OpenAI has introduced GPT-6.1 Terra, a new model designed for visual reasoning, computer use, writing, and coding tasks at lower prices than its predecessor. OpenAI announces in an official blog post that the model is available in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and through its API. The company positions Terra as a model for high-volume workplace tasks. …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says more than 10 million people in the United States and Canada have created a Muse AI agent since the app launched in September. Natalie Musumeci and Sydney Bradley report for Business Insider that shopping has become the app’s leading use case. More than 25% of Muse users complete purchases through …
Walmart is launching an Agent Gateway that lets approved AI agents search its online inventory and place orders for customers. Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch that the retailer is also introducing Agent Profiles and specific rules for agents using its services. The Agent Gateway uses the Model Context Protocol, or MCP. This standard enables AI …
AI agents from major technology companies are encountering growing resistance from the websites they are meant to use on behalf of people. Travel, finance, retail, and review platforms are restricting automated access, limiting promises that agents can book tickets, shop, or manage accounts across the web. Emma Roth reports for The Verge that Yelp permits …
Nvidia has introduced OpenShell Reference Architecture, a framework designed to help companies run AI agents with tighter security controls. The system combines software, network hardware, monitoring, and access policies to restrict what an agent can do while it works. The announcement arrives as businesses look to deploy agents that can handle tasks independently but remain …
Anthropic has opened a research preview for Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent designed to monitor work, complete assigned tasks, and alert users when decisions need their attention. The product is available through a waitlist to Claude Pro and Max subscribers in the United States. Claude Duet is separate from the main Claude chat experience. …
MiniMax has released M3.1 Flash, a new AI model designed for tasks that require software tools, web interfaces, and long sequences of actions. In an official blog post, MiniMax announces that the model is available through its API, M Plan subscription, and MiniMax Code development environment. The company positions M3.1 Flash as a model for …
Meta has released the weights for Muse Spark Open, a multimodal open-weight model designed for coding, complex reasoning, and agent-based workflows. Meta announces in an official post on Meta AI Research that the model has 816 billion total parameters, with 42 billion active for each response, and supports a context window of up to one …
Nvidia has released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120-billion-parameter model designed to help enterprise AI agents work with documents, charts, tables, images and webpages. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the model is aimed at tasks where an agent must combine visual information, written instructions, company policies and external tools. The launch adds visual …
Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, an open-weight reasoning model designed to run AI agents locally on consumer and enterprise hardware. Liquid AI announces in an official blog post that the model contains 24 billion parameters but activates only 2 billion for each token it processes. That mixture-of-experts design aims to reduce the computing work required …