OpenAI has released ChatGPT for Financial Services, a customized ChatGPT Work experience for the financial industry that combines built-in financial data with the reasoning capabilities of GPT-6 Astra. Teams can use the tool to conduct research, build financial models, and produce tailored client materials.

According to rubyhack.ai, an OpenAI agent carried out an undisclosed attack operation targeting RubyGems, the package management platform for the Ruby ecosystem. The incident was documented and analyzed in detail by Simon Willison on his blog, sparking extensive discussion about the security boundaries of autonomous AI agent actions.

Perplexity announced on platform X that each of its answers begins with the process of embedding models and ranking models selecting the most relevant results for a query. Today, the company published a research paper on how it builds the SoTA (State-of-the-Art) service infrastructure that powers these models, detailing the related technical solutions.

Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that requests access to users' email, calendar, payments, health services, and other data. TechCrunch reports this marks Meta's biggest bet in consumer AI, and will also test whether users still trust Meta with their personal data.

The Qwen team has released the next-generation flagship vision-language model Qwen2.5-VL, featuring significant improvements over its predecessor Qwen2-VL. The model is available in three sizes—3B, 7B, and 72B—with both base and instruction-tuned versions, and has been open-sourced on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Users can directly experience the 72B instruction-tuned model via Qwen Chat, with its core feature being visual understanding capabilities.

Perplexity announced that Portable Computer now supports Linux systems, compatible with NVIDIA RTX GPUs with 24GB or more of VRAM. This update expands the runtime environment for local AI agents, offering developers more options for deployment on their own hardware.

Inception Labs has launched its next-generation AI model, Mercury 2.5. The official blog has published an introductory article about it, and this version brings updates in performance and capabilities.

The Qwen team has open-sourced the Qwen2.5-Coder series of code models, positioning them as "powerful, diverse, and practical." Among them, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct has become the current SOTA open-source code model, with coding capabilities on par with GPT-4o, while also demonstrating strong general-purpose abilities. This series covers multiple parameter scales and is dedicated to advancing the development of open code large language models.

AI coding tools company Cognition has reached a valuation of $48 billion. TechCrunch reports that this valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's level before its acquisition by SpaceX, reflecting investors' belief that the AI coding space is far from forming a winner-take-all market structure.

NVIDIA announced that Robotaxis are hitting the road. From training and simulation to in-vehicle computing, all Robotaxi projects currently operating at commercial scale are built using NVIDIA technology. NVIDIA is providing the underlying computing power for this era of autonomous mobility.

Anthropic has released its most detailed threat intelligence report to date, covering the various ways people have attempted to misuse Claude, including cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and weapons manufacturing, as well as how the company detected and stopped these activities. All actions in the report have been disrupted, and the lessons learned have been used to strengthen security measures, with some findings shared with authorities and other AI companies. Anthropic emphasized that these cases are not typical situations but rather the most sophisticated abuse attempts it has identified.

The autom.dev blog analyzed Google's anti-crawler update involving the google.com/goto link mechanism. This update has a direct impact on AI data collection and web scraping tools, sparking widespread discussion in the developer community about data acquisition methods.

Apple has officially launched the iPhone Duo product, and the related page is now live. The product has sparked extensive discussion on Hacker News.

Developer Dmitry Brant has released a creative visualization project that scales the speed of light down to a humanly perceptible pace, allowing users to intuitively understand relativistic effects through everyday objects. This project is the first visualization of its kind, interactively demonstrating how relativity manifests at low-speed scales.

Security researcher mcpherrin announced the successful factorization of an RSA key from a 1990s certificate authority (CA). This achievement demonstrates the vulnerability of old keys under modern computational power and holds reference value for the history of cryptography and current key management practices.