Meta launches Muse Image, a powerful new AI model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, now live in Meta AI, letting users transform text prompts and personal photos into stunning, shareable visuals across Instagram and WhatsApp, with Facebook, Messenger, and advertiser tools coming soon.
Google expands its Gemini API Managed Agents with powerful new features including background execution for long-running tasks, remote MCP server support, custom function calling, and mid-session credential refresh that preserves sandbox state — making AI agents significantly more reliable and flexible for production use.
Guidance, an open-source Python library with over 21,600 GitHub stars, gives developers precise control over AI model outputs using regex, context-free grammars, and JSON schema validation, while boosting efficiency by reducing unnecessary model processing across backends like OpenAI and llama.cpp.
Anthropic rolls out Claude Cowork to mobile and web, letting Max plan users start, monitor, and manage AI-driven tasks across devices, with background execution, scheduled automation, and real-time decision prompts — and over 90% of usage is everyday business work like financial reconciliation and content creation, not coding.
AI law startup Norm reaches unicorn status after raising $120 million in a Series C round led by Khosla Ventures, pushing its valuation to $1.2 billion as it disrupts traditional legal billing with AI agents supervised by human attorneys serving enterprise clients.
Microsoft is ditching OpenAI and Anthropic AI models in favor of cheaper, in-house MAI models across products like Excel and Outlook, while simultaneously cutting 4,800 jobs and doubling down on AI expansion — a bold cost-cutting gamble that risks alienating enterprises demanding top-tier AI performance.
China is weighing a major policy reversal by restricting foreign access to its most advanced AI models, holding talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai, as U.S.-China AI tensions escalate with accusations of illegal model distillation and retaliatory bans on American AI tools.
AI-generated actor Tilly Norwood is set to star in her first feature film 'Misaligned,' a surreal coming-of-age story developed by U.K. studio Particle6, sparking fierce backlash from SAG-AFTRA, which accuses the technology of using stolen performances to displace human actors.
A sample of 1.2 million Claude Cowork sessions reveals business operations tasks dominate usage at 33.4%, nearly four times the 8.7% share held by software development, with roughly half of all usage falling into cross-role, supportive tasks rather than core job functions.
Microsoft is ditching OpenAI and Anthropic AI models in favor of its own proprietary MAI models inside Excel and Outlook, completing tens of thousands of prompts weekly as the tech giant slashes costs and bets big on in-house artificial intelligence.