Vellum launched Ambient Assistants, a floating Mac assistant that sees the screen in real time and can draw on it to point out what matters.
ChatGPT Pro Max is confirmed at $500, making it one of the priciest AI subscriptions on the market.
Anthropic will resume charging for rejected requests tied to biology, distillation attacks, and LLM development to guard against distillation attacks.
Odyssey released a playable preview of Agora-2, a multiplayer world model supporting up to 20 concurrent players and agents, 5x more than Agora-1.
Nano Banana 2.5 Flash traces have reportedly been spotted on Google Flow.
Meta unveiled Muse Charm, an AI pin letting users talk to their Muse agents from anywhere, shipping starts in December.
Hermes Agent’s web search, built on Perplexity’s Fast Search, is now free across all Nous Portal tiers.
Perplexity introduced Fast Search in its Search API, powered by a new Rust-based engine called Photon, returning 95% of results in 230ms or less.
Anthropic is in talks for up to 1 gigawatt of data center capacity, a deal that could require at least $40 billion in investment.
Anthropic commits $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai cloud services and secures an option for up to a 5% stake, sending AKAM up 17%+ after hours.
Higgsfield crossed $1B in annualized revenue, up 20x since September 2025, with 300% net revenue retention.
FactoryAI’s Legacy-Bench joined Fireworks AI’s Specialized Intelligence Index to benchmark AI models on legacy code debugging and migration.
Higgsfield is offering 100% cashback on its API platform models, backed by a $20M pool with up to $100,000 per business, ending September 30.
