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GitHub important AI agents

GitHub has released a public preview of the dynamic workflows feature for controlling agents via code

The dynamic workflows feature is available in public preview in Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot app, and GitHub Copilot SDK on all GitHub Copilot plans. It allows defining sequential and concurrent steps and agent involvement in code.

What you get out of it

For recurring tasks, you can specify in code when the agent should step in and how its result is used in subsequent steps.

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important New models

AstaBrief 8B model released for scientific reports with citations, weights and training data also available

The AstaBrief 8B model generates scientific reports with citations and is available in the Fast mode of the Asta service. The authors are releasing both the weights and the training data. According to their measurements, the entire process takes an average of 51.1 seconds compared to 178.5 seconds in Thinking mode.

What you get out of it

For research, you can use the Fast mode of the Asta service to get a preliminary report with citations more quickly, which can then be further developed.

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important Local AI

Liquid AI releases draft model LFM2.5-VL-DSpark for faster vision-language model inference

Liquid AI has released the draft model LFM2.5-VL-DSpark (280M parameters) for speculative decoding with the LFM2.5-VL-3B model. According to the company, it speeds up decoding by up to 3.13× on-device and up to 2.66× on the H100, with day-one support in llama.cpp, MLX-VLM and SGLang.

What you get out of it

Developers deploying LFM2.5-VL-3B can add the DSpark draft model to speed up decoding without changing the output, with support in llama.cpp, MLX-VLM and SGLang.

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worth noting Tools and apps

Airbnb rolls out AI property search in its app

The company Airbnb has launched AI property search in its app with text and voice queries, dynamic filters, and AI comparison of features. According to CEO Brian Chesky, the main challenge is maintaining the conversion rate, not creating the feature itself.

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What you get out of it

Users of the Airbnb app can now search for properties with a text or voice query and receive dynamic filters as well as AI comparisons of selected features based on their preferences.

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worth noting New models

NVIDIA releases open foundation model Kumo Tabular for tabular prediction without training

NVIDIA has released the open foundation model Kumo Tabular (28–215M parameters) for classification and regression on tabular data. According to the company, the model predicts without training, tuning, or feature engineering, and leads on the TabArena, BeyondArena, TALENT, and ScoringBench benchmarks.

What you get out of it

Data scientists and ML engineers can use the model directly for classification and regression tasks on tabular data without training, hyperparameter tuning, or manual feature creation.

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GitHub worth noting AI agents

GitHub Security Lab released the open source AI agent Taskflow Agent for security auditing of Android applications

GitHub Security Lab has released Taskflow Agent, an open source AI agent that uses custom LLM prompts to automate the search for security bugs in Android applications. According to the company, the tool has thus found more than 24 vulnerabilities, for example in the navigation app OsmAnd.

What you get out of it

A security researcher or Android app developer can use the tool for an automated initial scan of their own code for typical vulnerability classes instead of purely manual analysis.

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OpenAI worth noting Tools and apps

OpenAI introduces Ultrafast mode for the GPT-6 Astra model in the Responses API

OpenAI has added a new "ultrafast" service tier to the Responses API for the GPT-6 Astra model, which reduces latency between generated output tokens. The feature does not support EU or other regional data residency.

What you get out of it

Developers building their own applications on top of the GPT-6 Astra model API can speed up response generation in latency-sensitive features by enabling service_tier ultrafast.

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GitHub worth noting Tools and apps

GitHub Copilot in Slack and Microsoft Teams: public preview of an improved integration

GitHub has launched a public preview update to GitHub Copilot for Slack and Microsoft Teams with improved use of conversation context, model switching, and linking to GitHub issues. Available for Business and Enterprise plans, gradual rollout.

What you get out of it

GitHub Copilot users can now work with context directly from chat tools – sharing files, images, and conversation history without manual copying, and selecting a model based on the needs of a given message.

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DeepSeek worth noting Open-source

Deepseek and Huawei release open-source language TileLang for Ascend chips

In collaboration with Huawei, Deepseek has released as open source the TileLang programming language and computation libraries for Huawei Ascend chips. The goal is to create an alternative to the CUDA platform for Chinese AI hardware.

What you get out of it

Developers working with AI infrastructure are getting another open-source tool worth following as a potential alternative to CUDA, though for now it is tied to Chinese Ascend hardware.

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GitHub worth noting Tools and apps

GitHub Copilot for JetBrains 1.18.0 adds AI-assisted tool approvals and planning mode for the Codex agent

GitHub has released version 1.18.0 of the GitHub Copilot plugin for JetBrains IDEs with automatic approval of low-risk agent actions, the ability to rewrite an earlier message, organizational skills/instructions, and planning mode in the Codex agent.

What you get out of it

Developers using JetBrains IDEs with GitHub Copilot will get fewer approval interruptions for low-risk agent actions, the ability to return to an earlier message in the conversation, and the option to review a plan before the Codex agent starts making changes.

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Hugging Face worth noting New models

Release of open-source agentic models Holo4 for GUI, code, and API automation

The new family of open-source agentic models Holo4 (27B dense, 35B-A3B MoE) handles GUI control, writing and running code, MCP, and API all in one model. On OSWorld 2.0, Holo4-27B achieves 61.7% compared to 81.8% for the Opus 5.5 model, but at significantly lower cost.

What you get out of it

Developers and individuals experimenting with agentic models gain a freely available alternative that can be run locally or via API, without having to pay for closed frontier models.

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worth noting Marketing

The Instagram platform adds an AI assistant for content analysis to the Edits app

The Edits app is getting an AI assistant that uses data from the account on the Instagram platform to explain content performance and suggest further content creation. Use is free up to a certain limit; a Meta One subscription is meant to allow for higher usage.

What you get out of it

When planning the next video, a creator can ask for an explanation of differences in their posts' performance and for suggestions based on their own account's data.

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