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Each day we pick 5 to 8 AI events worth knowing from official blogs, changelogs, GitHub releases and trusted media. Every story shows when the event itself happened, how many independent sources back it, and its fact-check results. Stories we only publish after 48 hours go to the archive, never to Today.
Today's top stories
- 1IndustryEvent time 4 independent sourcesAMD to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion
AMD announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, the spatial intelligence company founded by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock transaction valued at about $8.2 billion. The deal has not closed. It is expected to complete by the end of 2026, subject to regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions; after closing, Fei-Fei Li will become AMD's Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist, reporting to Lisa Su.
- 2Model releaseEvent time 7 independent sourcesContains unconfirmed detailsOpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence at one-fifth of Astra's API price
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol, saying it delivers near-GPT-6-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use and professional work at one-fifth of Astra's standard API input and output token prices. GitHub Copilot, Amazon Bedrock and Codex CLI added it the same day.
- 3Model releaseEvent time 6 independent sourcesContains unconfirmed detailsAnthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5: same list price, officially 30%+ faster
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in the Claude 5.5 family, at the same list price as Sonnet 5: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Anthropic says its output is more than 30% faster than Sonnet 5 and that, in its own testing, the cost per task is up to 30% lower (mainly because it needs fewer tokens to do the same work). The model is available on AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
- 4Product updateEvent time 4 independent sourcesContains unconfirmed detailsOpenAI introduces dots: proactive assistants that keep work moving
OpenAI introduced dots, describing them as proactive assistants that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks while users stay in control. Details such as who can use them and the underlying model come only from press reports, so the site marks them unconfirmed.
- 5Product updateEvent time 2 independent sourcesShopify checkout now supports WebMCP: in-browser AI agents can place orders once the buyer confirms
Shopify has added WebMCP tools to its checkout flow. AI agents in the browser can read and update the current checkout and, once the buyer confirms, submit the order. When buyer input is needed, such as 3D Secure verification, or when a blocking UI extension appears, the tools hand control back to the buyer; merchants need no extra configuration.
- 6Model releaseEvent time 2 independent sourcesNVIDIA releases Kumo Tabular: an open tabular foundation model that needs no training
NVIDIA released Kumo Tabular, an open foundation model for tabular classification and regression that predicts in a single forward pass, with no training, tuning or feature engineering. It comes in three sizes from 28M to 215M parameters under the OpenMDW-1.1 license, which permits commercial use.
- 7Product updateEvent time 2 independent sourcesAmazon Bedrock extends in-region Claude inference to Seoul and Singapore and adds in-country inference in India
AWS announced that Amazon Bedrock now supports in-region inference for Claude Opus 5 and Sonnet 5 in Seoul and for Sonnet 5 in Singapore. The same day, Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5 became available in India through geographic cross-Region inference, with requests routed only between the two Indian Regions.
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- Product updateEvent time 4 independent sourcesContains unconfirmed detailsOpenAI introduces dots: proactive assistants that keep work moving
- Model releaseEvent time 2 independent sourcesNVIDIA releases Kumo Tabular: an open tabular foundation model that needs no training
- Model releaseEvent time 7 independent sourcesContains unconfirmed detailsOpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence at one-fifth of Astra's API price
- Product updateEvent time 2 independent sourcesAmazon Bedrock extends in-region Claude inference to Seoul and Singapore and adds in-country inference in India
- Product updateEvent time 3 independent sourcesNVIDIA launches an open agent safety platform: OpenShell software boundaries plus a BlueField-4 hardware watchdog
- Product updateEvent time 2 independent sourcesShopify checkout now supports WebMCP: in-browser AI agents can place orders once the buyer confirms
- Product updateEvent time 3 independent sourcesContains unconfirmed detailsGoogle says Gemini's Gems will become skills, with a phased migration starting in November
- IndustryEvent time 4 independent sourcesAMD to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion
- Model releaseEvent time 6 independent sourcesContains unconfirmed detailsAnthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5: same list price, officially 30%+ faster
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