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Cartesia Launches Managed Agents End-to-End Voice Agent Platform

Cartesia has launched the Managed Agents end-to-end voice agent platform, targeting enterprise call scenarios. On Artificial Analysis's Speech Agent Arena, it ranks first among 30 agents with a preference Elo of 1115. On ServiceNow's EVA-Bench, the platform achieved an accuracy of 87.4% and an experience score of 90.7%, both the highest. The platform co-designs the voice model with the harness, offering capabilities such as 44 languages, tool calling, knowledge bases, and outbound calling batches. The company says it has already supported tens of millions of conversations in finance, retail, hospitality, and healthcare scenarios.

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Google Gemini adds file preview and editing features, allowing documents and spreadsheets to be modified directly in chat

Google has added file preview and editing features to Gemini, allowing users to generate, view, and modify documents directly in the chat interface without leaving the app. It supports PDF, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Slides, Markdown, TXT, and code files, and is available to all Gemini users starting today. PDF preview and editing are supported on both web and mobile, while other file types are currently supported only on web; users can edit in full screen, or select text to ask Gemini questions and request modifications.

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GGoogle Blog12:46First-partyProduct release

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Gemini Notebook Adds Hundreds of Free Textbooks

Gemini Notebook has added hundreds of textbooks from U.S. and Indian publishers such as OpenStax, Open Textbook Library, and S Chand Publishing, which students can add for free. After adding textbooks, every answer is directly grounded in the textbook content, with inline citations and links to the original text, and the textbook content can also be turned into study guides, practice questions, and flashcards. Users can select Add sources in a notebook and then choose Textbooks to view and add them.

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GGoogle Blog12:46First-partyProduct release

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Gemini app now supports generating, previewing, and editing documents directly

The Gemini app now adds the ability to generate, preview, and edit files within a conversation; you can type edits directly in full screen, select text to ask questions, or have Gemini rewrite the file. PDF preview and editing are supported on both web and mobile, while other formats such as Google Docs, Google Sheets, Slides, Markdown, TXT, and code are supported only on web. This feature is available to all users in all languages covered by the Gemini app.

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NNVIDIA Blog12:45First-partyProduct release

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NVIDIA RTX Spark Laptop Update: Adds Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Local Agent Tools

NVIDIA announced multiple updates for RTX Spark thin-and-light laptops, including the open-weight voice model Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, support for Liquid AI's LFM3 model family, and a control in the NVIDIA App that can allocate GPU resources between foreground applications and background agents. Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe supports transcription, speaker labeling, and translation in 40 languages, has approximately 4.3 billion active parameters, and is now available on Hugging Face. RTX Spark laptops are now shipping from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, and MSI, with a starting price of $2,599.

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EElevenLabs Blog12:45First-partyProduct release

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ElevenLabs Releases Forced Alignment Model Cue, Supporting Character-Level Audio Timestamps

ElevenLabs has released the forced alignment model Cue, which can pinpoint the exact time point for each character in audio and has already been used in the Scribe speech-to-text model family. Cue covers more than 90 benchmark languages, processes recordings of any length in a single pass, and takes about half a second to align 1 hour of audio on production GPUs; on benchmarks across 29 languages, its accuracy is higher than all alignment tools tested by ElevenLabs. The model is also available separately through the Forced Alignment API.

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ElevenLabs Releases Sound Effects Model SFX v3, Now Live on ElevenCreative and ElevenAPI

ElevenLabs has released its next-generation sound effects model SFX v3, now live on ElevenCreative and ElevenAPI. According to the company, in benchmark tests it handles prompts describing multiple sounds more reliably than SFX v2, generates music and voices more convincingly, and produces less noise in sound effects such as gongs, bells, and whistles. Users can generate sound effects via text prompts in Flows, the Sound Effects tab, Studio, and Music Editor, and developers can access it through ElevenAPI.

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MiniMax Open-Sources MCode Stack: 17 Agent Skills and 5 Checklists

On October 28, MiniMax open-sourced MCode Stack under the MIT license, including the 17 SKILL.md skills and 5 checklists its team used to build MiniMax Code, but not the MiniMax Code source code. The skills are grouped into planning and decomposition, context and tools, long sessions and commands, review, and experiments and hotfixes, among which independent-review provides reviewers only with the diff, requirements, and test results. It can be installed into MiniMax Code by copying the skill directories, via a local plugin, or through the plugin marketplace, and can also be installed in Claude Code with /plugin marketplace add MiniMax-AI/mcode-stack; the original article did not publish evaluation results.

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AssemblyAI Releases Its First Speech Synthesis Model, AssemblyAI-TTS-1, at $15 per Million Characters

AssemblyAI has released its first text-to-speech model, AssemblyAI-TTS-1, and officially opened it up, targeting real-time telephony voice agents, priced at $15 per million characters, with no annual contracts and no concurrency tiers. The model is offered only as a hosted API in us-east-1 and eu-north-1, supports HTTP, WebSocket and OpenAI-compatible interfaces, and comes with more than 4,000 voices, instant voice cloning and 6 languages. The vendor's own testing shows 93.7% entity accuracy and a median time to first byte of 47 ms, but Cekura's independent benchmark measured 159 ms streaming latency and 81.5% reading accuracy, and at launch it does not yet support SSML, speaking-rate control or emotion tags.

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MMarkTechPost12:45Product release

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Infini-AI-Lab open-sources the Hermit harness adapter framework

Infini-AI-Lab has released the open-source framework Hermit, which adapts AI agents by training external harness adapters while keeping the model and harness frozen; v0.1.0 was released on October 25, 2026. The framework is implemented in Python under the Apache-2.0 license and can be installed via pip install hermit-harness, and it includes five evolution methods: GEPA, SkillOpt, MetaWorld Model, Harness², and Continual Harness. On GLM 5.3 Flash, the MWM adapter achieved 0.795 accuracy on the CL-Bench database exploration task, higher than the in-context baseline of 0.580, but most results are self-reported data from a single run.

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MMarkTechPost12:45Product release

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Prime Intellect Releases Prime Mega MoE Training Kernel, Up to 3.11x Faster in Forward Pass

Prime Intellect has released Prime Mega MoE, which builds on the Mega MoE kernel from DeepSeek's open-source DeepGEMM library by adding a fused and overlapped backward pass, making it usable for training rather than inference only. In the prime-rl trainer, the full training step for Qwen3 MoE models is 32% to 34% faster than the baseline and 48% to 55% faster than TorchTitan; the single-layer forward pass is up to 3.11x faster (from 12.0 ms to 3.9 ms), but the backward pass for Qwen3-235B-A22B is only 1.24x faster. The kernel supports BF16, MXFP8 on Blackwell, and blockwise FP8 on Hopper, is released with prime-rl under Apache 2.0, and is enabled through the mega_moe dispatch backend.

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LimX Dynamics' Open-Source FluxVLA Engine Update Connects the Entire Embodied Intelligence Pipeline from Data and Training to Evaluation and Deployment

LimX Dynamics' open-source embodied intelligence engineering foundation FluxVLA Engine completed a major update on October 22. The technical report shows that it has incorporated heterogeneous policies such as OpenVLA, π0.5, DiT4DiT, and GR00T into a single pipeline for data, training, evaluation, and deployment. On the NVIDIA AGX Orin 64GB, GR00T's inference frequency increased from 3.2Hz to 7.4Hz, and π0.5 from 1.4Hz to 4.4Hz; together with RTC and a three-step trajectory post-processing mechanism, it connects to real-robot execution. In terms of online RL, SmolVLA's success rate on LIBERO-10 rose from 66.2% to 76.2%, and on 10 tasks in RoboTwin Clean from 45.9% to 61.3%.

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TRAE Launches Developer Personal Assistant TRAE Bao, Introducing a Dual-Layer Global and Project Assistant

AI development product TRAE officially launched its developer personal assistant TRAE Bao on October 29, introducing a dual-layer assistant system of a global assistant plus a project assistant into development workflows. The global assistant can read developers' past tasks, conversations, and artifacts, automatically fill in project context and historical decisions for new tasks, and supports binding to instant messaging tools such as Feishu and WeChat to dispatch tasks and sync progress. The project assistant, based on the current project context, breaks complex requirements into multiple subtasks to advance in parallel, integrate, and summarize. The current version only supports local tasks; cloud tasks and mobile capabilities will be opened in subsequent iterations.

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LLeiphone12:45Product release

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Ant Group's Lingguang 2.0 connects DingTalk, Alipay and dozens of other services

After Ant Group released Lingguang 2.0 on October 27, the new version of Lingguang has natively integrated with the Alipay ecosystem and connected to dozens of external tools including the DingTalk command-line interface (CLI). Taking DingTalk as an example, after user authorization Lingguang can invoke capabilities such as group chats, to-dos, calendars and documents, summarizing group chat highlights in the background, extracting to-dos and following up with reminders. Lingguang 2.0's core upgrades cover cross-session memory, long-horizon task scheduling and tool connectivity, and it supports connecting to applications such as Feishu, DiDi, Amap, Baidu Netdisk and Mijia through protocols including MCP and CLI.

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Doubao Work opens third-party model configuration to enterprise customers, with Kimi 3.1 Pro, GLM 5.3, DeepSeek V4.1 among the first batch…

Doubao Work today opened third-party large model services to Team Subscription and Enterprise Subscription customers, with the first batch including the Kimi 3.1 Pro, GLM 5.3, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash series models. After this feature launches, it is enabled by default; enterprises do not need to separately purchase from model vendors or submit additional applications, and usage is deducted from the enterprise's existing AI credits. Enterprises can define the available scope by member, department, group, or all employees, and specify the scenarios in which the models take effect, including the Doubao desktop app, Doubao Work desktop app, Doubao mobile app, Doubao web version, and Doubao Work within Feishu.

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DeepSeek Open-Sources Inference Engine DeepInfer, Discloses That a Single Cluster Processes About 155 Trillion Tokens per Day

DeepSeek has open-sourced its inference engine DeepInfer on GitHub—the inference engine behind DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash—which includes technologies such as MoE expert parallelism, asynchronous batch scheduling, custom kernels, and speculative decoding, and discloses that a single cluster needs to process about 155 trillion tokens per day. Its Zero-Overhead Batch Scheduler lets the CPU schedule computation one round ahead, overlapping with GPU forward passes, and handles cross-round state misalignment through total_inflight_tokens accounting, Remap mapping, and DeferredRelease deferred reclamation. What is currently available is offline inference capability; components such as online KV Cache storage and cross-replica load balancing have not yet been fully disclosed, and the official team has not separately published end-to-end speedup data for this scheduling mechanism relative to synchronous solutions.

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Tencent WorkBuddy Upgrades to Enterprise Edition and Releases Buddy One Cross-App Collaboration System

At the 2026 Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Tencent announced that WorkBuddy has cumulatively completed 9 billion task requests since its launch in March this year, and that its enterprise edition has been deployed across more than 50 industries. At the event, it released the Buddy One cross-app AI collaboration system, which connects WorkBuddy, Tencent Docs, Tencent Meeting, Tencent Drive, and ima to share a common Agent foundation, and simultaneously launched Tencent Drive to serve as unified storage. The enterprise edition also upgraded its security and observability capabilities and released the WorkBuddy Managed Agent (WMA), allowing enterprises to codify workflows into Skills and have them run 24/7 in the cloud; the ecosystem currently brings together more than 50,000 partners and developers, with over 200,000 Skills listed.

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Google Launches Connected Apps Platform, Opening Gemini and Search Access to Developers

Google has released the Connected Apps Platform, allowing enterprises and developers to submit their own apps for integration with Gemini and Google Search, and to choose to launch on only one or both. The platform is currently available in beta preview to US developers; after launch, it will allow tracking of traffic, latency, and error rates, while retaining brand identity and verified accounts. Gemini already has more than 50 Connected Apps, including partners such as Adobe, Experian, Localiza, and Peloton; these apps will enter Google Search in the coming weeks. The meditation app Calm will also launch on Gemini and Search.

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Chrome's AI Autofill Can Read Gmail Content to Fill Out Forms

Google announced that Chrome will launch an advanced version of AI autofill that can extract information such as flight confirmation numbers, membership IDs, shipping information, order numbers, addresses, phone numbers, or credit card numbers from users' Gmail to fill in online forms. This feature is an extension of Google Personal Intelligence; users can choose whether to enable it in Chrome settings, and sensitive data will be encrypted. The feature will first roll out to desktop users in the United States and will also arrive in the Gemini iOS and Android apps within Chrome.

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LangChain open-sources Slack design Agent Content Studio and its harness

LangChain has open-sourced Content Studio, a design Agent within Slack, along with the harness that supports it; after forking, teams can attach their own branding and deploy it to their team's Slack via Managed Deep Agents. The article states that since August it has delivered 3,000+ assets (including 80+ PPTs), the median model cost per request has dropped from about $8 in mid-September to about $0.50, and after migrating to Managed Deep Agents its own code volume was reduced by about 80%. In terms of approach, designer judgment is written into skills, a wiki, and code gates; each Slack thread is equipped with a persistent sandbox, and subtasks are dispatched asynchronously to avoid blocking the main thread.

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How we built Content Studio, an open-source design agent in Slack that makes on-brand videos, graphics and decks, and the harness that powers it. https://t.co/pevQsp0A4J

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