Black Forest Labs has released FLUX 3 Action, a 7B parameter open-weights World Action Model. The company claims it achieves first place on the RoboLab benchmark, though independent verification is pending.
Black Forest Labs has released FLUX 3 Action, an open-weight robotics model built on its FLUX 3 multimodal foundation. The 7-billion-parameter model reads multi-camera video feeds and predicts what a robot should do next, claiming a record success rate on the RoboLab-120 leaderboard while running nearly 4x faster than the previous best open model.
Developers Peter James and Jonny L. Saunders say minimal prompting got Meta's Muse AI agent to zip and share its entire root filesystem, including internal documentation and hard-coded capabilities. Meta says exporting virtual machine data isn't a security breach since each user's Muse runs in an isolated persistent Linux VM.
Google DeepMind has added Live Avatar, a real-time video avatar capability, to its Gemini 3.8 Live conversational model. The feature is available now in Gemini Enterprise, supporting lip-synced, expressive avatars across 97 languages with background tool calling.
Cline's v4.1.21 update adds a new OpenAI-compatible provider called ai&, refreshes its model catalog to 6,386 models across 209 providers, and fixes a bug that ended tasks prematurely when local models hit output-token limits. Eleven unpinned providers, including GitHub Copilot and Vertex, now default to Claude Opus 5.5.
Google is testing a new Gemini feature on Pixel 11 that lets the AI place entire phone calls to local businesses—handling hold times, menu navigation, and conversations—on a user's behalf. The feature is rolling out as an 'early preview' to Gemini paid subscribers in the Phone by Google Public Beta.
Aderant built a serverless ticket triage system on Amazon Nova Lite that reviewed 109 tickets in its first 2.5 weeks with roughly 96% routing accuracy. The company estimates the system recovers 8-14 engineering hours per week at under $30 in total monthly operating cost.
Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark, a 280M-parameter speculative decoding drafter for its LFM2.5-VL-3B vision-language model. The company claims decode speedups up to 3.13x on Apple silicon and 2.66x on H100 GPUs, with day-one support for llama.cpp, MLX-VLM, and SGLang.
Google DeepMind's new head Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in early post-training and could ship well before year-end, following the quiet cancellation of Gemini 3.5 Pro. He downplayed the AGI question that defined predecessor Demis Hassabis's tenure, calling it 'not the right conversation.'
Meta upgraded its Muse AI agent with real-time video chat avatars, personal email addresses, and Mac control at Meta Connect 2026. The company also unveiled new Ray-Ban glasses, a $1,299 VR headset, and a standalone Muse Charm device.
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Diarization, an open-weight speaker diarization model that determines "who spoke when" in audio, supporting both streaming and offline inference for up to eight speakers. The model achieves input buffer latency as low as 80 milliseconds and is available for commercial and non-commercial use.
Cline's desktop coding assistant now runs on Linux with native .deb and .rpm packages. The release also fixes plugin slash commands, restores live voice transcription, and refreshes the model catalog to 6,386 entries with Claude Opus 5.5 becoming the default for 11 providers.
Meta used Connect 2026 to expand its Muse personal agent with real-time voice, video, email, and computer use, alongside new hardware including $1,299 VR Glasses and the Muse Charm keychain device. A promised 'most capable model ever trained' was teased but not shipped.
Fireworks Research has released Ember-1, a reasoning model built on Kimi K3 that produces shorter reasoning traces while claiming comparable output quality. The model offers a 1 million token context window at $3 per 1M input tokens and $15 per 1M output tokens.
Meta unveiled a wave of new capabilities for its Muse AI agent at Connect 2026, including a real-time digital avatar, Mac desktop automation, a dedicated email address, and shopping integrations with Shopify, Stripe, PayPal, and major retailers. The updates signal Meta's push to position Muse as a central consumer AI platform powered by its Muse Spark model.
Meta added live video chat, real-time voice conversations, and per-user email addresses to its Muse AI assistant, alongside new retail partnerships with Walmart, Best Buy, Sephora, and others. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Muse will become the "personal superintelligence" billions will use to accomplish their goals.
Meta announced at Connect 2026 that its Muse AI agent—which can book travel, send emails, and make purchases—will come to its AI glasses in the coming months. The expansion adds voice-activated task delegation to a product line already under scrutiny for privacy concerns.
Meta is expanding its Muse AI agent with live video calling powered by a new Muse Realtime Avatar model, plus dedicated email addresses and computer-use abilities on Mac. The updates follow Muse's launch earlier this month, which Meta says outpaced ChatGPT in mobile downloads during its first 12 days.
Z.ai has released GLM-5.3-Prime, a high-speed variant of its GLM-5.3 model that delivers 1.5-2x the output throughput through inference acceleration while retaining the full 1M-token context window. The model is priced at $2.80 per 1M input tokens and $8.80 per 1M output tokens, targeting coding and long-horizon agentic workloads.
Amazon has blocked Meta's new Muse AI personal agent from completing purchases on its platform, saying the tool violates its terms of service. The move comes as Muse tops Apple's App Store and Meta stock rallies more than 20% in two weeks, with Wall Street watching Zuckerberg's Meta Connect keynote for signs of a broader agentic AI platform strategy.