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🤖 Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5.5
🦾Plus: 🧠 AMD is Buying Fei-Fei Li's World Labs For $8.2Bn
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🚨 NVIDIA Drops a “Kill Switch” for Rogue AI Agents
💡 AI Tutorial:How to use Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom in Google Gemini
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Anthropic just rolled out Claude Sonnet 5.5, a 30% faster mid-tier model joining Opus in its new 5.5 family, with big gains over the last Sonnet in knowledge work and coding, and even rivaling Opus on certain tests at half the price. 5.5 keeps its predecessor’s pricing, with Anthropic saying jobs cost up to 30% less and top Sonnet 5's best on low/medium effort for around 1/10 the cost.
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An AI pilot can run successfully on a small dataset, a handful of users, and considerable attention from an engineering team. Enterprise deployment is a different proposition. Once an AI system begins serving thousands of employees, customers, or automated workflows, it must interact with databases, applications, documents, identity systems, APIs, and infrastructure that were often designed long before generative and agentic AI became part of the technology roadmap. That is where modernization becomes important.
The new Manus app, Cue, gives each agent its own email, phone number, wallet, and computer. It can take calls, send messages, make approved payments, and keep working after you log off. Put multiple agents into a group chat, give them one goal, and let them split the work across research, shortlisting, outreach, and deliverables. Manus 2.0 is live on web, desktop, and mobile. Cue is free in early access with invite code MEETCUE, with the iOS app still waiting on App Store approval.
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Forge is Cloudflare's open-source pipeline for generating SDKs, CLIs, docs, examples, and future surfaces like MCP servers from API definitions. It runs in CI and creates preview builds when API teams change schemas, so teams can test generated outputs before shipping.
Ex-Google DeepMind-er launched Fo, agents that come with their own inbox, phone number, voice, and credit card, and the builder that lets anyone create one. Fo can even route work to human experts when tasks need real-world judgment or phone calls. Per their internal evals, Fo completed 71% of tasks with a trust rate of 94%, way ahead of Muse, Instinct, OpenClaw, Hermes, and more. It is invite-only alpha, with free unlimited access for the first 1,000 users.
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AI News:
Shopify has decided the robot shopper is a customer, not a threat. Browser-based AI agents can now read, update and submit checkout on merchant sites, Shop Pay included, using three new WebMCP tools rather than screenshots and scraping. Amazon and Adidas are reportedly blocking agents at the door... Shopify wants them through it, with the buyer's authorization.
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Turns out AMD wants the brains as well as the silicon. The chipmaker is acquiring World Labs, the world-model startup, in a deal worth $8.2Bn, and founder Fei-Fei Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist. The ImageNet pioneer says she wants to get closer to the hardware... The two had already partnered on training and inference last year.
Anthropic’s Jack Clark, OpenAI’s Jakub Pachocki, AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, and other leading AI voices co-authored a paper urging preparation for an “intelligence explosion,” where models building better versions of themselves create years of advances in months. Anthropic's own tracking shows AI now completes 26% of the lab's R&D work on its own, with humans just steering from above, up from just 1% in March.
NVIDIA introduced its Open Agent Safety Platform, giving companies controls that operate outside the AI agents they supervise. NVIDIA says Sentry, its watchdog running on a separate BlueField security chip, can quarantine agents that cross their boundaries within milliseconds. OpenShell is open-source software that enforces which files, tools and online services an agent can access while it works.
SpaceX got its mega-rocket to orbit at last, engine trouble and all. Starship launched from South Texas early Monday, lost one of its six Raptor engines after stage separation, and made orbit anyway, deploying all 26 third-generation Starlink satellites. Flight teams then brought the upper stage down after three hours instead of the planned nine. Reusability is reportedly the next box to tick.
AI Tutorial
How to use Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom in Google Gemini
Google Gemini can now work with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. This means you can edit photos, remove objects, fix lighting, change backgrounds, and adjust colours just by telling Gemini what you want. Here is how
Open Google Gemini and go to Connected Apps.
Find Adobe and turn it on.
Sign in with your Adobe account. You can use a free Adobe account to access the connector.
Start a new Gemini chat and type @Adobe, then select Adobe.
Upload the photo or images you want to edit.
Tell Gemini what you want Adobe to do. For example: “Brighten this photo, remove the person in the background, and make the colours warmer.”
You can keep giving instructions in the same conversation until you get the result you want.
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