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  1. TechCrunch · AIAI score72

    Google launches unified Gemini agent for businesses, with consumer rollout later

    AIGoogle announced a unified Gemini agent that can plan and complete tasks on a user's behalf from a single interface, starting with businesses. The agent can connect to systems such as Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Jira, and any MCP server, and it writes audit trails attributed to itself. Google said consumers will get the agent later.

  2. PyTorch BlogAI score62

    NVIDIA Dynamo adds session-level IDs to route and cache agentic inference

    AINVIDIA Dynamo uses a unified session-level identifier to make its inference stack aware of agent sessions, subagents, and their KV cache across turns and tool calls. On SWE-bench, two TP4 MiniMax-M2 replicas on one 8xH100 node gained roughly 12-16% throughput from program-aware scheduling over KV-aware routing alone. The post also describes experimental shared-pool indexing and a proposed KvHint interface for session-aware cache policies in vLLM and SGLang.

    Why it matters: The post explains how session identifiers let an inference stack track agent working sets, with measured throughput gains on SWE-bench and agentic RL rollouts.

  3. SiliconANGLE · AIAI score38

    Automation Anywhere to acquire Boost.ai to expand customer-facing voice AI

    AIAutomation Anywhere Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Boost.ai Inc., a conversational voice AI company, from Nordic Capital, to extend its autonomous enterprise platform into customer experience. Boost.ai supports more than 36 languages, serves hundreds of customers in regulated industries and Europe, and maintains more than 650 deployments and about 600 live AI agents. The deal follows Automation Anywhere's late 2025 acquisition of Aisera Inc.

  4. Sundar PichaiAI score62

    Google introduces Gemini agent as a single universal agent for work

    AIGoogle introduced a new Gemini agent that combines question answering, knowledge work, image and media creation, and code writing in one prompt box. The agent connects to personal workflows, systems of record, and enterprise controls, and runs in the cloud with a shared memory and personalization graph. It can create sub-agents for multi-step tasks, act as a coworker agent with its own identity, and orchestrate across multiple models to balance quality and cost.

  5. The Verge · AIAI score30

    SpaceXAI Backs Omarchy Linux Distro With $1.5 Million in Grok Tokens

    AISpaceXAI is joining the Omacom Foundation, which oversees the Omarchy Linux distribution, as a Founding Corporate Patron and donating $1.5 million worth of Grok tokens to the project. According to David Heinemeier Hansson's blog post, the tokens will primarily accelerate development, review code, and patch bugs. The partnership follows earlier controversy over Hansson's anti-immigration posts, which have drawn criticism of Omarchy's corporate contributors, including 1Password and Cloudflare.

  6. Artificial IgnoranceAI score52

    Charlie Guo maps the core primitives that make AI agents work over time

    AIThe author argues that agent systems are converging on shared primitives grouped into doing the work, continuing the work, and delegating the work. These include instructions and skills, tools and connectors, sandboxes, sessions, compaction, schedules, and subagents. He also flags memory, proactivity, and agent identity as emerging areas still lacking settled standards.

  7. SiliconANGLE · AIAI score30

    Liquid AI Builds On-Device Personal AI Around Device-Level Context

    AILiquid AI is building personal AI that runs on devices such as phones, wearables, PCs, and cars, using its Liquid Context layer, which is optimized for Snapdragon processors, to sit between models, agents, and hardware. The company's agent harness uses its own models to decide which user context to retain and how to compress it within fixed compute limits. Liquid AI is also collaborating with Mercedes-Benz Group AG to bring on-device AI to its cars and plans observability and continuous improvement loops for self-improving agents.

  8. The Verge · AIAI score62

    Anthropic updates Claude usage policy to ban abusive treatment and expand misuse rules

    AIAnthropic is revising its usage policy for the first time in over a year, adding bans on sustained abusive or cruel behavior toward Claude and on deceptive election and propaganda campaigns. The update also expands weapons restrictions, tightens surveillance bans, and requires a qualified operator able to stop equipment when Claude controls autonomous physical hardware. Terminating conversations remains the primary enforcement mechanism, and the company did not say whether user bans would follow.

  9. Tessl BlogAI score44

    Continuous AI Brings Agentic Automation to Repository Workflows

    AITessl's blog post argues that repository automation needs Continuous AI, a third pillar alongside CI and CD for scheduled, auditable AI workflows that improve repositories over time. The article describes GitHub Agentic Workflows, which harden agentic workflow specifications into GitHub Actions that can run coding agents such as Claude Code, Copilot CLI, Gemini CLI, or Codex-style agents. It emphasizes read-only agent steps, restricted outputs, and human review of pull requests.

  10. Elvis SaraviaAI score46

    RSIGym gives research agents services, lifting SWE-bench Verified to 50.33%

    AIRSIGym provides a research agent with training, inference, evals, and sandboxes as callable services, so it spends its budget on experiments rather than rebuilding infrastructure. With Opus 5 as the researcher, the improved system rose from 17.67% to 50.33% on SWE-bench Verified. The post also highlights a way to measure co-evolution between harnesses and models.

  11. AWS Machine Learning BlogAI score27

    Share SageMaker HyperPod GPU clusters across teams with isolation and fair scheduling

    AIAWS published a reference architecture for running multiple teams on one Amazon SageMaker HyperPod EKS cluster, with each team isolated in its own Kubernetes namespace. The design combines AWS IAM Identity Center for authentication, per-team SageMaker AI domains, HyperPod Task Governance for fair resource allocation, and namespace-level cost allocation for per-team spend visibility.

  12. MarkTechPostAI score58

    JetBrains releases Mellum2.1, a 12B MoE open model for coding agents

    AIJetBrains has released Mellum2.1, a 12B mixture-of-experts thinking model with 2.5B active parameters, under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face. Post-training reinforcement learning in real software repositories raised SWE-bench Verified from 2.0 to 47.0, according to JetBrains' self-reported results. Qwen3.5-9B still leads on SWE-bench Pro, GPQA Diamond and AIME, and GGUF builds start at 7.0 GB for local use.

  13. Elvis SaraviaAI score22

    Interface ring lets users control AI agents by voice from hand

    AINatura AI's Interface is a ring that lets users press and hold to speak requests to AI agents such as Claude Code, Codex, or Hermes, then release to send them. The post argues that screenless interfaces may define the next phase of agent use, since handing work to agents is currently slowed by pulling out a phone. Early-adopter pricing is $99, with shipping slated for January.

  14. Goodfire ResearchAI score57

    Goodfire deploys probe-based cyber monitors on Kimi K3 with a judge cascade

    AIGoodfire Research describes probe-based cyber monitors for Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 deployed on a production inference stack. The probe filters suspicious exchanges before an LLM judge reviews them, reaching about 93% recall at a 5.5% benign-session interruption rate at roughly 50x lower judge cost. In FAR.AI's red-teaming, the monitor reduced universal jailbreaks to zero across 140 tested strategies.

  15. LeiphoneAI score62

    Claude Haiku 5.5 gains on computer use but still trails Sonnet 5.5 in terminal coding

    AIAnthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, raising its OSWorld 2.1 score from 15.7% to 72.4% and supporting a 1 million token context window. The article notes Haiku 5.5 still scores 39.2% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 against Sonnet 5.5's 70.6%, and that prompts above 100,000 tokens are priced higher, so migration costs need to be measured on real workloads.

  16. Satya NadellaAI score38

    Satya Nadella proposes Copilot as an OS for work and an infinite SaaS factory

    AISatya Nadella outlines Microsoft's vision of Copilot as a new operating system for work spanning every model and task, backed by a governed "headless" business layer. Microsoft announced over 30 new Copilot skills across Dynamics 365 Sales, Service and Customer Insights, plus Microsoft Copilot Managed Runtime for hosting code inside a company's IT-governed environment. Nadella describes this as an "infinite SaaS factory" where users can describe needs and build customizations connected to existing systems of record.

  17. Augment Code BlogAI score62

    Augment Code sells Cosmos, Auggie CLI, and Context Engine assets to Harness

    AIAugment Code is selling select assets, including Cosmos, Auggie CLI, and the Code Context Engine, to Harness, and the product team is moving to Harness. The company says Harness's integrated platform delivers these capabilities to customers more effectively than building them independently. Harness describes itself as building the Autonomous SDLC Platform for shipping AI-written code across enterprises.

    Why it matters: The announcement shows how a coding AI company is folding its products into a larger software delivery platform, a shift that shapes how enterprise teams will buy these tools.