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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
Anthropic news:
Claude for Legal offers a gallery of ready-made artifacts for contract review , regulatory tracking, and more, that legal teams can adapt and share.
Claude for Nonprofits is a plugin for small nonprofit teams that helps them research funders, write grant proposals, and handle hiring and operations.
ElevenLabs released SFX v3, an upgraded model that generates more natural audio with multiple sound effects, music, and vocals from a single text prompt.
Google news:
Chrome autofill can now pull flight bookings, order numbers, tracking info, and more from your Gmail to help you fill out online forms.
Gemini app now lets you create, edit, and preview documents, PDFs, slides, spreadsheets, and more directly in the chat.
Gemini Notebook added hundreds of free textbooks that students can turn into flashcards, practice quizzes, and study guides with cited answers.
Immersive explorations in the Gemini app let you visually explore different study topics ranging from jet engines to the Silk Road.
Granola launched Voice Typing, a free dictation tool that turns speech into clean, formatted text in any app. (Only for Mac right now with Windows coming soon.)
Liquid AI open-sourced LFM3, a family of small models that understand audio, images, and text and are built to run on your own device.
Microsoft released MAI-Image-2.7, an image editing model that’s especially good at restoring photos and changing a picture’s scene or style.
Nvidia open-sourced Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a free speech-to-text model that knows 40 languages and can handle 1-hour recordings with up to 8 speakers.
OpenAI news:
Dot in ChatGPT can now text you updates over iMessage or RCS about tasks you’ve asked it to handle.
GPT-6.1 Terra is a faster, cheaper model that’s better at using computers and makes far fewer factual errors than its predecessor.
Pika open-sourced Pika H3 Flex, a video model that generates clips with synced audio from up to 12 reference images, videos, or sound files.
Runway launched App Studio, where you can build custom AI apps that generate images and video with sounds by prompting for it in natural language.
SpAItial launched Echo-3, a world model that creates detailed 3D environments out of quick iPhone scans of rooms and outdoor spaces.
🔬 AI research
Apple announced major updates to Creator Studio, adding AI assistants to many products, AI image editing in Pixelmator Pro, and video effects in Final Cut Pro.
Google news:
Gemini 4 Carbon is Google’s strongest model yet, with top cybersecurity and long-horizon task skills, rolling out first to a subset of cyber defenders.
Genie 4 can generate interactive worlds in real time, complete with matching audio, and you can direct it all just by typing prompts.
📖 AI resources
“DAYJOB: Tax” [BENCHMARK]: a benchmark that tests how well AI agents handle 50 real assignments from professional tax work.
“FrontierCode 2.0” [BENCHMARK]: coding benchmark that tests whether AI agents write changes that would actually get merged by real-world maintainers.
“OpenAI Signals” [REPORT]: data and insights into how people use ChatGPT for 165 types of work activities across nearly 100 countries.
“Vosko AI” [TOOL]: AI video dubbing & translation tool that preserves your voice tone, emotion, and background audio, supporting 94+ languages.
[sponsored]“Where are the world’s AI chips?” [REPORT]: an interactive explorer that estimates how much AI computing power each country has imported.
“Zombie Stats” [REPORT]: fun research into where questionable statistics quoted by AI chatbots actually come from.
🔀 AI random
Anthropic filed an S-1 with the SEC for its IPO, planning to list on Nasdaq under the ticker “ANT.”
Reddit is shifting to a mostly logged-in experience to protect itself from AI-powered scraping.
🤦♂️ AI fail of the week
“So…why exactly did you get fired from your casino job, then?” “Well…”
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