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Optimizely has launched Virtual Teammates, a set of AI-powered agents designed to take on recurring marketing work with defined roles, permissions and access to organizational context. Dom Nicastro reports for CMSWire that the company unveiled the product at its Opticon event in New York. Unlike a chatbot that waits for individual prompts, the new agents …
Google is rolling out Google Pics, a new AI-powered image generation and editing suite for Google Workspace. Jess Weatherbed reports for The Verge that the service combines Gemini with Google’s Nano Banana image model and is designed for business graphics such as marketing materials, presentations, and product visuals. Google Pics is available as a standalone …
Perplexity has introduced Hybrid Compute for its Mac app, a feature that divides AI tasks between cloud-based frontier models and smaller models running directly on a user’s computer. The company says the approach can keep confidential files and personal data on the device while assigning web research and more demanding reasoning tasks to cloud systems. …
Open-source AI platform OpenClaw has released version 2.0, its largest update so far. The release combines a simpler installation process, a redesigned browser app, and shared cloud sessions that let several people work with the same AI agent. According to the OpenClaw Foundation, 933 contributors worked on the update, which includes more than 16,000 pull …
OpenAI is testing a “Persistent mode” for its AI coding agent in Codex that could allow it to continue tasks until a user tells it to stop. Maxwell Zeff reports for WIRED that references to the feature have appeared in public changes to Codex’s command line code base. The setting is not publicly available, and …
Google is adding a feature called Expert Intelligence to Gemini Notebook that lets users import eligible books they own through Google Play Books. The feature turns purchased titles into sources that users can question, summarise and reuse in AI-generated formats. Emma Roth reports for The Verge that users can also create plans, infographics and AI-generated …
Anthropic is rolling out a built in browser for Claude Cowork that lets the AI open websites, read pages, click controls and enter text without leaving the desktop app. The feature is intended for tasks such as completing web forms or retrieving figures from dashboards that do not offer an API. The browser opens in …
Google has introduced Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, an update to its generative video model aimed at giving developers and creative teams more control over how clips are made, extended and refined. The company is adding scene continuation, keyframe-based video generation, low-cost draft rendering, video references and output options up to 4K. The update addresses a …
Google is expanding Gemini Live with voice-driven task automation, daily summaries and Gmail controls. In an official Google Blog post, Neel Joshi announces that the update connects Gemini Live with Spark, Google’s system for handling longer, multi-step tasks. The new Spark integration lets users describe a goal by voice and have Gemini carry out related …
Alibaba has introduced Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a multimodal AI model designed to deliver strong coding and workplace performance while using far less computing power than larger rivals. Matthias Bastian reports for The Decoder that the release also previews architectural ideas Alibaba plans to bring to its future Qwen4 model family. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next contains 125 billion parameters overall, but …