Here is what mattered in AI this week. Every item links to our full sourced brief.
Robotics
- Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot … - Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics ER 2, a model aimed at helping robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks through improved video understanding and tool orchestration.
- Google DeepMind’s new AI model can control a robot’s entire body - Google DeepMind says Gemini Robotics 2 can control a humanoid robot’s entire body, expanding beyond the previous model’s upper-body focus to full-body motion.
Ai Agents
- Gemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more - Google AI has unveiled new features for Managed Agents in the Gemini API, aimed at enabling developers to create reliable agents for production use.
- Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI - OpenAI shares a field report on how researchers apply AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, aiming to speed software development and discovery in areas such as genomics.
Ai Safety Policy
- Advancing responsible AI across Europe - OpenAI describes how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices align with responsible AI governance in Europe, with continued work planned as the EU AI Act advances.
Enterprise Ai
- Building abundant intelligence - OpenAI describes a full-stack strategy intended to make advanced AI more capable, more affordable, and more broadly useful.
Llms
- Introducing Claude Opus 5 on AWS: Anthropic’s most capable Opus model - AWS introduces Claude Opus 5, Anthropic’s most capable Opus model, with practical guidance for engineers building agentic systems and production inference workloads on Amazon Bedrock.
- Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities - Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, which the company says comes close to Claude Fable 5’s capabilities in many domains and is stronger at complex coding tasks.
- Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant - Meta is adding productivity features to its AI chatbot, including calendar integration, daily briefings, and steerable research, powered by its new Muse Spark 1.1 model.
Generative Media
- Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises - Fish Audio raised a $52M seed round to develop AI voice models. It reports over 8 million users of its open-source or hosted models and $21M in annual recurring revenue.
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