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PERPLEXITY BIDS $34.5B FOR CHROME

Perplexity made an unsolicited $34.5B cash offer to acquire Chrome, pledging to keep Chromium open source, invest $3B in the project, and retain Google as the default search.

CLAUDE SONNET 4 NOW SUPPORTS 1M‑TOKEN CONTEXT

Anthropic expanded Sonnet 4 to a 1M‑token context window in public beta on the Anthropic API and Amazon Bedrock, with Vertex AI support planned.

HOW ANTHROPIC BUILDS SAFEGUARDS FOR CLAUDE

Anthropic outlined a multi‑layer safeguards program spanning policy design, training influence, red‑teaming and testing, real‑time enforcement, and threat intelligence to reduce misuse.

GPT-5 PROMPTING GUIDE

OpenAI's GPT-5 prompting guide reveals a new verbosity API parameter that controls response length independently of reasoning depth, plus a Responses API that persists reasoning context between tool calls. The guide suggests the "minimal reasoning effort" path for latency-sensitive applications, and shows GPT-5 excels as its own meta-prompter - with users successfully deploying prompt revisions generated by asking the model how to fix unsuccessful prompts

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INTRODUCING NEXUS - THE OPEN-SOURCE AI ROUTER TO AGGREGATE, GOVERN, AND SECURE YOUR AI STACK

Nexus is a powerful AI router designed to optimize how AI agents interact with multiple MCP tools and LLMs. It serves as a central hub that aggregates MCP servers while providing intelligent LLM routing, security, and governance capabilities. Nexus allows apps to have a simplified architecture and increased observability, scalability, and reliability. It aims to make intelligent orchestration more accessible and efficient for developers everywhere.

OMNARA

Omnara transforms AI agents from silent workers into communicative teammates. It provides real-time visibility into what agents are doing. Users can respond to agents' questions and guide them to success from their phones. Omnara allows users to launch agents and monitor them from anywhere, get push notifications when input is needed, and send real-time feedback to guide those agents.

JAN: LOCAL AI ASSISTANT

An open‑source alternative to ChatGPT that runs entirely offline on your desktop (Windows/macOS/Linux), enabling you to download, run, and extend LLMs locally with privacy-first, self‑hosting capabilities.

OPENAI ROLLS OUT GMAIL, CALENDAR, AND CONTACTS INTEGRATION IN CHATGPT

OpenAI is rolling out support for Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts Connectors in ChatGPT Pro. Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu users will get access in the coming weeks. Connectors allow ChatGPT to reference data from third-party services. They make it easier to bring information from tools into conversations.

AI2'S ACTION REASONING MODEL

AI2's MolmoAct is an open‑source Action Reasoning Model built on Molmo that targets spatial reasoning for precise instruction following in 3D environments.

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UPDATES TO CHATGPT

Users can now choose between Auto, Fast, and Thinking modes for GPT-5, rate limits are now 3,000 messages per week with GPT-5 Thinking, 4o is back in the model picker for all paid users by default, and OpenAI is working on an update to GPT-5's personality to make it feel warmer than the current personality but not as annoying as GPT-4o.

LLMS AS PARTS OF SYSTEMS

Making tools available to AI agents gives them more power and leverage.

TEXTQUESTS EVALUATES LLMS IN INTERACTIVE GAMES

Hugging Face introduced TextQuests to assess LLMs as autonomous agents in text‑based, open‑world environments where long‑horizon reasoning and exploration matter.

MUSK SAYS XAI TO TAKE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST APPLE OVER APP STORE RANKINGS

Elon Musk accused Apple of antitrust violations for allegedly making it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store and has threatened immediate legal action as his Grok app ranks fifth while ChatGPT holds the top spot.