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Fireworks ships Ember-1, an API model built to spend fewer reasoning tokens News
Fireworks launched Ember-1 as a public inference API and says it achieves comparable quality with 35–50% shorter reasoning traces, a vendor-reported claim aimed at reducing the compounding cost of agent work.
OpenAI turns the Codex harness into a product with an Agents API News
OpenAI put an Agents API into public beta on 10 September 2026 that lets developers build on the same managed Codex harness its own products use, with OpenAI handling session orchestration, context compaction and recovery - making the scaffolding around the model, rather than the model, the thing being sold.
Cursor built its own GitHub News
Cursor shipped Origin, a git forge with repository hosting, pull requests and GitHub mirroring built directly into the company's AI coding platform, in early beta for paying customers only.
Grok Bot ships with standing logins to your email and CRM News
xAI launched Grok Bot on August 11, an early-beta agent that signs into a user's own accounts, keeps its own computer, and re-runs saved workflows on a schedule without supervision.
Google shipped sign-language-to-text on Pixel, trained on 100,000 hours of signing News
Google DeepMind released SL2T, a model that translates sign language directly to text and now powers signing input in Gboard and Live Transcribe, trained on more than 100,000 hours of data across over 50 sign languages.
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 generates a 30-second single take, and still cannot promise a face across a cut News
ByteDance Seed announced Seedance 2.5 on 31 July, a joint audio-video model producing single clips of up to 30 seconds extendable twice, roughly doubling its predecessor's maximum take length while documenting no persistent character identity across separate shots.
OpenAI Launches Presence, an Enterprise Product for Voice and Chat Agents News
OpenAI released Presence, a high-touch enterprise product for deploying voice and chat agents, and said its own phone-support channel now resolves 75% of issues without a human.
OpenAI is selling a $230 keyboard with a dial for how hard the AI thinks News
OpenAI has launched Codex Micro, a $230 mechanical control deck built with accessory maker Work Louder that puts agent status on RGB keys and reasoning effort on a physical rotary dial.
Meta unveils Muse Image and Muse Video, its first in-house media generators News
Meta Superintelligence Labs previewed Muse Image and Muse Video, its first homegrown media-generation models, and built 'agentic tool use' directly into the image model instead of treating generation as passive prompting.