Sakana AI · Original source
Sakana AI has announced the Sakana API Platform for enterprise customers and opened an early access program. The OpenAI-compatible platform offers Sakana's models with management tools, including workspaces, role-based access control, audit logs and budget limits. Sakana Fugu, an orchestration model that combines multiple frontier models, and Fugu Ultra are available first, with the Japanese-language Namazu and Fugu Max to follow.
Salesforce · Original source
Slack has made the Slack Code API generally available on all plans, letting any developer's AI agent open a dedicated code channel, add people and files, post progress and archive the channel when work is done. Agents inherit the permissions and admin controls of the channel they work in. Slack says more than 150 customers and partners asked for access, and that GitHub Copilot opens a code channel on 30% of its agent sessions.
Meta · Original source
Meta is granting $2 million across five US universities for research that uses its AI models in medicine and science: Caltech, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Louisiana State University, Indiana University and UTHealth Houston. Projects include an LSU computer vision system to detect dislodged infant tracheostomy tubes, conversational AI for dementia care at Indiana and earlier heart failure risk prediction from routine CT scans at Ohio State.
Amazon · Original source
Amazon says its custom Trainium AI chip helps power Prime 360, which creates cinematic highlights of real game footage during select NBA on Prime broadcasts. Prime 360 captures action with high-resolution cameras around the court and builds highlights frame by frame with compute-intensive diffusion models. Amazon says running that inference on Trainium cut latency by more than 40%, fast enough for in-game use.
Google · Original source
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told the third-quarter 2026 earnings call that revenue grew 25% year on year and Google Cloud revenue grew 103%, driven by AI infrastructure and solutions. Google's first-party model APIs now process nearly 32 billion tokens a minute, and the Gemini app has reached one billion users. Pichai also highlighted Gemini 4 Argon and Carbon, agentic features coming to Search and the Gemini app, and Waymo's 300 million autonomous miles.
Anthropic · Original source
Anthropic has expanded its AI for Science program, which gives free Claude credits to researchers, to 20 scientific foundations, institutions and research groups. Partners include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Simons Foundation, Schmidt Sciences, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Francis Crick Institute. Funders will pass credits on to researchers, while institutions and projects such as Princeton's FlyWire will use them directly.
OpenAI · Original source
OpenAI and ServiceNow are expanding their partnership to bring OpenAI models and agents into ServiceNow products and connect ServiceNow workflows with ChatGPT and Codex. A ServiceNow MCP plugin is available in the OpenAI marketplace now, with a Codex integration in AI Workflow Factory, a joint security product and voice features planned through 2027. ServiceNow also plans to give all of its employees access to ChatGPT Work and Codex.
Google · Original source
Google has announced Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest frontier model, built for long-horizon agentic coding and cybersecurity defence two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon. Google says it ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 59 and leads SEC-bench Pro, ExploitGym and CWE-bench. Carbon goes first to a subset of cyber defenders while it is tested under the US government's voluntary pre-release process, with introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
ElevenLabs · Original source
ElevenLabs has partnered with adELA, Spain's leading ALS association, to give people living with ALS in Spain free access to its voice restoration and preservation technology. It is the first Spanish initiative under the ElevenLabs Impact Program, and Spain is the first country where the technology is offered through a national patient association. Eligible people can record new voice samples or upload older recordings. An estimated 4,000 to 4,500 people in Spain live with ALS.
Meta · Original source
Meta has launched Muse, its personal AI agent, in Singapore on iOS, Android and muse.ai, with AI glasses support coming. Users can connect apps such as Gmail, Google Calendar and Instagram, and early local connector partners include Shopee, Grab, Singapore Airlines, Agoda, ShopBack, Klook, Trip.com and Lazada. Muse runs on Muse Secure VM, which keeps passwords and payment details out of the agent's view. Most features are free, with paid subscription plans.
