Open Interpreter is back as a fork of OpenAI's Codex, now boasting 64,900 GitHub stars, a lightweight Rust-based architecture, computer use capabilities, and support for top open models like DeepSeek and Kimi across macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Google releases Mantis, an open-source AI security toolkit that autonomously hunts, reproduces, and patches software vulnerabilities across hardware, firmware, and ML pipelines using a 15-component pipeline coordinated by a meta-agent, though all findings require manual expert verification before action.
BlenderMCP is revolutionizing 3D design by connecting Blender directly to Claude AI, allowing users to control modeling, scene creation, and object manipulation through natural language via the open-source Model Context Protocol integration.
Tencent is in talks to become the largest external shareholder in agentic AI startup Manus at a $2 billion valuation, moving aggressively into the AI race after Chinese regulators blocked Meta's acquisition of the company.
Google Cloud's new Discovery Bench framework exposes alarming flaws in AI benchmarking, revealing that a single vague word can crash an agent's performance score from perfect to zero, while also uncovering broken ground truth and mislabeled data in widely trusted benchmarks — raising urgent questions about whether the AI industry …
As agentic AI systems take hold in enterprises, organizations are urgently demanding greater control over data, model deployment, and regulatory compliance, with IBM's Sovereign Core emerging as a key solution offering security, compliance evidence, and deployment flexibility within an organization's own boundaries.
A new open-source AI framework called ACRouter launches on GitHub, intelligently routing coding tasks across multiple AI models to optimize both performance and cost, complete with a benchmark dataset, Hugging Face adapters, and plug-and-play integrations for popular developer tools.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, a GPT-5.6-powered autonomous AI agent that executes complex multi-step tasks across email, Slack, GitHub, and calendars for all paid subscribers starting at $20 per month, intensifying a fierce enterprise AI race against Anthropic and Microsoft as OpenAI eyes an IPO valuation of up to $852 billion.
OpenAI kills its standalone Atlas browser and folds its AI browsing capabilities into the ChatGPT desktop app and a new Chrome extension, directly challenging Google's Gemini with webpage summarization, task completion, and a remote cloud browser running on OpenAI's own servers.
Anthropic launches Claude Code, a powerful AI-driven terminal tool now available on Mac, Linux, and Windows, enabling developers to navigate codebases, automate workflows, and code faster using natural language commands.