Models
Alibaba Cloud adds Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash with 1M multimodal context
Text, image, audio and video input with tool calling and web search. Suited to long-form media analysis and multimodal agents without manual chunking.
AI news
Saturday, 19 September 2026
Language
Alibaba ships Qwen3.8 LiveTranslate for 60-language realtime speech
Real-time audio and video translation with about 2.3-second latency, speech output in 29 languages, speaker diarization and voice cloning for meetings and localisation APIs.
Agents
Anthropic redesigns Claude Projects for parallel Claude Code agents
A coordinator runs cloud threads with shared memory and artifacts. Beta for select Pro and Max users; local tools follow later.
Agents
Anthropic says Claude leads 26 percent of its AI R and D
New R and D Automation Index also covers agent oversight and safety compute share. Follows Amodei's pace-the-frontier push.
Communication
OpenAI tests Sponsored Agents in ChatGPT ads
After an ad click, users can open a labelled chat with a business agent. Ads Manager adds prompt tools, HubSpot and Shopify links, and optional auto-translated copy.
Security
Researchers used Claude Opus 5 to help breach OpenAI accounts
A bug-bounty team chained a Discourse image bug with an OpenAI SSO flaw to reach employee ChatGPT, Codex and internal GitHub. OpenAI says the issues are fixed.