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Anthropic announced that Claude Cowork is now available on mobile and web for all paid plans, currently supporting Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users.

According to reports from Xiaomi's earnings call, Xiaomi Group CFO Lin Shiwei stated that MiMo's first personal desktop application will be launched soon, which can be used to handle office and life tasks in one stop. The next generation of MiMo models is also being trained.

Ornith has released the Ornith-1.5 coding model series, which includes three sizes: 397B, 35B-A3B, and 9B, and is designed for proxy-based software engineering and long-running coding tasks.

Doubao's new task adds virtual desktop capability, allowing AI to perform related operations in a virtual Windows desktop environment.

Alibaba's Qwen team is offering 25 job categories to university students worldwide, covering areas such as pre-training, infrastructure, reinforcement learning, multimodal learning, agent, coding, AI security, and AI for Science.

WeChat for Work 5.0.10 opens up CLI and MCP access, allowing WorkBuddy, Codex and enterprise-built agents to call office modules such as documents, spreadsheets, emails and meetings, and provides authorization, approval and audit control.

OpenAI announced that ChatGPT Ads will expand to 31 European countries next week, initially through the Ads Solutions team and partners; the ads will only be available to Free and Go users.

According to The Information, Anthropic is considering allocating additional voting shares to CEO Dario Amodei and other co-founders during its IPO preparations, though this has not yet been officially confirmed.

Artificial Analysis released Search Index, which compares the quality, cost, and latency of 11 search API products from 7 providers under conditions of fixed answer models and agent harnesses.

Inco AI has released DFlash 2. According to their tests, with an increase of about 1% in single-cycle latency, the acceptable output per validation cycle is improved by more than 20%, and the improvement on different benchmarks is about 16% to 25%.

Anthropic has released the Claude Science Guide, which introduces common research workflows, new life science skills, and database connectivity methods; this is a user guide for a product in the testing phase and is not a new product release.

Anthropic describes its internal Claude Tag on-call system: This agent monitors CI/CD events, investigates faults, and generates preliminary situation reports. Recently reported incidents can usually receive the first round of analysis within 15 minutes.

Anthropic announced two life science studies demonstrating Claude's capabilities in protein conjugate design and NMR and LC-MS data analysis; some experiments used limited research models and are not equivalent to the existing functions available to ordinary users.

Etched announced the completion of a $700 million funding round led by Jane Street, valuing the company at $21 billion. Jane Street participated in the lead round after testing Etched's hardware, and Etched has already delivered its first rack to the company.

Users identified as under 18 years of age or who declare themselves to be between 13 and 17 years of age will be automatically entered into ChatGPT for Teens, where age-adaptive protection, learning mode, homework reminders, and parental controls will be enabled by default.

Google announced that Gemini in Chrome is now available to Android users in the United States, enabling users to summarize web pages, answer page questions, and connect to services such as Calendar and Keep; Auto Browse remains limited to US AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

Remotion has updated its Agent Skills system, designing Best Practices as a router for loading relevant sub-skills on demand. It also adds interactive editing capabilities and avoids imposing a fixed design style on the generated results.

Vercel Labs has open-sourced experimental programming Agent fx, whose Agent harness and CLI are written in Zig, emphasizing small size, native operation, embeddability, and model independence.

MiniMax has released an official mmx CLI, which allows users to access text, images, videos, voice, music, visual understanding, and online search capabilities from the terminal or agents such as Claude Code and OpenClaw.

OpenAI stated that smaller-scale training and evaluation have continued, but the planned largest-scale frontier reinforcement learning training remains paused, not a complete halt to model training.

AI video unicorn Higgsfield has raised $400 million in funding, valuing the company at $5.4 billion (approximately 36.6 billion yuan) post-money. Investors include DST Global, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, and Intel. The company's annualized revenue has reached $700 million, growing approximately 34 times in one year, and its valuation has increased by 315% in eight months. The platform boasts over 30 million users across 238 countries and regions.

Kunlun Tech has launched Mureka V9.5, an AI music generation model based on the MusiCoT framework. V9.5 represents a significant leap forward in arrangement spacing, vocal realism, and the accuracy of intent, achieving a vocal quality rate of 61.0% and a control quality rate of 97.0%. The model has also made breakthroughs in the Chinese folk music genre, with more accurate pronunciation, more restrained harmonies, and more expressive arrangements. Based on over 25,000 user feedback iterations, Mureka V9.5 aims to move beyond simply generating music to creating tracks worthy of repeated listening.

HiDream-O1-World, a native multimodal interactive world model developed by Zhixiang Future, supports multimodal input including text, images, and interactive elements, and features three main functions: roaming, editing, and interaction. The model is powered by a self-developed UiT architecture, achieving key breakthroughs in spatiotemporal and physical consistency. It topped the WBench interactive world model ranking on its first submission. Applications span AI interactive games, embodied intelligent simulation, and 3D scene production.

Cursor launches Origin, an AI-native code hosting platform, and is gradually rolling out its beta version to all paid users starting today. The platform offers core features such as code repositories, PR reviews, code browsing, and two-way synchronization with GitHub, supporting coexistence with GitHub repositories. The platform has integrated with third-party applications such as Vercel, Depot, and Buildkite, and each repository has a built-in AI agent that can directly modify code and update PRs.