Xiaomi has launched MiMo-V2-Pro, a large language model the Chinese electronics and car manufacturer claims can compete with leading American AI systems at significantly lower cost. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the model approaches the performance of OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s top offerings while costing roughly one sixth to one seventh as much per use. …
AI agents are no longer just for software developers. Tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, which started as coding assistants, are now being positioned to handle everything from booking travel to managing medical records. Kate Clark reports for The Wall Street Journal that the companies behind these tools see a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity in …
Google’s Gemini AI can now navigate apps on your smartphone and complete tasks on your behalf. Allison Johnson reports for The Verge that the feature, currently in beta, is available on the Pixel 10 Pro and the Galaxy S26 Ultra and limited to a small number of food delivery and rideshare apps. The feature runs …
Anthropic has released Claude Code Channels, a feature that lets developers send messages to a running Claude Code session directly from Telegram or Discord. A developer can type a prompt on their phone, and Claude executes the task on their desktop or server and replies through the same messaging app. The feature is built on …
Adobe has launched Firefly Custom Models in public beta, allowing creators and businesses to train AI image generators using their own visual assets. The tool lets users teach the AI to recognize and reproduce specific styles, character designs, color palettes, lighting conditions, and stroke weights. The goal is to help teams produce large volumes of …
OpenAI is discontinuing its Sora video platform app as part of a broader strategic shift toward business and coding tools. Berber Jin reports for the Wall Street Journal that CEO Sam Altman announced the changes to staff, saying the company would wind down all products built on its video models. The shutdown affects the consumer-facing …
As artificial intelligence becomes a standard workplace tool, companies are beginning to monitor how much it actually costs to use. Katherine Bindley reports for the Wall Street Journal that businesses are tracking employee AI consumption through a metric called tokens, the basic unit that measures computing effort behind every AI interaction. For text-based tasks, roughly …
Nvidia has unveiled NemoClaw, a software stack that integrates with OpenClaw, the autonomous AI agent platform that became one of the fastest-growing open-source projects in recent history. The announcement came at Nvidia’s annual GTC conference in San Jose. NemoClaw is not a replacement for OpenClaw. It functions as an enterprise-ready distribution of the platform, installing …
Manus, the AI agent developed by the company of the same name, can now operate directly on users’ computers. The company writes in the official announcement that the new “My Computer” feature is part of the Manus Desktop application and enables the agent to access local files, applications, and development tools through terminal commands. Previously, …
Val Kilmer will appear in the upcoming film “As Deep as the Grave” through generative AI, despite never having filmed a single scene before his death in 2025. Coerte Voorhees reports for Variety that the late actor was originally cast as Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist, but throat cancer prevented him …