Anthropic, OpenAI and others hand four agent projects to the Linux Foundation, including Agent Skills
Skills now works in 70+ tools (ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and more), with 1M skills published and 280M installs.
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Skills are becoming a shared standard, so now is a good time to write your first one
Microsoft’s AI doctor panel gets 83% of hard cases right, vs 36% for GPs working alone
several agents split up questioning, ordering tests and debating; the paper is in Science, and clinical testing starts within two months.
Tip
why a few AIs arguing with each other beat a single AI
Mistral releases Large 4: 1 trillion parameters, 52B active, open weights at the end of October
trained in Mistral’s own European data centers, top five on coding benchmarks.
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Europe now has a top open model; what that means for companies that don’t want to rely on US services
DeepSeek reportedly raises about $15B, led by Tencent and CATL
two days after the US ordered federal agencies to stop using DeepSeek.
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banned on one side, flush with money on the other — where Chinese AI companies stand
Canva launches Craft, its first in-house image model, trained on design templates
good at posters, social graphics and text-heavy layouts, can edit just one region, and works from ChatGPT and Gemini.
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for social media graphics, how a design model differs from a general image model
Factory robot rental company Formic raises $50M and partners with Physical Intelligence
bringing robot foundation models onto real production lines, moving from single-task to general-purpose robots.
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robots on a monthly rental let small factories use them too
⚠️ Compiled by an AI assistant from public AI news roundups; original articles are not individually verified. For reference only.