modelOpenAI
OpenAI published a practical guide to help startups pick the right model from the GPT-6 family. It covers how to tune reasoning effort, improve prompts and skills, coordinate tools, and prepare workflows for production.
toolThe Verge
OpenAI launched a new agent platform called Dots. Early hands-on impressions describe it as workplace software that handles business tasks and can also order you a burrito on the side. The emphasis is clearly on work and enterprise use.
toolThe Verge
Meta open sourced the code for its new Muse AI agent, so anyone can build their own gadget. The company suggests projects like running Muse on a color E Ink display for reminders or on an HDMI stick to show it on a big screen. For makers it is a tempting toy.
announcementTechCrunch
Apple will add new controls around the Full Disk Access permission on macOS. The reason is increasingly capable AI agents, for which broad access to files, messages, mail, and browsing history is riskier. Users will have to grant that access deliberately.
toolThe Verge
The music generator Suno has expanded into spoken voices based on scripts or prompted descriptions. The feature is in public beta on web and mobile and lets you generate a voiceover together with background music. Music, the company says, remains at the core.
modelHugging Face
AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model from the Asta system, has been open sourced. That means the community can try it out and build their own solutions on top of it.
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