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AISpaceXAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite ranks #17 on both AA-Video-T2V v2.0 leaderboards, ahead of Google's Veo 3.1 at about a third of its price. It is the fastest model at its quality level in Artificial Analysis benchmarks, with a median of 60.5 seconds for a 10-second 1080p clip, and it costs $0.14 per second at 1080p, 56% of Grok Imagine Video 1.5's $0.25 per second.
AIAnthropic published a guide on building automations with Claude Managed Agents, which can be deployed to read Slack and GitHub on a schedule, with credentials and memory, and post updates. The setup can be started with a Claude Code command, and Max and Team plans include new API credits to use it.
AIElad Gil posted an enthusiastic reaction to Hone's blog post "Closing the Gap," which discusses improving AI's real-world value. The post is brief and offers no concrete product details, figures, or benchmarks beyond the linked material.
AIReplit says users can keep working in the same conversation to request a pitch deck or launch graphics after building a website. The post notes the brand and direction are already established, so the work can build on them without starting over.
AIReplit says users can extend a survey analysis in the same conversation by requesting an action plan, a presentation, or a research brief. The next step builds on the findings already explored in the chat.
AIDatabricks has released Funke, a Python and PySpark library and deployable pipeline that parses HL7v2 healthcare messages into native Spark types while preserving the full message hierarchy. It succeeds Smolder, the Scala data source Databricks open-sourced in 2021, and ingests through Auto Loader into Unity Catalog bronze and silver tables. Users can query segments, fields, components, and subcomponents directly with DataFrame or Spark SQL expressions.
AIAnthropic has launched OSS Scanner, a free opt-in service that gives open-source projects periodic security scans by its strongest models, including Claude Mythos. The reports are fully model-generated without human review or triage, so they may be incorrect or invalid.
AIThariq, who works at Anthropic, accidentally made public the GitHub repo for ai-newtab, a Chrome extension he uses daily. It replaces the new tab page with an AI-generated homepage built each day from sites he reads.
AIOpenAI's YouTube livestream presents three demos showing how Codex supports production monitoring. The demos cover tracing a checkout failure in Grafana, investigating a Kubernetes rollout causing out-of-memory restarts, and linking a Codex Security finding about a missing resource limit to service availability.
AICoreWeave launched Forge, a platform meant to help teams run, observe, evaluate and improve AI agents continuously through a five-stage loop. The offering includes Agent Lens, Registry, RL Rollouts, model distillation, and the AI Research and Iteration Agent (ARIA), which is now generally available. CoreWeave also introduced a partner network of tested, co-engineered integrations, according to Susanne Seitinger, vice president of product marketing.
AIArena has released its Alignment Index, a ranking that tracks AI models for unauthorized actions, deceptive completions, and false attribution of intent. The full technical report and rankings are available on Arena's blog and leaderboard site.
AIMidjourney is testing a new "thinking mode" for its image generation on its Alpha website, alpha.midjourney.com. The company says the mode improves prompt accuracy, typography, and coherence, and it is asking users to try it and share feedback.
AIEpoch AI reports that OpenAI halved GPT-6.1 Sol's cached-input price compared with GPT-6 Sol. Its measurements also show the model handles long prompts faster. The post raises, but does not confirm, a new architecture for GPT-6.1 Sol.
AIMidjourney is testing a "Thinking Mode" on its Alpha website, where users can click "Rerun (Thinking)" in a job's lightbox to regenerate an image. The company says early tests show gains in prompt accuracy, typography, and coherence, and it is asking users to share feedback in its #ideas-and-features channel. It may later offer the mode broadly or as an option to add more thinking after a job.
AIMidjourney's alpha site now lets users share folders with others as Collaborators or Viewers, with sharing by link also available. A new thinking mode lets users rerun jobs made with 8.2 standard and edit models to fix missed prompt details such as objects, layout, anatomy, and text. Sharing does not change image privacy, so non-stealth images can still appear on Explore and profiles.
AIAnthropic has launched Claude Motion in beta, which lets users ask Claude to turn their ideas into animated explainers. The same beta release also includes Claude Dashboards, which turns data into live dashboards.
AICursor's Eric Zakariasson announced Disk Saver, a tool for Grok bot computers running out of space. It helps free up disk space by proposing cleanups.
AIHiggsfield AI promotes a tool on its platform for users to create their own AI influencer, with a link to the katana page. The post gives no details on features, pricing, or models.
AISafeWorld emerged from stealth this week with $12.2 million in seed funding for its robot safety simulation platform. The software lets teams build test scenarios from past incidents, safety standards, and robot logs, then runs robots through thousands of variations with reactive human motion. SafeWorld said it supports robot arms, humanoids, and mobile robots, with customers in industrial, manufacturing, logistics, and construction.
AIAnthropic is launching OSS Scanner, a service that uses its frontier models to periodically scan opted-in open-source projects for vulnerabilities at no cost. Its reports provide a proof-of-concept, an explanation, and a suggested fix.
AIAnthropic announced a new Critical Infrastructure Defense Program to help secure systems such as power grids and water systems. The program will provide frontier Claude models, on-site engineers, and the company's latest research to operators' security, manufacturing, and technology providers.
AIThariq (@trq212) says the project is built on Claude Managed Agents, with code generated in a cloud sandbox using Sonnet 5.5. He puts each run at about $0.75 and links the GitHub repository for trying it.
AIAnthropic's Thariq points readers to documentation on enabling API credits for Claude subscribers. The post itself gives no further details on eligibility, amounts, or setup steps.
AIAnthropic's Thariq says Claude MAX plans now include monthly Claude API credits of $100 or $200, matching the plan tier. He shares a personal AI homepage he built, regenerated daily from the sites he reads and used as his Chrome new tab page.
AIAdaption AI's discovery agent reviews past AutoScientist training runs to identify critiques at the edge of current capabilities and specific to each domain. The team converts that critique set into a checklist that automatically filters training data.
AISara Hooker announced a new blog post on adaptive checklists from Adaption AI, which she says capture current model capabilities and domain-specific requirements better than traditional checklists. She claims these adaptive checklists achieve this without requiring human supervision.
AIHiggsfield introduced Katana, its most powerful AI video editing tool, powered by Claude Motion and available now inside Claude via Higgsfield MCP. Users can upload a reference to create editable motion graphics, product launch videos, or aura-farming edits.
AIAnthropic has made Claude Dashboards available on all paid plans and Claude Motion on Team and Enterprise plans. Claude can query a data platform or CRM tool to build interactive dashboards or short animations, with everything generated as code.
AIInception's Mercury Decide, the fastest-growing decision model on OpenRouter last week, now has a paid zero data retention (ZDR) endpoint alongside the free one. It is priced at $0.02/M input tokens, half the $0.04 list price, with output and cached input free and a 66K context window.
AIZoom Zoom Quoted post context: Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion are in beta today. Ask Claude to turn your data into live dashboards and your ideas into animated explainers.
AICursor's new /visualize command builds charts and diagrams directly in the chat, letting users ask follow-up questions in the same conversation to get new charts. The feature analyzes data and shows answers inline, and it is available now in the Agents Window.
AIAnthropic's Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion are now in beta, letting users ask Claude to turn data into live dashboards and ideas into animated explainers. Felix Rieseberg says the tools make creating cool short videos with Opus 5.5 much easier.
AIRunway's post links to a company news announcement about "Runway, Claude, Motion," but the post text itself gives no details beyond that title. No specific features, figures, or availability are stated in the source.
AIRunway's post promotes using Claude Motion to animate charts, create customer walkthroughs, and make short explainers. The animated work can then be brought into Runway to generate videos and images. Claude Motion is described as being in beta, per the quoted Claude post.
AIAnthropic has cut Sonnet 5.5 cache read pricing in half to $0.10 per million tokens, with input at $2 and output at $10 per million tokens. The company says this makes Sonnet 5.5 roughly 20% cheaper on most agentic work. The change applies to API usage only and does not alter Claude Code usage limits.
AIOpenRouter now offers xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite for text-to-video and image-to-video generation. The quoted post from Grok Imagine lists pricing of $0.02 per second at 480p, $0.03 per second at 720p, and $0.14 per second at 1080p.
AIClaude Code v2.1.295 adds onFailure: "block" for command and HTTP hooks, so a hook that cannot start, times out, or exits unexpectedly blocks the action. The release also adds an optional models list for Claude apps gateway upstreams, plus upstream_request_id in the inference audit event, and fixes a range of MCP, plugin, and terminal issues.
AIOpenAI has improved steering so the model reacts much faster to user adjustments, letting people course-correct in real time. The company is also releasing GPT-6.1 Sol ultrafast, which it says works very well alongside the steering improvement.
AIOpenRouter now offers Sol Ultrafast, a version of GPT-6.1 Sol, available through its platform. According to OpenAI Devs, the Ultrafast mode delivers near-Astra intelligence at up to 8x the speed of Sol Standard and is rolling out in the API, Codex, and ChatGPT Work.
AIAnthropic launched two beta features for Claude: Dashboards, which turns connected data sources like BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake, or Salesforce into auto-updating live dashboards from text prompts, and Motion, which creates animated explainer videos from text, diagrams, and images. Dashboards is available to paid users and Motion to Team and Enterprise plans, while Docs, Slides, and Design leave beta and work across all plans, including free accounts.