EU AI Act enforcement begins: what providers of GPAI models must do today
As of this week, providers of general-purpose AI models face binding obligations under the EU AI Act. Here’s the practical checklist.
Cybersecurity
Generative AI
Midjourney V7 makes “personalization” the default — and the results are striking
V7’s `–p` mode learns your aesthetic from a brief onboarding session, then bakes that style into every render. It’s the biggest creative leap since V5.
AI Tools
Cursor’s Composer mode is becoming the way pros write code
Multi-file edits, terminal awareness and tight git integration are turning Cursor from a fancy IDE into something closer to a junior engineer that lives in your editor.
Generative AI
Runway Gen-4 finally cracks consistent characters across shots
The newest version of Runway’s video model keeps a character’s face, outfit and lighting consistent across multiple cuts — a long-standing pain point for generative video.
Automation
LangChain’s LangGraph Platform goes GA with managed agent orchestration
After 6 months of preview, LangGraph Platform is now generally available with autoscaling, durable runs, and a visual debugger that actually works.
Prompt Engineering
Meta-prompting is the new prompt engineering
You don’t write prompts anymore — you write prompts that write prompts. Inside the shift to meta-prompting and why frontier teams are adopting it.
Artificial Intelligence
Apple Intelligence quietly ships a new on-device foundation model
iOS 18.5 includes a refreshed 3B-parameter model running on-device, with significant improvements to summarization and writing tools.
Machine Learning
DeepMind’s AlphaProof solves a long-open combinatorics conjecture
In a paper published in Nature, DeepMind’s formal-math system AlphaProof contributed a key lemma in the proof of a 40-year-old combinatorics conjecture.
Automation
Stripe ships an Agent Toolkit so AI agents can actually move money
A new SDK from Stripe lets AI agents create invoices, charge cards and issue refunds — with first-class safety controls.
Artificial Intelligence
Cohere’s Command R+ becomes the dark-horse enterprise pick
It doesn’t make TechCrunch headlines often, but Cohere’s Command R+ is winning enterprise RAG deployments on price, latency and on-prem deployability.