Liquid AI releases LFM3, a family of six roughly 2-billion-parameter models spanning text, vision, audio, omni, and decision tasks, built on a 1.7B base. The company says LFM3-1.7B outperforms its LFM2.5-2.6B while using 35% fewer parameters. The open-weight models are available on Hugging Face and Liquid's API, with a 256K-token context window for text.
Microsoft's October Visual Studio update adds a Compare with Working Tree command that diffs an earlier commit against current code, including uncommitted edits. The company also adds bulk conflict resolution, applying Keep All Current or Take All Incoming across selected files, and Hot Exit, which Microsoft says is off by default and restores unsaved documents.
Google releases Gemini Robotics Embodied Reasoning 2 in public preview on the Gemini platform, letting enterprises simulate, evaluate and deploy robot control models with Google Cloud security and orchestration. Google says the model pinpoints a critical video frame with 91.3% accuracy. Developers declare low-level control interfaces as tools, and Boston Dynamics cites video inspection uses.
Anthropic has acquired Mithril Medicine, a one-person biotech founded by Cody Tranbarger, who disclosed his identity as the X account Professor Oak. Tranbarger says he will continue Mithril's bispecific antibody programs for LAMA2-CMD and start several more at Anthropic, betting that AI orchestration lets one drug hunter run multiple programs at once.
Epoch AI launched an AI Chip Imports explorer that estimates national arrivals of AI compute from customs records. The researchers estimate 19.8 million of 27.4 million H100-equivalents shipped from 2022 through June 2026, or 72%, went to the United States, while China received 10% including domestic production.
Meta's FAIR releases InteractiveWorld, a simulator where an AI assistant sees a human's first-person view and issues short commands in 44 BEHAVIOR-1K scenes. It ships InteractiveBench, 120 frozen multi-turn tasks across six categories, scoring goals against world state rather than text. The code is under CC BY-NC 4.0, and the human body and motion data require separate licenses.
NVIDIA publishes Auto Ontology, an Apache-2.0 Python framework that builds semantic, graph-based context layers over enterprise metadata so agents can generate SQL against certified definitions and return provenance. It stores the catalog in Postgres with pgvector, defaults to NVIDIA NIM models, and queries Databricks, Snowflake and DuckDB sources. The repository states 462 stars and that outside contributions are not accepted.
OpenAI released solutions to three long-standing math problems, including a claimed refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a core assumption about computational difficulty. Anthropic released its own ETH refutation hours later, after its mathematician Levent Alpöge said OpenAI's work built on existing research. MIT's Ryan Williams is organizing a community response and an open letter.
Google DeepMind released Genie 4 in research preview, a world model it says generates photorealistic interactive scenes with matching real-time audio and accepts typed prompts mid-simulation. It holds a consistent scene for up to two minutes. Trusted testers get access now; Google AI Ultra subscribers follow in Project Genie.
Rohit Patel leaves Meta after eight years to launch Ndoc, an AI-native workspace pitched as a replacement for Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. Patel says Ndoc opens an alpha to wait-listed customers, free to sign up with charges for usage and tokens. He plans to open-source its .ndoc.html file format.