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AIAnthropic is launching an expanded Cyber Verification Program with three access tiers for qualifying security professionals, giving each tier different cyber capabilities and reduced blocking classifiers. On CyScenarioBench, Claude Opus 5.5 was blocked on 46 of 50 trials in the Defense Access tier, while the Red Team Access tier had no blocks and completed 34 of 50 tasks. Existing Project Glasswing members will move to the Specialized Access tier, and data retention is required for enrolled organizations.

Why it matters: The program lays out three verified access tiers with different cyber blocks, and its CyScenarioBench figures show how safeguards change what defenders can do.

AIMicrosoft has added citation links to Copilot replies in Word, letting users click through to original web pages or internal documents to verify information. The company says the change improves transparency about where Copilot's information comes from. The feature targets AI hallucinations, which are errors or fabricated sources produced by AI tools.

AITogether AI is running a large dedicated inference cluster of NVIDIA B300 GPUs on IBM Cloud, backed by NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, and is the first customer on it. Together AI operates the inference layer, IBM provides the cloud, and NVIDIA supplies the silicon and networking. The companies say the setup aims to deliver enterprise-grade, open-model inference at scale.

AIGoogle DeepMind launched EmbeddingGemma 2, an open-weight 740M parameter model that maps text, images, video frames, and audio into one vector space. The model can run on-device, with about 567MB active RAM for the full multimodal model on a Google Pixel 11 Pro, and is available through Google AI Edge Gallery, Google AI Edge Foresight on Mac, and MediaPipe Tasks, with ML Kit support coming in the weeks ahead.

Why it matters: The post names concrete on-device apps, memory footprints, and latency figures, showing how a multimodal embedding model can power local search without cloud calls.

AICursor's iOS app now lets users see and reply to local agents running on their computer. Remote control is on by default except for Enterprise organizations, and agents keep running on the computer rather than moving to the cloud. The computer must stay on and online, and users can enable Keep this computer awake in desktop settings.

AIClaude Code v2.1.290 adds serverToolUses to plugin turn.step results and agentId to tool.check hook events, so hooks can distinguish subagent permission checks. The release also adds a Deny button to the Claude apps gateway sign-in approval page, plus claude attach and claude logs accepting partial session names.

AIPerplexity's Mac app now supports tabs, and sessions can open in separate windows for parallel multitasking. Users can run tasks side by side or spread sessions across different screens. The feature is live in version 26.37.1 for all Computer users on Mac.

AIEthan Mollick reports that he moved much of his complex Cowork work to the new Claude Projects, which persistently chat with a dedicated cloud VM, finding them much better in most ways but poorly documented. Felix Rieseberg, who works on Cowork, explains that the new version runs model inference and the VM in the cloud, with each session in its own sandbox that is destroyed when the session ends. Files are accessed only from folders the user explicitly adds, with the desktop app handling those requests.

AIClaude Projects cloud sessions can now connect to a folder the user approves on their computer. The session stays in the cloud and reads or edits files in place only when a task requires it, with rollout starting today and coming to Cowork as well.

AIClaude can be added to Slack group DMs the same way as any other member. It answers in a thread and keeps following that thread, so anyone in the DM can reply to it there. It can also use the personal connectors of whoever asks.

AIAnthropic's Cowork will run tasks in the cloud instead of on users' local machines starting tomorrow. Tasks can still access files and tools on the user's computer, limited to folders explicitly added to the session.

AIPyTorch has consolidated all media decoding and encoding for images, video, and audio into TorchCodec, which now runs on CPU and CUDA. TorchVision and TorchAudio are narrowed to focus on their transforms, with models, datasets, and pipelines no longer under active development. All three libraries are now ABI stable and no longer need rebuilding for each PyTorch release.

AIPika announced that developers can build with Ideogram 4.5 through the Pika API Club. The post links to the Ideogram 4.5 model page on Pika's developer platform.

AIPika announces that users can try Ideogram 4.5 through its create platform, linking to an Ideogram app page in its image tools section. The post provides no details on features, pricing, or capabilities.

AIThe llama.cpp v0.6.0 release adds Clef support for text and vision, along with high-quality support for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next. It also brings a major Metal performance improvement and a new llama_batch_ext API, and the project website at llama.app has been refreshed.

AIGranola now automatically captures decks, designs, charts, and docs shared during meetings and adds them directly to users' notes. The feature lets users and their AI agents recall what was shown on screen, not just what was said.

AICognition introduced Agent Memory Repo, which stores memory records as files versioned with Git. The post says this simple primitive enables uses such as a message board shared across agent sessions.

AIIdeogram 4.5 can convert famous paintings into realistic photographic scenes using the single prompt "Turn this painting into a realistic scene." The example shown is Edvard Munch's The Scream (1893), reimagined as a photo.

AIOpenAI has optimized inference for GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, making them about 50% faster by default across subscription plans and Sign in with ChatGPT partners. The change requires no action from users and should be noticeable within two hours of rollout.

AIDeveloper Wob Soriano ported Muse's gadget client to C so it runs natively on a PSP, a handheld kept in his house for over 15 years. Holding R and speaking into the built-in microphone gets an answer from Muse, with OpenAI providing the voice.

AIGoogle Antigravity shared a demo of a mini self-generating forest made entirely of colorful pencil strokes, built with Gemini 3.8 from a sketch reference and a prompt. The quoted post says the result came from turning an art sketch into an exploratory mini game.

AIGoogle Antigravity has integrated the AlphaGenome Atlas Skill into its scientific workbench, enabling AI agents to help researchers prioritize genetic variants, generate structural plots, and build testable hypotheses. The company showcases researchers Natasha and Kyle using the tool in a demonstration video.

AILiving Models paired Google's Gemma 4 with BOTANIC-1, a plant-DNA model trained on 320 species, to identify causal genetic variants. In a melon yield test, the pipeline ranked the target mutation first out of 2,494 possibilities in under four minutes. The approach aims to speed up breeding of climate-resilient crops that would otherwise take years of field trials.

AIEra, launched by Ofir Ehrlich's team, generates a complete simulated company spanning Salesforce, Slack, Jira, Zendesk, Gong, and Deel, plus cloud databases and storage. Agents interact with it through live MCP and API interfaces, and because Era generated the company, it knows the exact ground truth for testing and benchmarking. The post says the product is live today and free.

AICursor's SDK now supports steering and system prompts for local TypeScript agents. Background subagent results are returned locally in TypeScript and Python.