Agentic AI

French startup Genesis AI, backed by Eric Schmidt and $105M, launches Eno—a non-humanoid robot with human-like hands. It targets factories, labs, and eventually homes, challenging the humanoid trend with a focus on dexterity and practicality.

Pinterest unveils a Business Assistant in Ads Manager, a Model Context Protocol for agentic AI, dynamic creative selection, and the Ask Pinterest experimental app. These tools target its 631 million users, most with shopping intent, to sharpen ad performance and discovery.

China's Ministry of Commerce and seven other ministries released a plan with 17 measures to integrate AI into consumer goods and services, aiming to boost growth through robots, subsidies, and infrastructure. The initiative targets millions of households and shops, focusing on humanoid robots and AI assistants.

Cloudflare introduces Temporary Accounts for Agents, removing sign-up barriers so AI coding agents can deploy Workers directly. The feature uses a new Wrangler flag for instant, autonomous deployments within a 60-minute window.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced a three-year target for criminal justice delivery and launched AI-powered tools for predictive policing. The initiative aims to transform India's law enforcement with data analytics and forensic science.

NHAI has launched an in-house AI system that lets officials upload photos to detect road defects and scan project reports for errors. The tool, including the Margsarthi chat agent, has already handled over 50,000 queries.

AWS now offers Mistral AI's Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512 in SageMaker JumpStart. The 14B-parameter model combines vision, text, and agentic features like function calling for edge deployment.

Google is releasing Ask Ad Manager, an AI agent that automates routine advertising tasks for publishers and agencies. The beta launches this month, with new skills and developer tools planned throughout the year.

Google's new Home Speaker integrates Gemini AI for multi-step voice commands and sustainable design. Available in four colors, it features a privacy mute switch and light ring underglow.