Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages. Beside the enzyme’s gene sits a long array of repeating DNA—a structure that looks somewhat similar to CRISPR.
We don’t yet understand what this system does, but only a handful of known systems share its features, and all of them are able to cut, copy, and paste DNA. Historically, the discovery of such programmable systems has helped revolutionize medicine. CRISPR, for instance, is now the foundation of genetic medicines. But it will take much more work to learn what this system does, and whether it can be put to similar use.
Read more: https://t.co/RuEosScSMb
⚡ Meet Qwen-Audio-3.1! ASR, TTS & Realtime are fully upgraded, joined by two new models: TTS-Next for audio creation and ASR-Next for audio understanding.
Five models, one complete audio stack: understanding, generation, interaction & creation.
Plus big price cuts across the lineup: TTS ~70% off, Realtime ~85% off, and ASR up to 95% off.
Highlights: 🥳
- ASR: stronger multilingual & dialect recognition, plus native polishing that auto-removes fillers & repetitions for cleaner, more logical transcripts.
- ASR-Next: supports multi-speaker ASR with speaker labels, timestamps & aligned transcripts, and understands emotions, ambient & machine sounds for sound captioning, event localization, audio QA & reasoning.
- TTS: multilingual & dialect synthesis with natural cross-lingual voice transfer; control emotion, speed & style via simple instructions.
- TTS-Next: unified LM + diffusion framework generating voice, sound effects & background audio in one pass for audiobooks, podcasts, games & ads.
- Realtime: speak & listen at once with anytime interruption, just like a real call; it even slows down and responds empathetically when it senses a low mood.
Unlock the full potential of Qwen-Audio-3.1! 👇
- Blog: https://t.co/e0M8wvj8Kg
- Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR:
https://t.co/88lPQTPxyz
- Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime:
https://t.co/Y63sdtK2AC
- More APIs: coming soon @qwen_cloud
Introducing Rollouts.
Rollouts write a monitoring plan, then watch changes as they deploy.
Deployments are verified, so regressions are caught before users see them. https://t.co/01Pgz5B6V1
We've reduced token costs in Cursor by 7% with no drop in agent quality.
Savings came from tighter prompts, selective tool loading, better caching, and compressed file reads. https://t.co/EMNxELnfwO
Introducing Qwen Intelligence, bringing personal intelligence within everyone's reach. 📱✨
It launches with three SOTA agents: 🥳
- Mobile Planner Agent: plans, decomposes & orchestrates complex tasks. #1 on MobilePA-Bench, MobilePA-Bench Business & Memory.
- Mobile-Use Agent: gets things done, API-first with GUI fallback. MobileWorld 82.1, MobileWorld-Real 92.2, AndroidDaily 97.2, 90% end-to-end success rate.
- Mobile Creative Agent: turns one sentence into ready-to-use creations. Image generated in 3s, about 2x faster than leading peers.
We're also opening up our benchmark suite: MobilePA-Bench, MobileWorld, MobileWorld-Real, and MobileWorld-Safety, covering planning, cross-app execution, real-device performance and safety.
🔗 Learn more about the agents:
- Qwen Intelligence official website: https://t.co/ZJJYJtmJIL
- Mobile Planner Agent: https://t.co/M0Wxpoa00x
- Mobile-Use Agent: https://t.co/vvQtbUAagJ
- Mobile Creative Agent: https://t.co/gWWOmrSIqV
🔗 Explore our open benchmark suite:
- MobilePA-Bench: https://t.co/9nXxzG0Ygp
- MobileWorld (GitHub): https://t.co/POvERSuCSJ
- Leaderboard: https://t.co/YYOw8bmJ6H
We heard you loud and clear. ChatGPT Voice can now:
- Use plugins like your email, calendar, and Slack.
- Be powered by GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna.
- Be used in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile, so you can create docs, decks, sites, and spreadsheets or tackle complex tasks in the browser, just by talking.
Rolling out globally today in the latest version of the app.
This is the first result from our new molecular biology lab, where a team of Anthropic biologists is using Claude to explore and accelerate fundamental biology research. There, Claude works through data and literature to generate hypotheses and candidate biological systems to study. After our scientists review Claude’s hypotheses, they test the most promising ideas, with all lab work done by our scientists.
We’d like to extend this approach to a broad range of problems—in genomics and in other fields. If you have a proposal for a research question, we’d like to hear from you.
GitHub 🤝 @Muse
A new way to connect your GitHub account to review PRs, catch up on issues and notifications, and leave comments without switching tabs. https://t.co/iSg1FRs4Rt
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, global health organizations including @CEPIvaccines, @WHOAFRO, and @inrb_kinshasa are using Claude to accelerate their response to an outbreak of an unusual Ebola variant.
Read the full piece here: https://t.co/lQKx17Mxc3
The new Gemini 3.8 TTS models are super-cheap and can generate conversations between multiple voices (from 2,000+, or you can clone your own) - I built a little UI for it, then had Claude knock up a script where two pelicans debate moving to Pacifica Pier https://t.co/7PFM1ASAOl
We’re demonstrating how frontier models have continued to improve in realistic mental health conversations with MentalHealthBench.
This new open benchmark was built with input from more than 80 mental health clinicians.
We’re releasing it openly so other researchers can examine the methods, run their own evaluations, and build on the work.
https://t.co/VTm5ZgxJbl
Devin loves building apps on its own PC. Now, it works even better on yours.
Introducing two updates to Devin for Microsoft users: native support for Teams, and a first-party Microsoft 365 integration to connect to your mail, calendar files, chats, and more. https://t.co/lC1Dii9FNK
From figuring out the wiring to debugging “show that on the wall,” @sidrampally shares how he used Codex to turn an LED display into a voice-controlled assistant.
Powered by GPT-Live-1 and a Raspberry Pi, it shows weather, subway arrivals, and more: https://t.co/d6wv1qNHzc
We’re launching Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS ⚡️
Our most expressive audio models yet let you create custom voices across 100+ languages or pick from 2,000+ ready-to-use ones. You can direct back-and-forth conversations, guide the delivery line-by-line, and add natural cues like <laughs> or an active listening interjection like |mhm| all while generating hours of consistent, glitch-free audio.
Sounds pretty cool, right? So… how should you use them?
— Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS: Need to design bespoke vocal personas from scratch and with line-by-line level control? This is the model! Built for high-fidelity creative production like gaming, immersive audiobooks, and podcasts.
— Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS: Want the AI to automatically adjust its tone and pacing on the fly for near real-time voice agents? This is your engine! Built for cost-efficient scale, high-volume dubbing, and bulk audio creation.
Visualize Data Structures in VS Code 🤯
If you work with data structures, check out the Debug Visualizer extension for VS Code.
It lets you visualize your data while debugging so you can actually watch algorithms and data structures change as your code runs. In this example, see a linked list grow node by node and watch QuickSort move values into sorted order.
A great tool for learning data structures, understanding algorithms, and debugging complex code.
#VSCode #Programming #Coding #DataStructures #Developer
can confirm. ran @latentspacepod AINews side by side with 6 Sol and the difference was night and day: https://t.co/oloSDxf0q7
5.5 Opus is the new default model for AINews going forward. so much more concise and tasteful reporting, with much less slopese than even 5 Opus. https://t.co/P6AXDlBKNP
Learn how responsive design works in Framer
00:26 Design one adaptable system
00:58 Make layouts flex, wrap, and stack
01:36 Preserve hierarchy across screen sizes
01:51 Generate and refine responsive layouts with the Agent
02:22 Test responsive behavior https://t.co/5xuAANTWyo
Along with Rollouts, we've made a major update to Security Reviewer.
Security Reviewer now finishes 21% faster, in 3.8 minutes on average, down from 4.8.
Rollouts and Security Reviewer are available today on Teams and Enterprise plans.
We’re including Rollouts usage credits for the next 10 days, so you can try it on real changes.
Learn more: https://t.co/L2wsajXeT9
The team also built a measurement loop that ran unattended against a huge pull request, using production instrumentation to detect blank gaps, jank, leaked observers, and scroll corrections.
A pull request with 2,200 files, 1M+ changed lines, and 400+ inline comments.
Impossible to review? Not if you have the GitHub Copilot app. ✨
The rebuilt pull request view keeps even this extreme diff fast and smooth. 🧵
Code is the easy part: virtualize the rows, keep the DOM small, and use known line heights.
Comments are harder. Their height changes with markdown, replies, expandable sections, images, and async content.
The solution was two independent geometries:
• Deterministic code height, known up front
• Dynamic comment blocks, measured lazily and corrected near the viewport
That keeps comment reflows from rebuilding the code layout.
Most mental health benchmarks focus on emergency situations.
MentalHealthBench is designed to cover the full spectrum of mental health conversations that people bring to AI - from everyday support to more acute crisis scenarios. https://t.co/bxnTv1ril5
⌨️ Keep typing without duplicate closing brackets.
When you type an opening bracket, VS Code uses an existing matching closing bracket when available. Otherwise, it inserts one. https://t.co/l9eY9gI0y0
🚀 The latest @code release makes large agent session lists faster and easier to manage and lets you run agent sessions in Dev Containers, both locally and on remote hosts.
🧵 Here’s what’s new:
https://t.co/YJQXbZY7EU
And Devin now works natively with Microsoft 365: grant access to Outlook, Calendar, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Directory, to give Devin all the context it needs to keep working.
Permissions are scoped per user and per app, giving your team precise control and flexibility.
In Microsoft Teams, you can now direct message Devin, start a group chat, or spin up Automations from Teams channels, all without leaving the chat.
Devin can also @-mention coworkers for questions, send file attachments, or mute itself when its done. https://t.co/8rkjz9VesZ
GPT-Live-1 handles the conversation while the Raspberry Pi sends research and tool tasks to GPT-5.6 Luna via the Responses API.
The Pi’s local renderer turns scenes into 128 × 64 pixels.
Sid can keep talking while research and rendering happen in the background. https://t.co/mCJbi5AfxA
Side-eyeing anyone who doesn't want to learn how to direct the eye in post. 👀
@FilmRiot reveals three simple ways to guide your audience's attention within your screen; full tutorial here: https://t.co/i8bEbB2n1o https://t.co/dDzvv15Mdo
➡️ Coming soon: Let's Learn GitHub Copilot SDK
Starting September 24, we'll host beginner-friendly livestreams on how to build agentic applications with the GitHub Copilot SDK, without implementing the agent loop yourself. Includes sessions specifically for .NET and Java development.
Sign up for English, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, or Korean.
https://t.co/dl62TnerXt
✨️ This lighting rule will INSTANTLY improve your 3D renders!
If your 3D renders look flat, you need to know the 70/30 lighting rule. Light your subject 70% in light, 30% in shadow and watch your renders come alive!
Try it out and let us know in the comments if this helped! 👇
Big thanks again to @eyedesyn for this week's Quick Tip 💪
Want to learn more? Check out our C4D and Blender courses! ➡️ https://t.co/FfqgdfgQ7W
Rolling out starting today:
— Developers: Both models in @GoogleAIStudio and the Gemini API
— Consumers: Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS in @Gemini_Notebook and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS in Google Vids
— Coming soon: Both models in Gemini Enterprise
https://t.co/BYjN0F9BmG
Create and deploy custom audio with our new text-to-speech models:
🔵 Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS: Design unique voices with distinct accents and characteristics.
🔵 Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS: Built for efficiency and scale, choose from your created styles or our expansive production-ready library.
Fine-tune the delivery line by line, shaping pacing, emotion, and cues like laughs or pauses.
All generated audio is watermarked with SynthID so it can be reliably identified as AI-generated.
Start building with the Gemini API via @GoogleAIStudio. Find out more → https://t.co/F93tMO9Fxt
With a page mention, a skill in Framer can point the agent to a page containing components and tell it to use that page by default when designing something new. Learn more about skills: https://t.co/JWstLXaDD5 https://t.co/wfDdLc5yrK
💚 Site of the Day - Dkton
by Barry Baris Dogan
⚙️ ScrollTrigger, ScrambleText, CustomEase
🛠️ @Webflow
site → https://t.co/AfVM3nKPFK
showcase → https://t.co/zGjV9MxQ0f https://t.co/hW3n8s7ctl
Should you review your AI-generated code?
Is RAG over?
Did Skills make MCP obsolete?
The GitHub Podcast responds to these hot takes 👇
https://t.co/7cOBj3MtKW
Thanks @arena for the recognition! 🏆 Qwen-Image-2.1 is now the #1 open-source model in both the Image Edit and Text-to-Image Arenas. Try it now and show us what you create! 🎨
