getting acquired by @nvidia = hugging face can now hire people we couldn't as a small startup and give them a decade to make open-source AI win! if you're one of them, my dms are open

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 29 ANTHROPIC 🔥: - Claude Sonnet 5.5 is live everywhere, including the Platform and Claude Code. Second model in the 5.5 family; Haiku 5.5 is still weeks out. - Same list price as Sonnet 5: $2/$10 per 1M tokens, cache reads $0.20. Official line: 30%+ faster and up to 30% cheaper per task. - First Sonnet with Opus-class cyber safeguards. Cursor already has the slug. OPENAI 🔥: - DevDay keynote is today. The teaser promised 20+ launches; the agenda points to Codex plugins, a 1,000-hour internal agent run, and multiplayer Codex. - Pro $200 reopens to new subscribers tomorrow. Usage math nets to about half the old plan’s API dollars. No 5h cap coming back. Extra subscription features tomorrow will not draw usage. - WSJ: GPT-6.1 Astra will not ship. October target pulled over safety and alignment. - Build strings name “Dots”: text, call, Slack, email, buy with approval, plus a custom-shaped character. “Spaces” also showed up separately. XAI 🔥: - Team Bots are in public beta for Teams and Enterprise. Shared teammates with skills, plugins, and credentials in Slack or Grok Bot. NVIDIA 🔥: - Open Agent Safety Platform is out with 100+ partners. OpenShell plus Sentry; BlueField-4 and DOCA sit outside the agent’s reach. ELEVENLABS 🔥: - v4 and v4 Turbo shipped. Turbo median latency ~100 ms. 90+ languages. - Two-week API promo: $22 / $11 per 1M characters. Instant clones from 10 seconds of audio. KLING 🔥: - 4.0 Flash is live for Ultra Yearly. Full 4.0 is October: 4K HDR, 15 references, 10 keyframes, native 30-second clips. MANUS 🔥: - 2.0 adds persistent cloud workspaces and Cue, an agent with email, phone, wallet, and a Cloud Computer. * Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing. ** This daily brief also arrives in the daily email format; subscribe on the blog.

The Manus Flex Inference Partner Program expands the number of inference providers that users can connect through Flex. We are excited to announce @OpenRouter , @FireworksAI_HQ , and @modal as our initial inference partners for Manus Flex, providing a wide range of model selections alongside large language model providers.

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only in SF: finding company pitch decks while checking the list of hackers 300+ RSVPs already: https://partiful.com/e/EBFwxX8lmHAe3zeoSx5r teams from: - film & animation - e sports - consumer products are joining the Tripothon SF Demo Day just to showcase what they built with @tripoai.

Chief Design Officer @jgebbia officially unveils https://America.gov, the new online home for the United States of America

Baseten joined the @OpenAI B2B marketplace today as one of the first open-model inference providers. The best AI companies are already running a mix of closed and open models at huge scale. We're excited to give OpenAI enterprise customers the ability to use open models powered by Baseten natively within Codex and through the Responses API.

A pretty big change is that Pi now has MCP at the core. How is this even possible? What made us change our way? https://earendil.com/posts/you-said-no-mcp/

I was on @CNBC Squawk Box with one of our customers, @JackGretz, the CEO of @SeatGeek to talk about how they used Serval to eliminate the ticket backlog and redeploy their engineers as embedded business partners. ⚡ 50% of IT requests automated in first 60 days ⚡ 132 automations built in 8 weeks ⚡ Zero layoffs. Hiring this year already ahead of all of last year ⚡ IT time redeployed to solve harder problems When you automate the low-hanging tasks, the support requests and the password resets, you can take the most technical people in your organization and deploy them into work that's more productive than what they were doing before. Full clip below. 👇 @getserval

I have some big news to share. Workera is being acquired by Pearson! Over six years ago, I was teaching at Stanford and thinking about a simple question: what if we could understand everyone's skills as precisely as the best teachers understand their students? I believed it could lead to a more meritocratic world. People could be recognized for what they can actually do, not just their credentials or network. They could understand their strengths and gaps, and rapidly develop the skills they need next. Organizations could discover talent they might otherwise overlook and manage their workforce with trusted skills data. What felt like a dream at the time is now a reality. Workera brought together experts in AI, psychometrics, and enterprise execution to build AI systems that reinvent how skills are measured. Our team pioneered AI-native skills intelligence, agent-led multimodal assessments, and even ambient skill measurement. We've established skills benchmarks across organizations, industries, and roles. And this mission feels more important today than ever! AI is changing work as we speak. Some roles are disappearing, new ones are emerging, and we need to help billions of people develop new skills and navigate what comes next. When I first spoke with @omarabbosh, it became clear that our companies shared the same mission. Pearson has helped generations of people learn and prove what they know. If you're reading this, there's a good chance you've taken a Pearson assessment, learned from their educational materials, earned a professional credential through them, read their psychometrics research, or benefited from their enterprise products in many other ways. Bringing together Workera's technology and AI talent with Pearson’s global scale and deep expertise in learning and assessment means we can pursue our mission at a scale we could only imagine on our own. To our customers and partners, thank you for believing in us. Expect even more innovations coming out of Workera and Pearson. To the Workera team, I’m incredibly proud of what you've built, and your continued dedication to our beautiful mission. To our board and our chairman @AndrewYNg, thank you for your belief, support, and mentorship. To everyone, we have big plans for this next chapter, so please stay tuned. We're just getting started! 😊