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Factory released Droid 1.0, a model-independent coding agent harness that makes programmatic tool calling the default. On Factory’s own Terminal-Bench 4 runs, Droid scores 65.2% with Claude Opus 5.5 at $4.73 per passed task.
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Google’s Genie 4 can create astonishing interactive worlds, but claims that it represents progress toward AGI feel premature.
Anthropic warns that future is soon, but the threat is less novel than it seems.
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will honour one shared AI training opt-out in robots.txt. It lets a website keep its content out of generative AI training with a single rule. Today, a site that wants to say no has to write separate rules for each company’s crawler.
Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 model blocking attempts at videogame recreation — users also claim their non-malicious generic reverse-engineering tasks are block
Your Microsoft 365 Family plan will transition to a new (smaller) shared storage model when you renew it.
Almost 40% of British singles have used AI for romantic advice, from writing messages to assessing potential partners After Sam’s ex joked that her sister found him ugly, he turned to AI. Google Gemini had a look at the photo and politely disagreed.
Vercel Labs released agent-desktop, an Apache-2.0 Rust CLI that gives any AI agent computer use on macOS, Windows and Linux by reading OS accessibility trees and acting on stable refs instead of pixels.
Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley released TokenEconomizer, an open-source plugin that learns from past sessions to cut coding agent token costs by 18.4% to 30.9% on SWE-Bench, with no change to the agent.
Anthropic, OpenAI, Cloudflare and Google each released an AI agent that hunts security bugs in source code. All 4 use the same find, disprove, then patch loop. Here is how they differ, plus 12 more tools.
Samaya AI’s Sterling is a post-trained Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model for financial research. It scores 58.9% on FrontierFinance at $0.61 per question, beating Claude Fable 5.1’s 55.9% at $6.89.
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