NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt
According to NVIDIA, Super VL is a 120-billion-parameter open model for agents, and Bolt 74B runs locally on NVIDIA hardware. Both are available now; Bolt E4B ships October 23.
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According to NVIDIA, Super VL is a 120-billion-parameter open model for agents, and Bolt 74B runs locally on NVIDIA hardware. Both are available now; Bolt E4B ships October 23.
In the new update, every bot gets an inbox of its own, reads X without a connected account and can pay, and it checks for your approval before anything irreversible.
From 2,500 merges a day in May to over 30,000 in September: tools built for humans could not keep up with agents, so Anthropic built a new system in five months.
Memory that carries across conversations, a 1M-token context and a model built to push through hard tasks: Meta aims its new generation at agents that do real work.
Google Cloud used Gemini at Work 2026 to introduce the Gemini agent, a single agent for work that takes objectives instead of instructions, plans on its own, connects to company systems and works inside Gmail, Docs and Sheets. It picks between Gemini and Claude models, can spin up coworker agents with their own email addresses, and comes with real-time spend caps.
At a Microsoft event in San Francisco, Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella introduced RTX Spark, which brings NVIDIA’s full AI stack to Windows PCs. Laptop preorders are open and units ship October 16. Microsoft also made MXC, its secure runtime for AI agents on Windows, generally available.
Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5, a small, fast model for high-volume work such as summaries, classification and subagents. The company says it costs about 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5 on average. Sonnet 5.5 cache reads also got cheaper, and Max and Team subscribers get monthly API credits.
Under a new agreement, OpenAI’s GPT-6 models will power agents in Rovo and across Atlassian’s platform, while new plugins bring Jira work items and Confluence content straight into ChatGPT and Codex. More than 3,000 Atlassian developers already use Codex.
Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta Enterprise Platform, a new business unit that will sell Meta’s AI products to companies and developers, from the Muse agent to Muse Code. It will be led by CJ Desai, until now CEO of MongoDB.
xAI is launching Team Bots: shared Grok Bots with team files, plugins, and skills, while each conversation stays private. Internal examples plus Harper’s $120k quote.