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The 17 labs we track and the biggest stories beyond them. The rest is in Everything.
Alibaba published a blog post announcing Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash. The item links to the Qwen blog page for the release.
Google opened its experimental AI agent CC to families, allowing up to six household members to share one agent. Each member controls what the agent can see, and CC compiles that material into a shared daily brief, calendar entries and a task list.
V7 uses GPT-5.6 to turn scattered company files into context that AI agents can use for complex, source-linked work. The product is described on OpenAI's official site.
Google announced a new experimental AI agent called CC aimed at families. Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks.
Amazon announced Amazon Connect Talent, an AI hiring solution for talent acquisition teams managing scaled hiring. It offers AI-led interviews, data-driven assessments and consistent evaluation, with recruiters retaining final hiring decisions.
OpenAI introduced Astra for Law, a product for legal work. It offers frontier intelligence, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.
Google DeepMind founded the DeepMind Institute, an interdisciplinary research platform focused on AGI. It is led by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and James Manyika and addresses safety, governance, and control risks.
OpenAI and AARP are offering free hands-on ChatGPT workshops to 1,000 older adults in 10 U.S. cities. The program aims to build practical AI skills safely.
Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA announced the launch of the AI Energy Management Alliance, a coalition focused on data centers that can dynamically manage electricity use. The group aims to advance flexible AI data center operations.
OpenAI introduced AI-powered advertising experiences including Sponsored Agents and tools for marketers. The offering includes integrations with HubSpot and Shopify.
Tencent released WeVisDoc-2B, a Qwen3-VL based vision language model, on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license. The model supports English and Chinese and has an associated arXiv paper.
Salesforce announced Koa, its first CRM reasoning model, built on NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang appeared onstage with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at Dreamforce.
Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking. The announcement came from the official DeepMind site.
Meta introduced Meta One, a subscription service across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta AI. It offers more AI usage, enhanced expression features, and tools for creators and businesses.
Anthropic added a Salesforce integration to Claude. The integration lets Claude work with Salesforce data.
Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business, adding new workflows, integrations, and training programs.
Perplexity's Portable Computer, a local version of its Perplexity Computer agent, is now available on Windows. It runs local models accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs to plan and carry out multistep tasks while keeping data on the device.
Alibaba released Qwen-Image-2.1, a text-to-image and image-editing model, on Hugging Face. The model has about 28,000 downloads and 1,978 likes.
Anthropic announced Claude for Financial Advisors. The offering is aimed at financial advisory work.