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xAI has launched a free Grok add-on for Google Workspace, bringing AI assistance directly into Sheets, Slides, and Docs. In Sheets, Grok answers questions by citing specific cells, writes formulas, and inserts charts. In Slides, it builds presentations from outlines using web and X research. In Docs, it drafts structured content from notes and can pull from Gmail or Google Drive with connectors enabled. A single install from the Google Workspace Marketplace covers all three apps.

Midjourney has acquired personalized astrology app Co-Star, with the deal reportedly closing in spring, though financial terms remain undisclosed. Co-Star founder Banu Guler will retain leadership of the app while also joining Midjourney as chief design officer. Midjourney founder David Holz says Guler and her team will help build the company's first standalone apps, including one focused on image generation. Midjourney currently delivers its AI models via the web and Discord. Co-Star combines NASA data, human insight, and AI for daily horoscopes.

Anthropic and Andon Labs have released Drone-Bench, a new benchmark testing AI models on autonomous drone surveillance tasks including locating and following a specific person in an indoor office environment. Tested across 15 models from multiple developers, the benchmark decomposes the task into five sub-tasks: reconstruct, localize, navigate, detect, and follow. Claude Fable 5 performed best, exceeding the human baseline on four of five tasks but failing at 3D reconstruction, which prevented autonomous room-to-room navigation on a real drone.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang published his first post on X sharing a letter NVIDIA signed advocating for open AI models. Huang argues that AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country. He contends open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable national sovereignty. Huang concludes the world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models to coexist.

xAI has launched Workflows in Grok Build, enabling parallel agent orchestration for complex, multi-step tasks. Users describe a task in plain language, and Grok plans it as a script, fanning work out across up to 128 agents by default or 1,024 for large jobs. Agents run in parallel background phases covering context, review, verification, and synthesis. Workflows are saved in .grok/workflows/ for team sharing and become reusable slash commands. A built-in /deep-research workflow is included, and sessions remain free throughout.

Amazon has launched new developer tools for Alexa+, including an AI-powered smart home toolkit, Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, and Amazon Wallet integration. The smart home toolkit lets device makers like Bosch, Whirlpool, Eufy, and iRobot connect devices with unique capabilities to Alexa+. MCP support allows brands like Priceline, Canva, and Lyft to integrate their services faster. Amazon Wallet enables frictionless voice-based checkout using saved Amazon payment credentials, with Fandango, Atom Tickets, and Taskrabbit among early adopters.

AMD has announced its 6th Gen EPYC 9006 "Venice" server CPUs, built on the Zen 6 architecture using TSMC's 2nm process. The chips offer up to 256 cores and 512 threads per socket, 16 channels of DDR5 memory with MRDIMM support up to 12,800 MT/s, and PCIe Gen 6 connectivity. AMD claims a 174% geomean performance gain over Intel Xeon 6980P across CPU-centric agentic AI pipeline stages, including orchestration, retrieval, database queries, and tool execution workloads.

AMD has launched Helios, a rack-scale AI platform built around 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs with HBM4 memory, designed to rival NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72. The system delivers 2.9 exaflops of FP4 compute, 31 TB of HBM4, and 260 TB/s of scale-up bandwidth. AMD claims Helios offers up to 15% more AI compute, 50% more HBM capacity, and 50% more scale-out bandwidth than the NVL72. It pairs MI455X GPUs with EPYC Venice CPUs, Pensando networking, and ROCm software in a co-designed open platform.