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v2.1.312

What's changed Added oidc.user_id_claim to the Claude apps gateway, to identify people by an id_token claim other than sub

Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies

Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.

From spot fixes to measured gains: improving document extraction accuracy with ai_extract and MLflow Prompt Registry

Document extraction often starts with a simple loop: spot an incorrect field, adjust...

Announcing SOCI-indexed images for faster SageMaker AI jobs

Seekable OCI (SOCI) indexing for Amazon SageMaker AI training and processing jobs takes full container image download off the critical path

Fix evaluation bias to unlock better models on Amazon Bedrock

Property Finder found that 96.8% of their vision-AI evaluation labels were inherited from the incumbent model, hiding its true accuracy

Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering

Genie 4 can maintain a consistent scene for up to two minutes, double Genie 3's limit, and offers better physics and more humanlike characters.

DeepMind's Genie 4 world model adds audio and more realistic people to simulations

Genie 4 will roll out to developers and Google AI Ultra subscribers soon.

Retell uses OpenAI models to help power 100M monthly calls

GPT-6 Astra tops Retell’s voice agent benchmark, while Codex helps it reach a $1.6M annual revenue run rate per employee.

Apple Creator Studio adds powerful new AI features and even more creative tools

Apple introduces updates to Apple Creator Studio, the collection of creative apps designed to put studio-grade tools into the hands of creators.

Google’s next Genie AI model generates more realistic experiences

Google announced today its Genie 4 world model for generating interactive experiences using AI

MiniMax M3.1 Flash Integrated with Unsloth for Local Deployment

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Apple releases iOS and macOS 27.2 with new Siri AI features, new Music logo

Included is the ability to limit which applications Siri can directly access.

Groundhog Day for AI agents: Prompt caching patterns for using OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock

Every time an agent takes a step, it re-reads its entire context before acting

Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human

Typically, speech models are paired with a large language model for knowledge retrieval. Block said that Dessa's knowledge stems from the conversational data it has.

Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated ads

On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads

Block's new AI model Dessa was trained entirely on human speech to catch emotions text-based models miss

Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has introduced Dessa, a speech model that processes audio directly instead of converting it to text first

Fancy harnesses make coding agents more expensive but not better, study finds

A controlled study shows that switching between coding-agent harnesses like Claude Code, OpenCode, or mini-SWE-agent barely moves pass rates more than rerunning the same setup

v2.1.310

What's changed Added the Monitor tool and plugin monitors on Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry

Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell

The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.

Canva launches Craft, its first in-house image model

Design platform Canva has released Canva Craft, its first in-house image generation model

Canva launches Craft image model with 2K output and API

Canva Craft generates 2K images with planned layouts, text in 55 languages and editable elements through Dream Lab and a public API.

vLLM Delivers Day-0 Support for MiniMax-M3.1-Flash

Day-0 vLLM support for MiniMax-M3.1-Flash on NVIDIA Blackwell, NVIDIA Rubin, and AMD MI350-series GPUs, with NVFP4 MSA kernels, NVFP4 MegaMoE, DSpark speculative decoding

v2.1.309

What's changed Fixed sandboxed Bash commands on macOS and Linux running the shell's startup files outside the sandbox before each command Fixed macOS sandbox denyWrite glob

Canva releases its first image generation model

Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.

Canva’s first AI image model plans designs before generating them

Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google

Stream low-latency speech from AI agents using Kokoro TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI

Voice agents often wait for an agent's full response before starting speech synthesis, adding latency users feel directly

Spotify’s current AI bet is about being the music service that agents choose

Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström explains why the rise of AI agents could be good news for the music service.

How Real-Time Video Generation Is Changing Online Interaction

Introducing GWM Worlds 2

General World Models

Our long-term research effort to build AI systems that understand the visual world and its dynamics.