The AI startup Dreamer is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs with its entire team, bringing co-founder Hugo Barra—a former Meta VP—back into Mark Zuckerberg's orbit. The deal marks Meta's second move in agent-based AI this year as the company tries to regain ground against competitors.

OpenAI is sweetening the deal for private equity firms with a guaranteed 17.5 percent minimum return to win them over for enterprise joint ventures.

The Chinese technology company Xiaomi wants to build AI agents that can independently control software, shop in the browser and, in the future, also control robots. The in-house MiMo team has presented three models at the same time.

Luma AI takes on OpenAI and Google with Uni-1, a model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture and reasons through prompts as it creates.

New research can’t yet say whether AI causes delusions or amplifies them, a distinction that will shape everything from high-profile court cases to safety rules for chatbots.