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Welcome back to your weekly AI news roundup.
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Here’s what happened in AI last week:
👩💻 AI releases
1Password released 1Password for Agents, which lets AI agents sign in to websites for you (with your approval) without ever actually seeing your passwords.
Canva launched its own in-house image model called Canva Craft, which plans the layout before generating and can turn images into editable layered designs.
DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, a faster coding model with better performance that can build whole projects like 3D models and games.
ElevenLabs launched Chimera, a platform for creatives that combines its own voices with Seedance 2.5 video generation for expressive, natural outputs.
Google news:
Gemini app now has a Business Hub for small business owners, letting them make on-brand visuals and create graphics out of receipts and spreadsheets.
Gemini Notebook now lets you review and steer the format, outline, and style of Slide Decks and Video Overviews before they’re generated.
Ideogram launched Vector 1.0 that turns text prompts or images into fully editable SVG files you can pull into and edit in Figma or Illustrator.
Inception launched Mercury 3, a diffusion-based language model that can respond several times faster than comparable small models. (Try for free.)
MiniMax unveiled MiniMax M3.1 Flash, a faster and cheaper model optimized for coding, computer use, and multi-step agent tasks.
Mistral released Voxtral 3, a family of models for transcription and natural-sounding speech in over 50 languages, designed for real-time voice agents.
Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3.1 Pro, a model that can build full coding projects and 3D creations in tools like Godot, Unity, and Unreal Engine.
OpenAI news:
ChatGPT desktop app now lets you edit earlier messages in a long chat instead of just the last one.
Locked Chats let you hide sensitive ChatGPT conversations behind Face ID, a PIN, or Touch ID, keeping them out of your regular history and search.
Perplexity launched a fully local version of Computer for Mac, so its agent can work across your files and apps without sending data to the cloud.
Recursive open-sourced Flint, a lightweight and fast model that can run agentic coding tasks on a laptop.
🔬 AI research
Anthropic announced Claude Duet, a proactive, always-on agent app that finishes tasks in the background, sends morning briefs, etc. (Join the waitlist.)
OpenAI seems to be testing new “Aurora” image models in blind arena matchups, possibly an early look at GPT Image 3.
📖 AI resources
“AI Benchmarks: Climbing the Wrong Hills” [REPORT]: a look at how benchmarks shape AI models and whether they measure the right things.
“How employment is changing at Anthropic” [REPORT]: a deep dive into how AI agents reshape daily work, hiring, and productivity at the company.
🔀 AI random
Spotify added AI Credits, AI Persona badges, and Verified by Spotify badges to help listeners tell when a real artist is behind the music.
🤦♂️ AI fail of the week
I don’t know how one “eats sunshine,” but there sure is plenty of rain up in here.
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