Claude Code 2.1.290 adds hook telemetry and session-name commands

Browserbase's Miguel González Fernández and Microsoft Research's Corby Rosset present research on verifiers for computer-use and web agents, where an official judge scored agent success at 74% while a better verifier put it at 38%.

Amazon Bedrock adds GLM 5.3, an open-weight model aimed at coding and agentic workloads such as refactoring repositories spanning hundreds of files and sustaining multi-hour agentic workflows with tool use.

An APK teardown found a "Gemini Calling" intro screen with examples like "Call Mom and tell her I will be 15 minutes late" and "Call John and ask if he is coming for dinner." The teardown also surfaced granular per-app permissions, including phone call settings, though Google may never ship the expansion.

Laurie Voss of Arize AI demos a toy-store agent that fails a request for toys under $6 because its search tool lacks a price filter, then adds observability to trace the failure and has a coding agent patch it.

Tencent published open weights for a new video generation model, hosted on Hugging Face under the FrancisRing/Prism repository. The release surfaced via r/StableDiffusion, where the poster asked whether anyone had tried it yet.