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  1. SpikeAI at MetaNewsModelsMeta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weight model for coding and agents816B total, 42B active, 1M-token context. Artificial Analysis ranks it the top US open-weight model, though the licence requires attribution and a deal for providers over $20M.
  2. ReflectionNewsOpen sourceReflection releases Beam with open weights under Apache 2.0A second large open model in a day, but with a fully permissive licence: weights, tokenizer, reference code and FP8/NVFP4 builds, so teams can self-host and ship commercially with no strings.
  3. OpenAINewsAgentsChatGPT Pro can now run multiple agents on one task in parallelGPT-6 Pro splits a task across agents you can monitor and review individually, a sign that parallel multi-agent workflows are moving from dev tools into the mainstream chat product.
  4. Tencent HyNewsAgentsTencent open-sources Hy Memory 2.0, a model just for agent memoryA 30B (3B active) model, framework and cross-tool sync for deciding what agents should remember. Memory is becoming its own layer of the agent stack rather than a prompt trick.
  5. AnthropicNewsSafetyAnthropic gives METR employee-like access to audit its safety practicesMoves third-party evaluation from testing finished models to inspecting how a lab actually works internally, a possible template for other labs and regulators.
  6. OpenAINewsModelsOpenAI upgrades ChatGPT Voice with GPT-Live-1.1New voices and accents, including Hindi, and less stalling, rolling out to all users with API access next. Part of a wider voice race that also saw Grok Voice 3.0 top a reliability benchmark.
  7. Simons FoundationNewsResearchSimons Foundation, OpenAI and Anthropic commit $15M to AI in maths researchWorkshops and free compute to help mathematicians verify and build on AI-generated results, after OpenAI's batch of 700 AI-written papers unsettled the field.

  1. Google DeepMindNewsAgentsFour Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft from scratch in 27 hoursWorking only through code and text, the agents wrote 2,783 programs and split up jobs over chat, a vivid long-horizon multi-agent result.

  1. OpenAINewsResearchOpenAI opens GPT-Rosalind to academic research labsA new academic plan puts OpenAI's life-sciences model in university labs, widening access beyond pharma partners.

  1. AnthropicNewsPolicyAnthropic opens a Singapore office and signs an AI safety MOU with the governmentIts fifth Asia-Pacific office comes with a government agreement on AI safety and research, extending lab-government testing ties beyond the US and UK.

  1. AnthropicNewsSecurityAnthropic explains how it cut the effectiveness of distillation attacks on ClaudeDetails on stopping rivals from training on Claude's outputs, a growing fight as open models close the gap.
  2. CursorNewsAgentsCursor and Grok join a bundled X SubscriptionGrok, Cursor and X Premium now share one plan and usage pool from $8 a month, a notable bundling of a coding agent with a consumer assistant.
  3. Tesla RobotaxiNewsAgentsPersonal Grok Bots come to Tesla Robotaxi and CybercabRiders can sign in and talk to their own personal agent during rides. The same agent is following users across phone, desktop and car.

  1. AnthropicNewsResearchAnthropic begins publishing regular reports on model behaviourMore frequent disclosures between system cards give outsiders a steadier view of how deployed models actually behave.

  1. AnthropicNewsSecurityAnthropic launches the Cyber Mission to secure critical infrastructure and open sourceA dedicated effort to use its models to find and fix vulnerabilities in critical systems and open-source software.
  2. ClaudeNewsAgentsClaude adds live dashboards and animated explainers in betaClaude Dashboards and Claude Motion turn data and ideas into live, shareable artifacts, pushing chat assistants toward building small apps.