and model choice flexibility as its core architectural principles.
Why it matters: The post lays out the architectural principles behind Google's new universal work agent, giving readers a first-hand view of how it handles context, orchestration and model choice.
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod published a multi-tenant reference architecture that lets multiple teams share the same HyperPod EKS cluster.
Gears of War: E-Day launches on GeForce NOW this week. Ultimate members can play with cloud performance equivalent to a GeForce RTX 5080 and support for NVIDIA DLSS and NVIDIA Reflex.
At APRCE 2026, Zhengxing Innovation released a Physical AI solution for open retail scenarios, simultaneously launching the bipedal humanoid robot H1 and the wheeled-arm robot C1 for handling and shelf stocking, supporting rapid "zero-modification" store deployment. The solution consists of the robot bodies and the unified management platform M1. The robots can autonomously complete 99% of tasks. Commercial services are planned for 2027, with support for direct purchase or RaaS subscription.
Security company Zenity Labs says AWS Bedrock AgentCore has a vulnerability chain it calls AgentCorruption. An attacker needs only chat access to one publicly accessible agent and a single prompt to take over all AgentCore agents in the same AWS account and region, read private conversations, download source code, and obtain stored credentials.
Nvidia is extending its Halos safety system from autonomous driving to robotics. Announced in June 2026, Halos for Robotics targets warehouse autonomous mobile robots, humanoid robots in factories, and surgical robots. It provides hardware and software tools to help developers build safety guardrails into physical AI devices. Amit Goel, who leads Nvidia's robotics ecosystem and edge computing, said safety is becoming the next bottleneck as AI models and robot hardware improve.
How H-Company Optimizes VLM Serving for Computer Use Agents With NVIDIA Dynamo https://t.co/gixR8bJLTj
Geely Auto Group unveiled its next-generation AI charging technology, Geely Smart Charge. Peak power reaches 2,250 kW per connector, maximum charging temperature stays below 65°C, and battery cycle life improves by 20%. The system uses Xingrui PowerMind, an energy brain co-developed with StepFun. In tests, the Lynk & Co 10 charged from 10% to 97% state of charge in an average of 8 minutes 40 seconds. By the end of 2027, Geely plans to build more than 22,000 charging stations and 100,000 charging connectors, becoming the first to provide coverage in every county nationwide.
vLLM v0.31.0 is live, spanning 717 commits from 307 contributors, including 96 first-timers. Highlights include DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash support with FlashMLA mega attention and NVFP4 KV caching, a vllm preload fast-restart path that keeps weights in GPU memory, Model Runner V2 speculative decoding, and large-scale serving features such as MoonEP balanced all-to-all and DeepEPv2. Full release notes are on GitHub.
Arti Garg, AVEVA's chief technology expert, says industrial AI is shifting from predictive analytics to foundation models, physical AI, and agentic AI, and requires connected data, governance frameworks, and human oversight for safety. AVEVA's responsible AI framework emphasizes safety, efficiency, and human oversight, arguing that AI should augment rather than replace people in critical decisions. Garg also participates in an IEEE working group developing a standard method to measure AI's environmental impact across power, energy, resources, water, and carbon.
At its Huawei Connect conference, Huawei launched OceanStor M900. Nvidia has also introduced CMX Context Memory Storage. Both move reusable KV cache from inference into tiered external storage, trading storage for compute to reduce costs.
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.
KargoBot announced on September 22 in Qipanjing Town, Ordos, the launch of a large-scale AI transport network, putting manned heavy trucks, driverless trucks with retained cabs, and cabless transport robots into the same transport system. Its driverless transport fleet has reached the scale of about one hundred vehicles, with operations covering 6 provinces including Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, and Shanxi, and it cooperates with 30 customers, 8 automakers, and about 30 ecosystem partners.
The vLLM project shared the vLLM-Omni technical report, describing a unified serving runtime for omni-modality generation. It argues that speech assistants, visual generation, world models and robot loops diverge from a single text decode loop into multi-stage autoregressive pipelines, iterative diffusion and stateful sessions, which LLM servers and diffusion stacks each cover only partially. vLLM-Omni acts as a shared control plane with an orchestrator, specialized engines, a connector and one session path. Paper and repo links are included.
At its first in-person event in two years, Microsoft launched the new Surface Laptop Ultra and announced a series of Windows 11 changes, while outlining its vision for local AI and agent workflows in personal computing.
Great to partner with NVIDIA as we kick off this next chapter for Windows. Thank you @JensenHuang and @sriramk for joining us today!
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.
If you need any more evidence about how exciting local AI (and llamacpp) is! From the @Microsoft windows launch today with @satyanadella @sriramk @JensenHuang
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.
Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases have added real-time ACL checks at query time, alongside pre-retrieval ACL filtering. They verify permissions directly with authoritative data sources, avoiding reliance on ACL data that may be stale or incorrectly mapped.
AWS announced that Claude Haiku 5.5 is available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS.
Why it matters: AWS describes Haiku 5.5's positioning, cost changes, and invocation methods, helping readers assess its role in a tiered multi-agent setup.
At a Windows AI and Surface event in San Francisco, NVIDIA and Microsoft said they are designing software and hardware together for the agent era on Windows PCs. Microsoft announced that its OS-level Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) infrastructure is generally available, allowing agents to run persistently in the background under system control.
Why it matters: NVIDIA and Microsoft are delivering both the system-level containers and local compute needed to run agents, helping readers assess the conditions for local agent workflows.
What's New in CUDA 13.4 https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1lJQRWNwlgWxE
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.
Why it matters: The source gives the framework's code size, Kubernetes support, and training recipe, helping readers assess the cost of bringing a real harness into RL.
Cornerstone OnDemand built Orion AI, a multi-agent system based on Amazon Bedrock and the open-source agent orchestration framework Strands Agents. It reduced database diagnosis time from 45 minutes to 10 minutes, a 78% reduction. It also compressed manual lifecycle operations from more than 10 steps to one interaction, a 70% reduction, and cut median redundant alerts by 65%. A three-person team delivered it in six months.
AWS shared a structured six-week program in which business staff without engineering backgrounds build working AI prototypes using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, the Strands Agents SDK, and Amazon Nova models, with about four hours of work per week.
AWS demonstrated an automated remediation workflow. Amazon EventBridge receives an investigation-complete event from AWS DevOps Agent, then AWS Lambda Durable Functions calls Amazon Bedrock to analyze the root cause and propose fixes from a pre-approved allowlist of tools.
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.
AWS proposed the Agentic Value Model to measure value that traditional ROI models miss in agentic automation, across four dimensions: hours saved, exception handling, decision quality, and resilience to change.
Stacklok, founded by Kubernetes creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, is moving coding-agent harnesses from desktops to the cloud. Its open-source project Mecatl decouples the agent loop from the client, model provider, state store, and execution environment.
Cursor says users can now control agents running on their computer from their phone. Through the Cursor iOS app, users can check in on tasks, reply to agents, or start new tasks remotely.
