GitHub has added the Microsoft C++ Language Server as a plugin to the Copilot CLI marketplace. The plugin includes a built-in setup skill designed to automate C++ project configuration.
Amazon Bedrock now supports NVIDIA Nemotron and OpenAI GPT OSS models in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The launch includes OpenAI's GPT OSS models (120B and 20B parameters, 128K context) and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 family (9B to 120B parameters, 1M context), providing government agencies FedRAMP High and DoD SRG Level 5-compliant AI inference on U.S. soil.
Amazon has added metadata filtering to its AgentCore Memory service for AI agents. In AWS evaluations across 151 questions, the feature improved overall question-answering accuracy from 40% to 64%, with context-dependent questions jumping from 16% to 69% accuracy. The update allows agents to filter memory retrieval by attributes like priority, department, or time range before semantic search runs.
Anthropic is redeploying Claude Fable 5 after a month-long government-mandated takedown triggered by Amazon researchers discovering a method to bypass the model's cybersecurity safeguards. The returning version includes enhanced safety classifiers that automatically block cybersecurity tasks and revert to Opus 4.8, with restricted availability through usage credits only.
Portugal has released Amália, its first national AI model trained specifically for European Portuguese. Built on EuroLLM-9B with 9 billion parameters, the model is fully open-source with weights, datasets, and code published under an open license. The government has committed €5.5m in initial funding through 2027.
GitHub has made browser tools for Copilot in VS Code generally available. The feature allows Copilot agents to control real browsers, navigate live web applications, and integrate findings back into the development environment.
Google has released Gemini Spark for macOS, bringing its AI agent to desktop computers for the first time. The update adds integrations with Google Keep and Tasks, plus third-party apps including Canva, Dropbox, Instacart, OpenTable, and Zillow Rentals.
Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5 and restored access to its Fable and Mythos frontier models after an 18-day operational pause. The suspension began June 12 following a US government export control directive targeting the company's highest-capability systems.
Amazon Web Services announced it will make Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 models available on Bedrock starting tomorrow, featuring guardrails designed to prevent cybersecurity misuse. When guardrails are triggered, the system automatically falls back to Claude Opus 4.8.
The US government has removed export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models, ending a ban that forced the company to cut off public access on June 12. Anthropic will begin restoring access on July 1 after agreeing to proactively detect security risks and coordinate with the US government on protocols for current and future model releases.
Anthropic will restore access to Claude Fable 5 on July 1, 2026, after the US Department of Commerce lifted export controls that forced the company to disable the model on June 12. The controls were imposed after Amazon researchers allegedly demonstrated that specific prompts could elicit information useful for cyberattacks.
Anthropic announced it will begin restoring access to Claude Fable 5 after the Department of Commerce lifted export controls that had blocked foreign nationals from using the model since early June. The consumer-facing model, built on the same underlying technology as Mythos 5 but with additional safeguards, was sidelined following a Trump administration ultimatum over jailbreak concerns.
Google is rolling out Ask Gemini and AI Overviews to Google Drive's Android and iOS apps. The features enable multi-turn conversations across Drive, Gmail, Chat, Calendar, and web search, available to AI Pro, Ultra, Business Standard/Plus, and Enterprise Standard/Plus subscribers in English plus 28 additional languages.
Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image, also called Nano Banana 2 Lite, which the company describes as its fastest and cheapest image generation model. The model is available through Google's AI Studio and Gemini API with the identifier gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image.
Google is rolling out third-party app support for Gemini Spark, its 24/7 personal agent available to Google AI Ultra subscribers. The update includes Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration and real-time event tracking capabilities.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 with a 1 million token context window and 128,000 token maximum output. The model removes traditional sampling parameters and introduces a new tokenizer that generates approximately 30% more tokens than Sonnet 4.6 for the same English text—effectively a significant price increase despite unchanged nominal rates of $3/million input and $15/million output tokens.
Google has released Gemini Spark for its macOS desktop app in version 1.80.15. The AI agent can now access local files and folders to automate workflows, organize files, and perform tasks directly on users' computers instead of requiring a remote browser environment.
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite, an image generation model that produces images in four seconds at under four cents per thousand images. The model prioritizes speed and cost over quality, targeting developers building high-volume image pipelines.
Anthropic is starting an internal drug discovery program focused on neglected diseases while launching Claude Science, a product designed for pharmaceutical companies. Life sciences head Eric Kauderer-Abrams said the program aims to provide feedback for developing better AI tools for drugmakers.
Cline, the VSCode AI coding assistant, released v4.0.5 with support for Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.5 across seven API providers. The update includes model picker integration and pricing corrections for the model.