Anthropic documents AI-assisted cyberattacks, scams and surveillance in operations spanning December through August. Its case studies show smaller actors taking on more work, with humans still making key targeting decisions.

North Small Translate has 218B total parameters and 25B active. Cohere reports stronger average translation scores than DeepL and Google in its own evaluation. Downloadable weights carry a noncommercial license; commercial use requires separate licensing.

The $5B valuation backs an inference-chip design built around commodity memory, aiming to ease the cost and supply constraints of HBM. The funding will help bring its next generation of silicon to market.

Eight operators plan land, power and buildings for Nvidia-based AI infrastructure, expanding Australia’s role in the compute buildout. The target covers future data-center capacity.

Apple says A20 Pro doubles its predecessor’s AI processing power. Its two 16-core Neural Engines expand the hardware available for models running directly on the phone.

Build on the infrastructure behind Codex: the Agents API manages sessions, tool coordination and recovery. The public beta gives developers a new way to assemble agents, with US data residency and no Zero Data Retention support.

Projects gives continuing work a coordinator that directs other agents and keeps the context. Now rolling out in beta, it lets developers assign and steer projects while agents divide up the coding.

GPT-Live-1 brings full-duplex conversation to developers at $0.05 per minute for the voice layer. Backend reasoning and tool costs are additional. The useful change: interruptions can become part of a conversation rather than a broken handoff.

Google’s desktop app opens over your work for writing, summaries and creative tasks. It is available globally; some agent and media features require a Google AI subscription.

Maven Robotics emerged from stealth with $100 million to expand industrial robots that handle pallets and totes. The company says fleets already work multiple shifts for a large consumer-goods customer; broader deployment remains the test.

Microsoft describes an August campaign requesting nearly $50,000 payments, with signs of AI-assisted writing. It found no evidence the impersonated vendors were compromised. The practical lesson: verify payment requests outside the convincing-looking email thread.

The extension brings its 2026 primary funding to $650M. Co-packaged optics targets communication between chips—a reminder that bigger AI systems need faster connections as well as more processors.

The new agreement would let fans remix and reinterpret music from participating artists. Universal and ElevenLabs are developing the platform around licensed catalogs and artist participation—a new route for fans to play with the music they love.