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Grok Bot launches in early beta
Introducing Grok Bot, now in early beta. Bots are AI teammates that do real work for you. They sign in to your tools, use them just like you do, and come back with finished work. https://t.co/uyfA97yo98

ChatGPT Work and Codex sync now in ChatGPT desktop app
You can now keep your work from other agents in sync with ChatGPT Work and Codex. Import projects, chats, skills, and plugins, review your import history, and opt in to automatic updates in Settings. Now available in the ChatGPT desktop app. https://t.co/G7OcCIvhj6

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning available in Perplexity Agent API
.@NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is now available in the Perplexity Agent API 🎉 An open 30B MoE model with 3B active parameters, built for the high-volume execution layer of always-on agents: tool calls, validation, and subagent work. Pair Nemotron Lightning 3.5 with frontier https://t.co/5QuTfxOObO

Kraken deploys utility-specific AI agents
Four weeks from project launch to live production. That's how fast Kraken deployed utility-specific AI agents that handle complex, regulated, domain-specific journeys for 1.3 million customer accounts. Read more: https://t.co/C6i16XwQ6F https://t.co/5wB9LenROZ

Google Cloud and IBM launch Google Cloud Practice
New partnership alert: We launched a new Google Cloud Practice with @IBM—expanding IBM Consulting Advantage, an AI‑powered delivery platform, with industry‑specific agents for Gemini Enterprise. Moving AI from pilot to production just got a big upgrade → https://t.co/Vrf2bHT0OX https://t.co/reCOtmbSuN

Origin goes live
Origin, our code hosting platform, is now live. It's fast, easy to use, and deeply integrated with Cursor. Get started by syncing your repos from GitHub. https://t.co/aqRHavAOQg

Claude
Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use. Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available. https://t.co/2AvmEjHIX8

Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd general purpose instances are now available
Amazon EC2 M9g & M9gd instances are now available. https://t.co/KKDwMTqZ7a

Value-prop ads in Claude
Introducing value-prop ads in Claude We made a skill /goose-video that teaches Claude to one-shot the cleanest ad format there is: your product, your value props, one at a time. Great marketing is easy to understand. This format is nothing but the reasons to buy — each one https://t.co/3xZotpHGAd

Procedures in ElevenAgents
Introducing Procedures in ElevenAgents - packaged playbooks that let you define how agents operate. Just as employees follow standard operating procedures (SOPs), Procedures provide agents with a set of instructions to follow in common scenarios. https://t.co/99beiM4B33

Midjourney launches big-batch draft mode for V8.1
We've released a new big-batch draft mode for V8.1. This new mode lets you generate 24 lower resolution images at the half the price of a Standard res 4-image Midjourney Job. When you like an image just press "Vary" to get new versions at full resolution. Enjoy! https://t.co/AwOBP5rnfh

Qwen-Robot Suite
📣 Introducing the Qwen-Robot Suite — Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip, Qwen-RobotWorld, three foundation models, a full stack for embodied intelligence. 🧠Qwen-RobotNav — the gateway to mobility. • Unifies 5 navigation tasks in one model: instruction following, point-goal, https://t.co/noumjTtTeS

Mellum2
Mellum2 just launched! Experience strong performance across coding and language tasks, with low latency and high throughput. Powered by a new mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture and optimized for ultra-low-latency inference. Try Mellum2: https://t.co/Rf4w5gs9In https://t.co/9DADup81fj

Objection
Tracked launches from @theprimary.

Airtable - Hyperagent
We’re giving away $10,000,000 to founders building agent-first businesses. Autonomous, proactive agents will run tomorrow's companies. We're backing 500 founders building them. The Founding 500. https://t.co/u8mxRWEXiT https://t.co/chZDnNOnlM

Subquadratic
Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence. It is the first model built on a fully sub-quadratic sparse-attention architecture (SSA), And the first frontier model with a 12 million token context window which is: - 52x faster than FlashAttention at 1MM tokens - https://t.co/eZL0VOqBB4

Pika Labs launches Voxel-It Skill
Everything is better in blocks. Introducing the new Voxel-It Skill—upload any photo and watch it turn into a Minecraft-style world. The Skill voxelizes the background, object, or both, while keeping the people perfectly human. https://t.co/9HWYmsdQmd

Replit Desktop
Now introducing Replit Desktop, a seamless way to multitask and get the best of Replit right on your Desktop. Supported for both Windows and Mac. https://t.co/1lYG4i4Xqx

SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches ViaSat 3-F3
Captured by Anduril's network of 400 telescopes deployed around the globe: The second stage of the Falcon Heavy launch of ViaSat 3-F3 performing a routine thrust event. This produced a spiraled-shaped plume effect, a nominal part of operations for a successful launch of https://t.co/JM81b5u7f8

Krea launches beta in Slack
today we introduce a beta of Krea in Slack. expand your team’s creative work with the latest AI models and an agent that adapts to your preferences. try it now at krea . ai https://t.co/q2HnRuU2VE