Anthropic released v0.124.0 of its Python SDK, graduating the Files and Skills APIs to general availability and introducing new computer use and browser use toolsets. The release is available now on GitHub.
Z.ai's GLM-5.3 ties Kimi K3 for the top spot among open models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, driven by a major leap in agentic task performance. The company is delaying the open-weight release by about two weeks, citing the model's unusually strong vulnerability-detection capabilities.
Anthropic published two experiments showing Claude models autonomously running open-source protein design software end-to-end, claiming hit rates of 26.8% against an industry baseline of 10-15%. Independent verification of the results is still pending.
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains now supports enterprise managed settings, letting administrators enforce consistent policies for plugin governance, MCP server access, OpenTelemetry, and permission modes across their organization.
Cursor has launched Origin, a code hosting platform that handles repositories, pull requests, and collaborative editing — directly competing with GitHub. The launch coincided with a six-hour global GitHub outage with a reported 20% error rate.
Z.ai has released GLM-5.3, a large-scale reasoning model aimed at software engineering and long-horizon agent tasks, featuring a 1M-token context window and mandatory reasoning that cannot be disabled. The model is priced at $1.40 per 1M input tokens and $4.40 per 1M output tokens on OpenRouter.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, built with Coinbase and Stripe, is now generally available after a May preview. The service lets AI agents autonomously pay for paywalled content, APIs, and per-inference compute using stablecoin wallets with spending caps and audit logging.
Artificial Analysis has released the Search Index, a benchmark measuring how search API providers perform for AI agents across quality, cost, and speed. Parallel, Exa, and Firecrawl lead the initial rankings, with search access boosting model scores from 33 to as high as 75 points.
Anthropic announced that Claude Cowork, its workspace-focused feature, is now available on mobile and web for all paid plans. The rollout began last month exclusively on Anthropic's most expensive tier before expanding today.
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Teens, a version of its chatbot that activates automatically when systems estimate a user is 13-17, applying default safety guardrails and study-focused features. The rollout includes homework shortcut detection, quizzes, learning visualizations, and expanded parental notifications covering eating disorder risk signals.
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B-parameter hybrid Mixture-of-Experts model with only 3B active parameters, is now available for one-click deployment on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. NVIDIA claims up to 4x higher throughput and 30% faster task completion for high-volume agentic workloads compared to larger frontier models.
GitHub published a blog post arguing that canvas-style interfaces—rather than chat logs—are better suited for tracking and steering agentic coding workflows in Copilot. The post frames canvases as a way to keep long-running agent work visible and controllable without re-running expensive steps.
Axiom Math's AI system AxiomProver has formally verified the proof of the '246 theorem,' a landmark result from the Polymath8b collaboration on prime gaps. The company says the achievement builds a reusable library for future formalization work and points toward AI verification of software code.
Google Workspace ships with Gemini's access to Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Chat, Drive, and Meet turned on by default, using real-time retrieval-augmented generation rather than stored training data. Admins can disable these 'Workspace Intelligence Sources' organization-wide through the admin.google.com console, though per-user controls remain limited.
Anthropic is embedding a statistical watermark in Claude's text output, based on Google's SynthID-Text method, to comply with EU AI Act rules. Critics argue the technique degrades word choice quality, while legal analysts warn it could create new disclosure headaches for law firms.
Microsoft will shut down Excel's COPILOT() worksheet function on September 14, 2026, roughly a year after its preview launch. The company says the Copilot side pane already covers the same capabilities, so a planned 2027 general availability release has been scrapped.
Alibaba's Qwen research lab has released Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2.0 licensed, vision-capable model with a 262,144-token context window. Independent testing found the model's default 'xhigh' reasoning setting causes it to massively overthink simple prompts, turning quick tasks into 20-minute ordeals.
A study involving Google's Paradigms of Intelligence group found that training AI models to deny consciousness has unintended side effects, altering their attributed sentience to animals and even their apparent religious beliefs. Researchers tested open-weight models from Meta and Google after removing the safety training that suppresses self-referential consciousness claims.
Artificial Analysis has launched Optima, a platform that lets users build custom AI benchmarks using their own data, workflows, or use-case descriptions. Unlike public benchmarks, Optima compares models on cost per task and time per task in addition to quality.
Anthropic published a blog post explaining the mechanics of its planned watermarking system for Claude, which uses Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text approach. The move is required under the EU AI Act's Transparency Code and has triggered user backlash on Reddit and X.