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Today’s Headlines:

• Tavus Launches AI Video Agents With Emotional Intelligence - Unlike traditional AI assistants that rely solely on text or voice, Tavus CVI perceives emotions, understands context, and responds with human-like timing and expressions. The company describes it as "the next era of AI interaction," where digital conversations feel genuinely lifelike for the first time.

  
  
  
  

• Manus AI: The First Fully Autonomous AI Agent Sets New Benchmark Records - Manus, the world’s first fully autonomous AI agent, is designed to handle real-world tasks independently, without human intervention. Manus claims state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance across multiple AI benchmarks, including GAIA, which evaluates general AI assistants on solving complex, real-world problems.
  
  
  
  

• Amazon AWS Launches Agentic AI Group to Advance Automation - Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new group dedicated to agentic artificial intelligence (AI)—a technology designed to automate tasks without requiring user prompts. Alongside the launch of the agentic AI group, AWS announced several structural changes aimed at accelerating innovation.
  
  
  
  

• Mistral Unveils OCR API for Superior Document Understanding - Mistral OCR is built to extract and structure content from images and PDFs, processing text, tables, equations, and media elements with high fidelity and across multiple languages. The company describes it as the new gold standard in document understanding, surpassing competing OCR models in benchmarks across multiple dimensions.
  
  
  

• TSMC Expands U.S. Chip Investment to $165B - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s largest semiconductor maker, will invest an additional $100 billion in U.S. chip manufacturing. This new investment is in addition to the $65 billion the company had previously committed.
  
  
  

• U.S. Department of Labor Investigates Scale AI Over Labor Practices - The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is investigating Scale AI, a San Francisco-based data-labeling company, for potential violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The FLSA regulates wage payments, worker classification, and protections against employer retaliation.
  
  
  

• Anthropic Urges U.S. Action on AI Security, Economy, and Infrastructure - Anthropic has submitted a 10-page proposal to the White House, outlining key policy actions to safeguard national security and drive economic growth in the era of advanced AI. The company urges the federal government to act swiftly to ensure the U.S. remains at the forefront of AI development while mitigating potential threats.

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In this section, you'll find short, practical tutorials that walk you through using the latest AI tools, helping you quickly unlock their full potential.

Today’s AI in Action: Connecting Claude Projects with GitHub repos

In this tutorial, you will learn how you can use Claude's GitHub integration to connect repositories directly to your AI assistant for comprehensive code understanding and support.

Step-by-step:

• Set up a Claude project named “Code Assistant: [Repo Name]" with description: “Workspace to analyze and improve [Repository Name] codebase.”

• Select "GitHub" from the “Add Content” menu and authorize the Claude GitHub app when prompted.

• Choose your repository and select specific files you’ll need help with.

• Start asking questions about your code – Claude can explain functions, suggest improvements, and even help with debugging.

Pro tip: You can also use the "Sync now" button to update your project whenever your repository changes, ensuring Claude always works with your latest codebase.

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