The plugins are designed to allow Cowork to act like a “domain expert” in areas like sales, legal, finance, marketing, data analysis, customer support, product management, biology research, and more, according to a release. The feature is available now in research preview to all paid subscription tiers.
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The AI hardware company announced its next bet, dubbed “project cyberdeck”: a portable device specifically designed for vibe-coding. It also announced an over-the-air update to its r1 device that makes the product a “plug-and-play computer controller” that’s able to do agentic tasks on a user’s behalf, and also integrates OpenClaw, the open-source agentic tool formerly known as Moltbot and Clawdbot.
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Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, and some of its leading engineers will join DeepMind as part of a licensing agreement, Wired reported. The news follows a growing trend of big-ticket “acqui-hires” and licensing deals in the AI industry.
The products, fueled by voice-based chatbot features, create “emotional attachment by design” and give inappropriate answers up to one-fourth of the time, according to the Common Sense Media assessment.
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The AI industry employee shake-up continues. The three staffers, who had left for ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s own AI startup, are now back at OpenAI. Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications, wrote on X that she was “excited to welcome Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz back” and that the decision “has been in the works for several weeks.”
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Mira Murati, its founder and CEO (as well as ex-CTO of OpenAI), announced that the AI startup has “parted ways with Barret Zoph,” its co-founder and CTO, who is also an ex-OpenAI employee. Murati said that Soumith Chintala will take over as Thinking Machines Lab’s finance chief.
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