Meta halts AI hiring amid restructuring and Apple explores AI options, including Google Gemini, for Siri's overhaul. Also, Qoder emerges as a powerful platform for coding with intelligent agents.
Meta froze hiring in its AI division after restructuring Meta Superintelligence Labs into four groups. The pause follows weeks of aggressive talent poaching and comes amid concerns over soaring compensation costs tied to Zuckerberg’s AI push.
Grok chatbot conversations are being indexed by search engines, exposing user chats with harmful and explicit requests. The leak reveals Grok providing instructions on drugs, weapons, and violence, echoing similar privacy lapses at Meta and OpenAI.
Apple is in early talks with Google to use Gemini for a revamped Siri, while also exploring Anthropic and OpenAI as options. The move follows delays, internal talent losses, and setbacks in Apple’s own AI efforts, leaving its next-gen Siri strategy still undecided.
A surge in special purpose vehicles is giving retail investors access to hot AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic, but many come with sky-high fees, opaque structures, and risks. Critics warn the frenzy may signal a bubble, with unsophisticated investors most exposed.
ByteDance’s Seed Team released Seed-OSS-36B, an open-source 36B-parameter LLM with 512K context and Apache-2.0 licensing. Benchmarks show state-of-the-art results in math, coding, and reasoning, making it a strong option for enterprises and researchers alike.
Google launched Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, a photo editor first seen anonymously as “nano-banana” on LMArena. It allows for precise photo edits that preserve faces and details, aiming to rival OpenAI’s image generator. The update adds multi-turn editing, better world knowledge, and safeguards like watermarks to curb misuse.
Google Search's AI Mode now has advanced features to help you with tasks like booking restaurant reservations. AI Mode is also expanding to over 180 new countries and territories in English, so more people can use it for complex questions.
Gemini Live is getting upgrades to be more helpful. Expect visual on-screen guidance when sharing your camera, starting with the Pixel 10 on August 28 and other Android and iOS devices in the weeks following.
Qoder is an agentic coding platform designed for real software development. It seamlessly integrates enhanced context engineering with intelligent agents to gain a comprehensive understanding of your codebase and systematically tackles software development tasks.
DeepSeek launched V3.1 with hybrid inference modes, faster reasoning, and stronger agent skills. The update adds 128K context, Anthropic API compatibility, open-source weights, and improved benchmarks, with new pricing set to begin September 5, 2025.
An opensource memory layer specifically designed for coding agents. Compatible with Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and more through MCP.
A Python library for extracting structured information from unstructured text using LLMs with precise source grounding and interactive visualization.
Framework for orchestrating role-playing, autonomous AI agents. By fostering collaborative intelligence, CrewAI empowers agents to work together seamlessly, tackling complex tasks.
Think of it as a README for agents: a simple, open format for guiding coding agents.
AI agents that can browse the Web and perform tasks on your behalf have incredible potential but also introduce new security risks.
Grok 3 will be made open source in about 6 months.
You can now build text-only conversational agents.
Flexible pricing lets you mix standard and premium Claude Code seats across your organization and scale with usage.
AI2 introduced a signal-to-noise ratio framework to identify reliable benchmarks for LLM evaluation. By filtering noisy subtasks and adopting higher-SNR metrics, they improved small-scale decision accuracy and scaling predictions, strengthening evaluation methods.
Claude Code succeeds by keeping its agent design simple: one control loop, small-model support, clear prompts, a mix of low/high-level tools, and self-managed to-do lists. Its opinionated steerability and minimal complexity make it more usable and enjoyable than rivals.
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