Manus Joins Meta: A Strategic Move to Embed AI Agents Across Platforms

Meta announced that Manus is joining the company. This strategic move aims to integrate Manus's advanced autonomous AI agent technology across Meta's consumer and business products.

Qwen3-TTS models introduce two powerful capabilities—Voice Design and Voice Cloning

How AI is Learning to Speak with Feeling and Character

Forget the Shiny AI Tools. First, Do This.

A practical, step-by-step framework to identify where AI can drive real ROI—without the hype.

Beyond the Hype Cycle: The Google AI Announcements That Actually Mattered in 2025

Google has laid out its own scorecard: a sprawling, 60-announcement chronicle of a year spent embedding artificial intelligence into every facet of its ecosystem.

When AI Can't Speak UI: Google's A2UI Teaches Agents to Show, Not Just Tell

A2UI (Agent-to-User Interface), aims to bridge. It’s not an app you’ll download, but a foundational standard—a kind of \"HTML for agents\"—that could reshape how we interact with AI.

From Prompt to Play: YouTube's Gemini-Powered Game Builder Enters the Arena

YouTube, the titan of video sharing, is stepping onto a new playground with the closed beta launch of Playables Builder, a prototype web app that lets users generate simple games using AI—no coding required.

Beyond Playlists: ChatGPT Wraps Your Year in Code and Conversation

OpenAI is rolling out \"Your Year with ChatGPT,\" a feature that aims to summarize your 2025 in prompts and pixels.

Beyond Seeing and Hearing: Meta's New AI Model Unifies Sensory Perception in a Single Brain

Researchers from Meta’s Superintelligence Labs are unveiling a significant step toward closing this gap. They’ve introduced Perception Encoder Audiovisual (PE-AV), a new family of AI models designed to natively understand and link audio, video, and text within a single, unified system.

Breaking the App Barrier: ElevenLabs Brings AI Agents to the World's WhatsApp Chats

The company is expanding its omnichannel conversational AI platform to support WhatsApp, bringing real-time voice and chat agents to the world's most popular messaging service.

From Chat to Action: Google Shrinks the AI Agent to Fit in Your Pocket

FunctionGemma, a new, specialized variant of its compact Gemma 3 270M model, engineered expressly for reliable function calling at the edge.

The End of Artisanal Evaluations: Anthropic Unleashes Bloom, an Automated AI Behavioral Microscope

Bloom, an open-source, agentic framework designed to automatically generate and run behavioral evaluations for frontier AI models.

The Fast, Cheap, Polyglot Challenger: xAI Unleashes Grok Voice to Take On the Talking AI Titans

xAI is launching the Grok Voice Agent API, a full-stack solution that allows any developer to build voice agents that can speak dozens of languages, call tools, and search the web in real time.

A Rare Reversal: GitHub Listens, Delays Controversial Self-Hosted Runner Charges

GitHub proved an exception. Following significant developer outcry over a planned billing change for self-hosted Actions runners.

ChatGPT's Image Model Grows Up, Gains Precision and a Creative Playground

The AI Gets a Brain Upgrade: Manus 1.6 Brings Max Performance, Mobile Builds, and a Visual Design Playground

Manus 1.6, including the Max agent, Mobile Development, and Design View, is available now.

The Doc That Writes Itself: Google's Code Wiki Aims to End the \"What Does This Do?\" Era

The core promise of Code Wiki is a system that maintains a continuously updated, structured wiki for any repository it touches.

AI2 Opens the Black Box: OLMo 3 Releases the Entire Recipe, Not Just the Cake

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has announced Olmo 3, a new family of open-source language models, followed by an update to Olmo 3.1

Google Elevates Voice AI with Major Gemini Audio Updates

Google has announced significant advancements to its Gemini audio models, introducing enhanced capabilities for voice interactions and groundbreaking live translation features.

Thinking Machines Opens Tinker Platform and Expands Capabilities

Thinking Machines Lab has moved its Tinker platform to general availability while introducing significant new capabilities, including vision processing and enhanced interoperability

Claude Code Expands to Mobile and Streamlines Developer Workflow

Anthropic has released a significant update for Claude Code CLI, extending its capabilities to Android devices and introducing efficiency upgrades for desktop users.

A New Era for Storytelling: Disney and OpenAI Announce Landmark Partnership

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI have entered a landmark multi-year agreement.

Name It, Track It, Resume It: Claude Code Gets Organised

Anthropic has released a significant update to Claude Code CLI, introducing several workflow enhancements designed to streamline development processes.

Adobe Just Brought Professional Creativity Into the Chat

Adobe just changed the game. In a move that seamlessly blends conversation with creation, Adobe has integrated Photoshop, Adobe Express, and Acrobat directly into ChatGPT.

Advancing AI Reliability: Google DeepMind Introduces the FACTS Benchmark Suite

Google DeepMind has launched the FACTS Benchmark Suite—a comprehensive framework developed in collaboration with Kaggle to evaluate and advance the factuality of AI systems.

Introducing SAPO: A New Approach for More Stable Reinforcement Learning in AI Models

Qwen team introduces a method aimed at improving a core technique used to train large language models (LLMs).