Google’s AI That Clicks, Scrolls, and Speaks for Itself
Google just dropped Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, an AI that doesn’t just answer, it acts. It can now operate apps and websites like a digital assistant on caffeine, outperforming rivals on UI-control benchmarks while keeping latency low. Safety guardrails ensure it won’t delete your life with one click. Meanwhile, Google Research is whispering to the future with Speech-to-Retrieval, which skips text entirely to fetch info straight from your voice. Goodbye typing, hello (talking) Google!
OpenAI’s AgentKit & GPT-5 Pro: Building Agents and Locking Ecosystems
OpenAI’s latest drop, GPT-5 Pro, got smarter and strategic. The powerhouse model, now available via API, flexes advanced reasoning skills tailor-made for building intelligent AI agents.
And the latest entrant, the AgentKit, is an ultimate developer toolkit featuring Agent Builder for drag-and-drop workflows, ChatKit for sleek chat UIs, and enhanced Evals to keep those agents in line.
The catch? OpenAI’s ecosystem is becoming easier to build inside, harder to leave.
Grok Imagine 0.9: xAI Gets Cinematic
Elon Musk’s xAI just dropped Grok Imagine 0.9, now crafting silky-smooth, hyperreal AI videos with spot-on motion and sound. Hollywood, meet your new algorithmic auteur.
ElevenLabs Lets Voice AI Speak Freely
ElevenLabs just open-sourced its voice agent UI toolkit, giving developers plug-and-play vocal cords for their apps. Now, anyone can make their AI talk the talk, literally.
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Anysphere Codes Its Way to a $30B Orbit
Anysphere, maker of the dev-favorite Cursor, is reportedly eyeing a dazzling $30 billion valuation.
Meanwhile, as the investors circle, Cursor just leveled up with Plan Mode, an AI project manager that maps massive codebases like a pro. Developers get strategy, structure, and swagger; Silicon Valley gets another hot ticket.