Hume AI has released TADA-1B, a 1 billion parameter text-to-speech model available on Hugging Face under an MIT license. The model, which combines speech and language capabilities, has already accumulated over 3,100 downloads since its January 12 release.
Qualcomm and Wayve announced a technical partnership to integrate Wayve's AI driving layer with Qualcomm's hardware platform for production-ready advanced driver assistance systems. The collaboration aims to accelerate autonomous vehicle innovation by combining hardware and software expertise.
Google is expanding Gemini in Chrome beyond the US to Canada, India, and New Zealand. The expansion includes support for over 50 languages, following the feature's initial US launch in September 2025 and a major update in January 2026.
GitHub has released the Copilot SDK, positioning executable agent workflows as the successor to prompt-based AI interactions. The SDK enables developers to integrate agentic AI capabilities directly into applications rather than relying on text-based prompt-response patterns.
GitHub is positioning AI interaction as a shift from prompt-response text interfaces to programmable execution models. The company announced a GitHub Copilot SDK that enables agentic workflows to run directly within applications, marking a transition toward AI systems that take concrete actions rather than generate text responses.
OpenAI has integrated interactive visualizations into ChatGPT for mathematics and physics explanations. Users can now modify variables and observe real-time graph updates across more than 70 available concepts.
ABB and NVIDIA have partnered to deploy physical AI simulation in factory automation, addressing the critical sim-to-real gap that has limited intelligent robotics deployment. The approach uses digital physics simulation to train models that transfer reliably to actual factory floors, reducing production hurdles and securing measurable ROI.
Google is deploying specialized AI agents built on Gemini to the Department of Defense for use on unclassified projects and operations. The expansion represents a deepening of Google's existing defense partnership and signals potential future deployment to classified government work.
Meta has acquired Moltbook, a Reddit-like platform where AI agents autonomously make and comment on posts. The Moltbook team, founded by Matt Schlict and Ben Parr earlier this year, will join Meta Superintelligence Labs. The platform runs on OpenClaw, an open-source AI assistant formerly called Moltbot.
Nvidia and Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, have announced a long-term partnership. Details on the scope and terms of the collaboration remain limited.
Thinking Machines Lab has secured a multi-year compute deal with Nvidia involving at least 1 gigawatt of processing power, according to the company. The agreement also includes a strategic investment from Nvidia, marking a significant infrastructure commitment for the AI research organization.
Meta has acquired Moltbook, a platform built as a Reddit-style community space specifically for AI agents. The acquisition signals Meta's expanding focus on infrastructure for agent-to-agent interaction and collaboration.
Google is rolling out AI Overviews to Google Drive alongside enhanced Gemini features in Slides and Sheets. The updates position Drive as an "active knowledge base" rather than passive storage and are available starting today for AI Pro, AI Ultra, and Gemini Alpha business customers in US-English.
Google has expanded Gemini's integration into Google Docs with new co-editing features that enable real-time collaboration between users and the AI assistant. The upgrade brings a more integrated experience similar to Google's Canvas product, allowing Gemini to participate directly in document editing workflows alongside human collaborators.
AMI Labs, cofounded by Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun, has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation. The funding will support the company's effort to develop world models, marking a major commitment to foundational AI research outside of existing tech giants.
Nvidia is preparing to launch an open-source AI agent platform, according to reports ahead of the company's annual developer conference. The move mirrors approaches by competitors like OpenAI in building agent-based AI systems.
Amazon Bedrock now offers NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano as a fully managed serverless model, expanding its Nemotron portfolio alongside previously available Nemotron 2 Nano 9B and Nemotron 2 Nano VL 12B variants. The addition enables developers to deploy NVIDIA's smallest inference-optimized model without managing infrastructure.
Amazon Bedrock now enables access to Anthropic Claude models in India with global cross-region inference support. The service allows developers to build generative AI applications with Claude variants across AWS regions.
Anthropic has launched Code Review, a multi-agent system within Claude Code that automatically analyzes AI-generated code and flags logic errors. The tool addresses enterprise concerns about managing the increasing volume of code produced by AI systems.
OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo, an AI security platform, to integrate automated vulnerability testing directly into its Frontier enterprise offering. The acquisition adds jailbreak detection, prompt injection testing, and data leak identification capabilities to OpenAI's enterprise product.