Meet WebBrain: An Open-Source, Local-First AI Browser Agent That Reads Pages and Automates Tasks in Chrome and Firefox

WebBrain is a free, open-source browser agent for Chrome and Firefox. It reads pages, extracts data, and automates multi-step tasks. Unlike most browser AI plugins, it can also run entirely…

Interfaze Ships diffusion-gemma-asr-small, an Open-Source Diffusion ASR Model Transcribing Six Languages via DiffusionGemma’s Parallel Denoising Decoder

Interfaze, a young YC’s startup, has open-sourced a new speech recognition model. It is called diffusion-gemma-asr-small. The model transcribes audio through a diffusion decoder, not an autoregressive one. It is…

RAG-Anything Tutorial: Build a Multimodal Retrieval Pipeline for Text, Tables, Equations, and Images in Colab

print(“\n[5/10] Creating a synthetic multimodal report…”) monthly_data = pd.DataFrame( { “Month”: [“Jan”, “Feb”, “Mar”, “Apr”, “May”, “Jun”], “Query Volume”: [1200, 1700, 2100, 2600, 3300, 4100], “Hybrid Accuracy”: [0.71, 0.74, 0.79,…

Meet Alibaba’s Page Agent: A JavaScript In-Page GUI Agent That Controls Web Interfaces With Natural Language Through the DOM

Most browser automation runs from the outside. Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, and browser-use all drive a browser from an external process. They read the page through screenshots or the Chrome DevTools…

The Google Health API Got a CLI: ghealth is an Open-Source Tool for Your Fitbit Air Data

The Google Health API is the official successor to the Fitbit Web API. It targets the Google Health API v4 and moves developers onto Google OAuth 2.0. Now an open-source…

Anthropic Redeploys Claude Fable 5 on July 1 After US Export Controls Lift, Adds New Cybersecurity Classifier

Anthropic is redeploying Claude Fable 5, its most capable generally available model. On June 30, it announced that US export controls had lifted. The controls had covered Claude Fable 5…

Using Lift to Turn Research PDFs into Structured JSON with Controlled, Schema-Guided Field-Level Evaluation

def render_pdf(d, path): “””Draw a realistic 3-page report. Page breaks are forced so the headline metric on page 1 (abstract) is physically separated from the results table on page 3.”””…

2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog

Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the…

Google AI Introduces TabFM: A Hybrid-Attention Tabular Foundation Model for Zero-Shot Classification and Regression

Google Research introduced TabFM, a foundation model built for tabular data. TabFM performs classification and regression without dataset-specific training. Every prediction comes from a single forward pass. The model reframes…

NVIDIA Releases Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower: an Open-Weight Diffusion Language Model Built on a Frozen Autoregressive Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B Backbone

NVIDIA has released Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower, a diffusion language model built on a pretrained autoregressive backbone. It ships as open weights under the NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License. The release targets a…