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Theo covers the tools builders actually use — agents, IDEs, media models, and the products shipping on top of them.
Kwaipilot's new reinforcement learning framework matches DeepSeek-R1-Zero on math and code benchmarks simultaneously—using just one-tenth the compute. The team open-sourced both the method and the model.
NVIDIA has built a software framework that lets physical robots autonomously experiment, fail, and improve without human intervention — a closed loop borrowed from coding agents, now applied to real hardware.
Vellum has released agent-to-agent communication in Slack, where each user’s AI assistant retains its own memory and permissions while cooperating on tasks.
Anthropic has expanded its Artifacts feature to Claude Code users on Pro and Max plans, letting them generate live, self-contained web pages from a chat session.
Vellum has introduced agent-to-agent communication in Slack, allowing each team member’s AI assistant to retain individual memory and permissions while collaborating on tasks like scheduling and gathering input.
OpenAI has begun rolling out a significantly more capable and compute-efficient memory architecture—built on a technique called 'dreaming'—to ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers in the US. The update promises a more scalable system for synthesizing conversation memory, including a new memory summary feature for users.
Min Choi previewed Dreamina's Octo and Seedance 2 AI video tools, highlighting simple prompting and new vibe-creation features while cautioning that long-form generation remains a challenge.
Reve 2.0 has entered the text-to-image market with a claimed second-place benchmark ranking and new layout-based editing capabilities.
Microsoft unveiled a wave of AI products including new MAI-branded foundation models, a Copilot super app with long-running Autopilot agents, and a built-in OpenClaw Companion agent for Windows.
Google has moved Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro to general availability on its APIs, adding video file support for Nano Banana 2.
ElevenLabs has launched a new Dubbing v2 Alpha model that translates speech across all languages while retaining the original emotional tone.
Anthropic has introduced Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code, enabling reusable, multi-step agent tasks across enterprise plans and APIs, alongside a new "ultracode" effort level that lets Claude autonomously decide when to spawn workflows.
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