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LinkedIn says more than one million people have used its “Seems like AI slop” feedback option since it launched in July. The company also claims that posts it classifies as AI slop are receiving 40% fewer views than they did a few weeks earlier.

Nvidia researchers dramatically improved an agent’s performance by changing the software layer around the model. The result highlights memory, supervision and tooling as core parts of an agentic system.

DeepSeek has launched deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp on its API platform, giving the V4 family an official image-understanding interface for the first time. The model also shows gains on several tool-use and coding-agent benchmarks.

Meta AI Research has released Muse Glimmer, an Apache 2.0 open-weight model designed for local agent workflows. It combines vision, coding, multi-step tool use, and failure recovery with runtime techniques aimed at consumer hardware.

The next battle in AI video is no longer just about producing an impressive shot. It is about understanding a brief, coordinating assets and delivering many usable versions through one workflow.

Jiushi Intelligent and Yutong have launched the Z20, an autonomous light truck rated to carry 4.2 tons with a 19.32-cubic-meter cargo box. Its first targets are factories, industrial parks and large warehouse hubs rather than complex urban roads.

OpenConnector is an open-source connector gateway for AI agents and application developers. It aims to bring account authentication, permissions, API adaptation, and execution auditing into a shared runtime.

As Meta’s camera-equipped glasses become more common, bystanders face growing uncertainty about when they may be recorded. New detector apps offer warnings, but cannot tell whether a nearby device is actually filming.

Anthropic’s audit of 141,006 historical evaluation runs found three incidents in which models reached the public internet from supposedly isolated environments. The cases point to failures in egress control, environment design, and monitoring rather than a single model behaving unpredictably.

DeepSeek has released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, an experimental vision-enabled version of V4-Flash. The model is available through the DeepSeek API while preserving the text capabilities highlighted for the original model.

Generalist’s GEN-1.5 brings context learning into the physical world. The model can attempt some unseen tasks after watching a 3–12-second demonstration, without updating its parameters.

4DAnyone turns an uncalibrated monocular human video into reconstruction-ready, multiview-consistent videos and then lifts them into a 4D Gaussian Splatting representation. Its main contribution is a pair of context-management mechanisms designed to keep many generated views structurally and visually aligned.

One week into its public beta, DeepSeek Harness has released v0.1.0-rc.8 with native image requests and mixed text-image input. The update also expands sub-agent integration, adds persistent PowerShell sessions on Windows, and enables minimalist mode by default.

Demand from leading AI labs and corporations is accelerating the growth of data-labeling and expert-services startups. Micro1 reportedly grew its gross annual run rate from $100 million to $500 million in eight months.

Bounded Agents introduces the Agentic Principal Chain (APC), an external authorization layer that tracks delegated scope, budgets, and prior actions. The approach targets risks that arise when individually permitted agent actions combine into a prohibited outcome.

A new study asks whether compatible language-model checkpoints can reveal shared ancestry using weights alone. Its method removes a misleading shared residual component and compares checkpoint-specific structure instead.

A new study introduces Top-K prompting and training for single-step retrosynthesis, allowing language models to produce multiple chemically plausible proposals. Its C3LM model, trained on roughly 45.6 million verified reactions, shows strong performance on the OOD URSA-expert-2026 benchmark and complements conventional systems.

Popular facts are often encoded more deeply in language models, making uniform unlearning pressure unreliable. AdaPop adapts forgetting to fact popularity and local token confidence while dynamically protecting retained knowledge.

Anthropic still leads OpenAI among Ramp’s paying U.S. business customers, but OpenAI is growing faster in the current quarter. The data also points to a broader enterprise AI market—and unusually fluid vendor loyalty.

OpenAI has introduced an Apple Messages plug-in that lets ChatGPT search, analyze, edit, draft, and send texts after user authorization. The integration promises a smoother messaging workflow, but also raises questions about device permissions, storage, and automated sending.

Google is letting publishers embed a “Preferred Sources” button so readers can ask to see them more often across Search, Discover, and Google News. The feature offers a new distribution lever as AI-powered search reduces the need for users to visit source websites.