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- LaunchMajorBring near-Astra intelligence to everyday work with GPT-6.1 Sol on Amazon Bedrock
GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing stronger reasoning to coding, computer use, and professional workloads that run frequently.
- LaunchMajorOpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT's own office suite
OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into mor direct competition with more traditional software companies.
- LaunchMajorOpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar
Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.
TechCrunchOpenAI - LaunchMajorOpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor
OpenAI is responding to Meta's buzzy Muse AI with agentic helpers of its own: Dots. During its DevDay keynote on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that Dots will serve as always-on AI assistants that can "do nearly anything" across connected apps in the background while learning your pre
- LaunchMajorMeta's Muse AI sent a YouTuber’s address to a stranger
Tech YouTuber Matt Robb says that Muse gave out his home address to a total stranger this weekend, after authorizing the bot to handle his Facebook Marketplace account. That's despite Meta placing great emphasis on the security features of Muse when it launched the personal AI ag
The VergeMeta - LaunchMajorAnthropic warns of ‘catastrophic’ AI risks in its own IPO filing
As Anthropic gears up for its greatly anticipated public debut, a preview of the company's IPO filing reportedly details its mounting losses, leadership proposals to retain power, and how its AI development plans could "further increase the risk that our models cause harm." These
The VergeAnthropic - LaunchPeak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort
Thirteen of the 18 startups in Peak XV’s latest Surge cohort are targeting global markets, while more than half are based in India.
TechCrunch - LaunchMajorIntroducing dots
Dots by OpenAI are a proactive assistant that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.
OpenAI✓ primaryOpenAI - LaunchMajorGrok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock
xAI's Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock: a frontier model for coding, long-running agents, and knowledge work. It offers a 500K token context window and four configurable reasoning effort levels, reachable through the Responses, Chat Completions, and Converse APIs.
- LaunchMajorNvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday introduced a toolkit of software and hardware products that add independent security layers around AI agents to ensure they stay within their test environments even if they attempt to break out.
TechCrunchNVIDIA - LaunchMajorMeta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative
Meta says it will focus on bringing its full technology stack, including Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, Muse Code, and more to businesses and developers.
TechCrunchMeta - LaunchEngram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music
Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It's a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds. This isn't Suno in a box, though. This isn't a "push-button,
- LaunchMajorMicrosoft thinks its new Copilot ‘super app’ will be as influential as Office
After teasing its new Copilot "super app" last month, Microsoft is officially unveiling it today. The redesigned Copilot app bundles three AI capabilities into a single interface of chat, coding, and agents. As part of the launch, Microsoft is also rebranding Scout, the AI person
- LaunchMajorContain the Chaos: ‘CONTROL Resonant’ Launches on GeForce NOW
A warped Manhattan is waiting in the cloud this week. Remedy Entertainment’s CONTROL Resonant brings Dylan Faden’s extraordinary abilities and a paranatural crisis to GeForce NOW at launch. With the release comes the final days of the CONTROL Resonant Ultimate Membership Bundle.
NVIDIA Blog✓ primaryNVIDIA - LaunchMajorAdvancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory
Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.
Google DeepMind✓ primaryGoogle - LaunchMajorIntroducing MentalHealthBench
MentalHealthBench is an expert-informed benchmark for evaluating helpful and safe AI responses across realistic mental health conversations.
OpenAI✓ primaryOpenAI - LaunchMajorBring more intelligence to everyday work with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on Amazon Bedrock
GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, giving you more options to match intelligence and efficiency to each workload.
- LaunchMajorClaude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS
Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic's most capable Opus model for agentic coding, knowledge work, and long-running tasks, is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. This post covers what's new in Opus 5.5, practical guidance, and how to start building with the model on
- LaunchMajorNVIDIA Launches DSX Ready to Qualify Power and Cooling Products for AI Factories
Every AI factory needs power and cooling that fit its computing architecture. As AI infrastructure expands, power, cooling, water, site and grid constraints are shaping what builders can deploy. Choosing products that fit the complete factory design helps builders turn computing
NVIDIA Blog✓ primaryNVIDIA - LaunchMajorIntroducing the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint
OpenAI introduces the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint, a six-pillar roadmap for safer AI experiences that protect and empower young people.
OpenAI✓ primaryOpenAI - LaunchMajorMaking global data easier to explore
Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, a new open platform making global statistics accessible and easy to search.
Google (The Keyword)✓ primaryGoogle - LaunchMajorCute Critters Come to the Cloud: ‘Aniimo’ Launches on GeForce NOW
A new creature-catching adventure is ready to stream from the cloud this week. Pawprint Studio’s Aniimo arrives on GeForce NOW at launch, inviting gamers to explore the vibrant continent of Idyll across supported devices. Also this week, 007 First Light receives a path-tracing up
NVIDIA Blog✓ primaryNVIDIA - LaunchMajorIntroducing Astra for Law
OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.
OpenAI✓ primaryOpenAI - LaunchMajorNVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut
System performance, efficient infrastructure scaling and continuous software optimization are key levers that determine AI inference economics. Higher system performance means more tokens generated, resulting in higher revenue. Efficient scaling means throughput grows proportiona
NVIDIA Blog✓ primaryNVIDIA - LaunchMajorEmerald AI, Google and NVIDIA Launch Alliance to Advance Flexible AI Data Centers
AI factories are the infrastructure of the intelligence era. Scaling them responsibly will depend as much on innovation across the grid as inside the data center. Today, Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA announced the launch of the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), a first-of-its
- LaunchMajorIntroducing the Agents API
Build and launch cloud agents with the Agents API, a managed service powered by the Codex harness for orchestration, long-running sessions, and tool use.
OpenAI✓ primaryOpenAI - LaunchMajorIntroducing ChatGPT Images 2.5
ChatGPT Images 2.5 helps turn your ideas, sketches, and reference photos into more personalized, polished images that better reflect your ideas.
- LaunchMajorSupporting independent journalism in Ukraine
OpenAI, AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA launch an AI program to help Ukrainian news organizations strengthen innovation, resilience, and independent journalism.
OpenAI✓ primaryOpenAI - LaunchMajorDaybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services
OpenAI introduces Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. A $1 billion commitment expands access to frontier cyber AI, training, and support for essential services.
OpenAI✓ primaryOpenAI - LaunchMajorTry Google Pics: Easy image creation and editing in Google Workspace
Built on our latest Nano Banana model, Google Pics — our image creation and editing tool — is now available.
- LaunchMajorIntroducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AIHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- LaunchMajorIntroducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysisHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- LaunchMajorIntroducing Shieldstral.
Shieldstral introduces a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size.
Mistral AI✓ primaryMistral AI - LaunchMajorIntroducing Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AIHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- LaunchMajorIntroducing Robostral Navigate
Introducing Robostral Navigate: 8B model achieving 76.6% on R2R-CE with just a single RGB camera. No depth sensors, LiDAR, or multiple cameras needed.
Mistral AI✓ primaryMistral AI