OpenAI's finance team is ditching spreadsheets for real-time AI-powered forecasting, pushing toward a zero-day close where live tools give leaders an instant, reconciled view of financial data while transforming finance professionals into builders who create custom dashboards using ChatGPT and Codex.
QwenLM launches Qwen-MM-Plugins, an open-source plugin system that gives any AI agent powerful multimodal capabilities — including image, video, audio, and document understanding — with modular tools supporting 3D modeling, web search, video editing, and more, compatible with Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI.
Meta launches Muse Glimmer, a powerful 30-billion parameter open-weight AI model that runs locally on consumer hardware, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg publishes a sweeping manifesto warning against AI power concentration — even as critics question whether Meta itself represents exactly that.
Ford launches an AI-powered assistant for Ford and Lincoln vehicles, starting as a mobile app chatbot with real-time vehicle data, and targeting a full in-car voice feature by 2027 as automakers race to integrate AI technology.
Google's Pixel phones are pushing AI photography to unprecedented limits, with generative AI solving once-impossible challenges like low-light and zoom quality, but as features like sky replacement and adding absent people to photos emerge ahead of the Pixel 11 launch, a provocative question looms: at what point does AI-enhanced photography …
Spotify launches Xirp, a vendor-neutral AI coding platform empowering thousands of engineers to run 50+ parallel agent sessions simultaneously, with model-switching flexibility and over 36,000 internal sessions already logged.
Invoke's open-source AI creative engine is surging in popularity with 27.8K GitHub stars, powering visual media generation through Stable Diffusion models, a web-based UI, and support for cutting-edge AI models like Flux and SDXL, backed by a thriving community of 379 contributors.
Meta Superintelligence Labs launches Muse Glimmer, a powerful 30-billion-parameter open-source AI model that runs locally on consumer devices like MacBooks and PCs, supporting over 100 languages, multimodal input, and advanced agentic workflows — all under 20GB of memory.
Pathway CEO Zuzanna Stamirowska declares large language models fundamentally broken due to architectural limits and unveils Dragon Hatchling, a new AI system promising native memory, continual learning, and abstract reasoning at lower compute costs.
Two ex-Google DeepMind engineers have launched Poetiq, a startup developing self-improving AI technology kept strictly internal, while debuting Augur, a benchmarking tool helping enterprises find the best AI model for specific tasks.