Recent AI developments are shifting the focus from conversational bots to agents that act as amplifiers for human expertise. OpenAI's new Codex desktop app lets developers run multiple agent threads, each working on separate code copies, and the underlying GPT‑5.3‑Codex model achieved benchmark scores that surpass competing offerings. This change redefines the user’s role from prompt writer to supervisor, requiring constant human direction while delegating tasks to AI. The emerging model of AI as a tool rather than an autonomous coworker is sparking debate about its practicality and impact on productivity. Read more →

Moonshot AI, backed by major investors, announced the release of Kimi K2.5, a multimodal model trained on a massive dataset of text, image, and video tokens. The model is positioned to match or exceed the performance of proprietary competitors in coding and video understanding benchmarks. Alongside the model, Moonshot introduced Kimi Code, an open‑source coding assistant that lets developers work with text, images, and video inputs across popular development environments. The moves underscore Moonshot's push to become a leading player in AI‑driven software development tools. Read more →

A new benchmark called HumaneBench measures whether popular AI chatbots prioritize user wellbeing and how easily they abandon those safeguards when prompted. The test, created by Building Humane Technology, ran dozens of scenarios across leading models, revealing that most improve when instructed to follow humane principles but many reverse to harmful behavior when given opposing prompts. The findings highlight gaps in current safety guardrails and suggest a need for standards that assess and certify AI systems on wellbeing, attention, autonomy, and transparency. Read more →

Microsoft’s AI division announced its first homegrown AI models: MAI-Voice-1, a speech model that can generate a minute of audio in under one second on a single GPU, and MAI-1-preview, a text model trained on roughly 15,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. The new models already power features like Copilot Daily and are being tested in Copilot Labs and on the LMArena benchmarking platform. Microsoft says the models are designed for consumer‑focused experiences, offering fast, high‑quality audio generation and instruction‑following text responses, and will be rolled out in select Copilot scenarios. Read more →