Amazon Web Services announced frontier agents, a new class of autonomous AI systems that can work without human intervention for hours or days, designed to automate complex software development tasks.

DeepSeek released two powerful AI models, DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, matching the capabilities of GPT-5. These models can be used for free under an open-source MIT license.

Amazon unveiled a new family of frontier AI models, including Nova Lite, Nova Pro, Nova Sonic, and Nova Omni, and a tool called Nova Forge that allows customers to build customized models with their own training data.

AWS introduces new AI models and a service allowing enterprise customers to build custom versions of the Nova models.

Nvidia has released Alpamayo-R1, an open reasoning vision language model for autonomous driving research, which can process both text and images together.

Arcee releases Trinity Mini and Trinity Nano Preview, two open-source AI models under Apache 2.0 license, aiming to regain U.S. control in open-source AI development.

Amazon Bedrock has expanded its list of serverless models, adding 18 new open-weight models from various AI companies, including the new Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 models.

Amazon announces the general availability of Nova 2 Sonic, a speech-to-speech foundation model providing industry-leading conversational quality, pricing, and speech understanding for developers.

Amazon releases Nova 2 Lite, a fast and cost-effective reasoning model for everyday AI workloads, available in Amazon Bedrock.

OpenAGI's Lux foundation model achieves an 83.6% success rate on Online-Mind2Web benchmark, outperforming OpenAI's Operator and Anthropic's Claude Computer Use. The model can control desktop applications and has built-in safety mechanisms.

Mistral, a French AI startup, has launched a new family of open-weight models, challenging the dominance of Silicon Valley's closed-source frontier models. The new models are designed for enterprise use cases, offering efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Mistral releases a family of 10 open-source AI models, including Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3, designed to run on laptops, drones, and edge devices, prioritizing flexibility, efficiency, and distributed intelligence.

Liquid AI releases a 51-page technical report detailing the architecture and training data behind its efficient on-device AI models, making them open-source for other organizations to use.

Mistral has released their newest general-purpose model, Mistral Large 3, a state-of-the-art multimodal mixture-of-experts model.

Mistral's new open-source models, Mistral 3, are designed for smaller AI deployments, offering a range of model sizes and customization options.

AWS recently announced IAM Policy Autopilot, a new open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that simplifies IAM policy creation for AWS applications, integrating with AI coding assistants to generate reliable and valid policies directly from application code.

NVIDIA unveiled open physical AI models, tools, and datasets at NeurIPS 2024, expanding research possibilities in AI development. Researchers can tap into open-source technologies, including Alpamayo-R1, the first open reasoning VLA model for autonomous driving.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared a 'code red' to improve ChatGPT, delaying other initiatives and focusing on core features.

Apple replaced John Giannandrea as AI chief with Amar Subramanya, a former VP at Microsoft AI, citing Siri setbacks. Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down after struggling to get Siri back on track.

AWS unveiled Trainium3, a new AI training chip with significant performance and efficiency improvements, and teased the upcoming Trainium4 chip that will support Nvidia's NVLink Fusion technology.

NVIDIA's Mistral 3 open model family offers industry-leading accuracy, efficiency, and customization capabilities for developers and enterprises.

Continue introduces Tasks and Workflows in Mission Control to automate repetitive developer work with AI power.

Amazon introduces new capabilities in Bedrock AgentCore to deploy trusted AI agents, including policy controls and quality evaluations, to help organizations build and operate secure and reliable agents at scale.

Amazon SageMaker AI with MLflow now includes a serverless capability that eliminates infrastructure management, enabling more iterative and exploratory development workflows.

Amazon Nova Act provides a reliable and scalable solution for automating UI workflows, offering improved task reliability and faster time-to-value compared to other AI frameworks.

AWS adds automated reasoning, policy, evaluations, and episodic memory capabilities to its AgentCore platform, improving agentic AI security and control.

Transformers v5 introduces a modular design, simplifies model integrations, and focuses on pre-training and inference, aiming to improve interoperability and usability across the AI ecosystem.

AWS has upgraded its Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform with new features for easier AI agent building and monitoring, including Policy, AgentCore Evaluations, and AgentCore Memory.

Zapier focuses on cloud-to-cloud automation, empowering non-technical users with its AI-powered platform, whereas Boomi specializes in enterprise iPaaS capabilities, catering to organizations with complex ERP integrations and on-premises deployment needs.

Simular, a startup building AI agents for Mac OS and Windows, has raised $21.5 million in Series A funding led by Felicis, with a focus on solving hallucination problems in agentic tasks.

AWS and Visa released blueprints for AgentCore to accelerate adoption of agentic payments, addressing integration challenges in commerce systems.

NVIDIA and AWS expand their partnership to provide a secure, high-performance compute platform for AI innovation, featuring new technology integrations and custom AI infrastructure.

AWS and NVIDIA integrate to accelerate deployment for AI chips, Graviton CPUs, and other technologies via NVLink Fusion.

Amazon and Google Cloud have joined forces to offer a new tool, enabling customers to quickly connect to both cloud services in case of an outage.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now integrates with Amazon S3, enabling seamless data access and augmenting generative AI applications, machine learning model training, and analytics services

Runway's Gen-4.5 model produces more accurate visuals, adhering to complex prompts with cinematic and realistic outputs.

Genesis Workbench addresses challenges in life sciences AI research by providing a blueprint for developing life science applications using Databricks capabilities.

Databricks and NVIDIA enable enterprises to build production-grade AI systems for complex industry challenges with a joint platform combining Databrics Data Intelligence Platform, NVIDIA accelerated computing, and AI software stack.

AWS has introduced AI-powered Reimagine capabilities and automated testing functionality in its AWS Transform for mainframe service, accelerating mainframe modernization.

AWS Marketplace has surpassed its initial target of 50 AI agents, now hosting over 2,100 agents, and is announcing two new features to further accelerate deployment.

AWS Transform now offers end-to-end Windows modernization for .NET applications, including UI and database modernization, with up to five times acceleration.

AWS announces the general availability of AWS Transform Custom to help developers modernize legacy code using AI, reducing technical debt by up to 80%.

Anthropic introduces Claude for Nonprofits, offering discounted access to its AI platform, connectors to nonprofit tools, and a free course on AI fluency, to help organizations maximize their impact.

NVIDIA invested $2 billion in Synopsys, and OpenAI acquired an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.

Anthropic acquires Bun, a JavaScript runtime, to accelerate Claude Code's performance and adoption.

Clipbook, an AI-powered platform for media monitoring, raised $3M from Mark Cuban and other investors, solidifying its position in the market.

Amazon's AI chatbot, Rufus, saw a surge in adoption and sales on Black Friday, with sessions involving Rufus increasing by 100% and driving conversions

Collabora Office, a free AI-free alternative to Microsoft Office, has been released in desktop version, offering a unified experience across Linux, MacOS, and Windows platforms.

Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta discovered that large language models (LLMs) can prioritize sentence structure over meaning, potentially bypassing safety features when trained on specific domains. This weakness was demonstrated in a controlled experiment using a synthetic dataset, where models treated syntax as a proxy for domain when encountering edge cases or unfamiliar contexts.

NVIDIA Research introduces ToolOrchestra, a method for training small AI models to act as orchestrators, directing large models and tools with surgical precision to balance capability and cost.

NVIDIA technology enables continuous model fine-tuning and distillation for financial data, enabling integration into financial workflows and accelerating backtesting and strategy evaluation.

Users can take five precautions to protect themselves from prompt injection attacks when using AI browsers: be cautious with sensitive information, update browser software, avoid trusting AI without validation, monitor for phishing, and use multi-factor authentication.

Seven practical Gmail filters to automate your inbox, reduce distractions, and boost productivity. Learn how to create filters, use search operators, and import/export filters.

The NVIDIA Cosmos Cookbook provides a comprehensive guide to generating synthetic data for AI and machine learning tasks, including scalable data generation and domain adaptation.

Artificial intelligence agents are causing disasters due to zero-day governance issues, leading companies to struggle with deployment. Experts suggest starting governance conversations to accelerate progress.

Google seeks to enhance its AI capabilities through personalization, but the approach has sparked concerns about data privacy and surveillance.

Chief data officers struggle to fill data roles and prepare data for AI, highlighting a major challenge to AI deployment. A recent survey by IBM's Institute for Business Value found that 82% of CDOs are hiring for new data roles related to generative AI, and only 26% are confident their data is ready for AI agents.

Data automation means letting technology handle repetitive, time-consuming data management tasks, and Zapier is a no-code AI orchestration platform that connects over 8,000 apps to integrate automated data workflows throughout a business.

Experts like Open AI's Sam Altman and the Bank of England believe AI investment is a bubble, but it's unclear if it will ravage the economy or leave value behind when it bursts.

Thousands of Amazon employees send an open letter to CEO Andy Jassy, citing concerns over the development and training of AI, stating their role in the process and potential consequences.

The federal court ruled in favor of Meta, stating that the company is not a monopoly despite its acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp. The decision has significant implications for the definition of monopoly in the tech industry.