Anthropic unifies Claude's memory systems across Chat and Cowork, enabling real-time, bidirectional context sharing by default for Free, Pro, and Max users, while automatically excluding sensitive topics like health and politics from storage.
JD.com launches JoyAI-Echo, an open-source AI platform featuring two groundbreaking tools: Echo-LongVideo, capable of generating up to 5-minute multi-shot audio-visual content, and Echo-WM, an omnimodal world model that simultaneously evolves video, sound, music, and speech in response to real-time navigation inputs.
Vercel Connect is now generally available, replacing risky long-lived credential tokens with short-lived, auto-expiring tokens for AI apps, featuring 100+ connectors for services like Slack, GitHub, and Shopify, plus new RBAC controls, audit logs, and token observability across all plans.
Apple unveils two groundbreaking chips — the M6, its first 2-nanometer processor, and the record-breaking M5 Ultra with quad-die architecture and 512GB unified memory — delivering unprecedented on-device AI performance across the new Mac mini and Mac Studio lineups.
FastVideo, a new open-source framework, delivers a groundbreaking 50x video generation speedup across NVIDIA GPUs, Apple Silicon, and cloud platforms, featuring sparse distillation, LoRA finetuning, and real-time inference capabilities, with recent updates adding synchronized video-audio generation and Apple Silicon-optimized models.
OpenAI unveils its first custom AI inference chip, 'Jalapeño,' claiming industry-leading throughput per kilowatt and lower token latency than competing systems across major model families, while simultaneously expanding its data center infrastructure and driving down AI costs through compounding efficiency gains in hardware, software, and model optimization.
Marker, a powerful open-source conversion tool, transforms PDFs, DOCX, XLSX, and more into markdown or JSON at industry-leading speeds of up to 23.7 pages per second, outperforming rivals MinerU and docling with a 76% accuracy benchmark score while supporting optional AI integration via Gemini, Claude, and OpenAI.
OpenAI bans Russian ChatGPT accounts caught running a covert AI-powered disinformation campaign across Substack, Telegram, X, Facebook, and LinkedIn, promoting a fabricated organization with stolen academic content and a fake 'sovereignty index' designed to praise Russia while undermining Western nations.
Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200 million in its largest funding round yet, backed by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, as it scales its driverless middle-mile delivery fleet serving Walmart, Kroger, and PepsiCo, with $600 million in contracted revenue already secured.
Perplexity and Nvidia launch 'Portable Computer,' a local AI agent running powerful open models directly on desktop hardware via Nvidia's DGX Spark, promising lower costs, faster speeds, and greater privacy as a bold challenger to cloud-based AI from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.