OpenAI Codex Launches Plugin Marketplace for Agents
OpenAI ships a plugin marketplace for Codex CLI v0.117.0, bundling skills, app integrations, and MCP server configs behind an enterprise governance layer.
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Mistral Ships Voxtral - Open-Weights Voice AI Platform
Mistral releases Voxtral, a pair of open-weights models covering speech recognition and text-to-speech that undercut OpenAI and ElevenLabs on price.
Anthropic Leak Reveals Claude Mythos and Cyber Risks
A CMS misconfiguration exposed nearly 3,000 unpublished Anthropic assets, including draft details of Claude Mythos, a new model tier the company says poses serious cybersecurity risks.
Federal Judge Halts Pentagon's Anthropic Blacklist
A federal judge blocked the Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist on March 26, ruling the government engaged in First Amendment retaliation by punishing the company for refusing to drop AI safety guardrails.
NeurIPS Bans Sanctioned Chinese Labs - CCF Calls Boycott
NeurIPS enforces US sanctions compliance for the first time in its history, barring researchers from Huawei, SenseTime, and other SDN-listed firms, prompting China's Computer Federation to urge a full boycott.
Meta TRIBE v2 Predicts Brain Activity From Any Media
Meta's TRIBE v2 foundation model predicts fMRI brain activity from video, audio, and text, trained on 720 volunteers and achieving 2-3x gains over prior methods.
Shield AI Raises $2B at $12.7B in Defense AI Bet
Shield AI closed a $2B raise at a $12.7B valuation, more than doubling from $5.3B a year ago, to fund its Hivemind autonomous pilot software and acquire Pentagon simulation vendor Aechelon Technology.
GitHub Copilot Will Train on Your Code This April
Starting April 24, GitHub will use Copilot Free and Pro users' interaction data to train AI models by default - with opt-out buried in settings.
Tencent's 7B Voice AI Targets OpenAI's Realtime API
Tencent open-sources Covo-Audio, a 7B end-to-end audio language model with native full-duplex conversation that beats larger closed models on key benchmarks.
Anthropic Adds Auto Mode to Claude Code with Safety Gates
Anthropic's new Auto Mode for Claude Code uses a two-layer classifier to automatically approve or block risky commands, offering a middle path between manual approvals and full autonomy.
ARC-AGI-3 Launches - AI Agents Must Learn, Not Memorize
ARC Prize Foundation launched ARC-AGI-3 today with a fully open-source agent toolkit. The best AI in the preview phase scored 12.58% against a human baseline of 100%.
Apple Can Distill Google Gemini for On-Device Siri
New details reveal Apple has full data center access to Gemini and can create smaller on-device derivative models - far more control than the original deal disclosed.
