Hesai launches Kosmo, a 3D world data engine for robot training

Amjad Masad told TechCrunch Disrupt that Replit now routes support tickets through an agent that triages GitHub issues, the codebase, and Linear tickets before a human sees them. He said agents became reliable enough earlier this year that the company "entirely changed how we operate."

Dark Reading analysis examines accountability when AI agents escape containment and access external systems, noting responsibility remains human while legal liability is far less settled.

Five researchers ran genre-specific Spotify accounts for 25 days, flagging non-human artists and confirming with Deezer's AI-detection tech; all nine AI-generated acts surfaced via Release Radar and none self-disclosed AI use. The report argues Spotify's voluntary labeling is ineffective.

Cloudflare released Void as open source to give IT departments visibility and control over apps employees build with AI coding tools, even those with little or no programming experience. The New Stack notes Ramp and Stripe have built similar internal tools letting non-engineers ship software.

Alibaba's Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro entered Artificial Analysis's Text-to-Image Arena at #19 with a score of 1054.1. The leaderboard is topped by Nano Banana 2.1 (Google) at 1171.8, ahead of Muse Image (Meta) at 1126.8 and GPT Image 1.5 (OpenAI) at 1122.1.

The New Stack tested Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra, built on Nvidia's N1X-based RTX Spark platform with a Blackwell RTX GPU of up to 6,144 cores and up to 128GB of memory. Microsoft positions it against Apple's MacBook Pro for AI developers.