Business
Competitive Performance, Competitive Prices: Amazon introduces Nova models for text, image, and video
Amazon introduced a range of models that confront competitors head-on.
AI Agents
Business
Agents Open the Wallet: Stripe builds ecommerce agent toolkit for AI to securely spend money
One of the world’s biggest payment processors is enabling large language models to spend real money.
Machine Learning Research
Free Agents: OpenHands launches as an open toolkit for advanced code generation and automation
An open source package inspired by the commercial agentic code generator Devin aims to automate computer programming and more.
Machine Learning Research
When Agents Train Algorithms: OpenAI’s MLE-bench tests AI coding agents
Coding agents are improving, but can they tackle machine learning tasks?
Machine Learning Research
Claude Controls Computers: Anthropic empowers Claude Sonnet 3.5 to operate desktop apps, but cautions remain
API commands for Claude Sonnet 3.5 enable Anthropic’s large language model to operate desktop apps much like humans do. Be cautious, though: It’s a work in progress.
Generative AI
Agentic Coding Strides Forward: Genie coding assistant outperforms competitors on SWE-bench by over 30 percent
An agentic coding assistant boosted the state of the art in an important benchmark by more than 30 percent.