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Today's topics:

Spreadsheet agents and data exfiltration - A prompt-injection flaw in Ramp’s Sheets AI showed how agentic spreadsheets can leak confidential finance data via hidden instructions and malicious formulas—raising urgent prompt-injection and data-loss keywords.

Google’s Jules for product teams - Google opened an early-access waitlist for Jules, an end-to-end agentic product development platform that turns feedback, logs, and support signals into proposed features and code changes via pull requests.

Enterprise agent platforms and web search - From AWS “managed agents” with OpenAI to Parag Agrawal’s Parallel Web Systems funding, the ecosystem is racing to build the infrastructure that lets AI agents search, act, and operate inside enterprises.

Open multimodal and vision models - NVIDIA’s open-weights Nemotron 3 Nano Omni and Meta’s open Sapiens2 push practical multimodal and human-centric vision forward, emphasizing long-context understanding and accessible foundation backbones.

New Transformer architecture for efficiency - Harvard’s Recurrent Transformer claims better quality-per-compute by rethinking how attention states flow over time, aiming for lower inference memory pressure without changing core autoregressive costs.

Creative software gets AI connectors - Anthropic’s new Claude connectors bring natural-language control into tools like Blender and Adobe ecosystems, shifting AI from chat windows into daily creative production workflows.

AI governance, military access, regulation - Google’s reported DoD access deal, plus criticism of apocalyptic AI warnings, highlight the widening gap between what firms promise about safeguards and how governments want broad operational latitude.

AI business jitters and compute costs - Reports of OpenAI missing targets and worrying about future compute commitments rattled AI-linked stocks, spotlighting monetization pressure, capex scrutiny, and the economics of scaling frontier models.

Open-source norms in the LLM era - Zig’s strict ban on LLM-generated contributions illustrates a cultural split in open source: optimizing for fast patches versus building trusted maintainers and durable community expertise.

-Google Opens Early Access for Jules Agentic Product Development Platform
-NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, a Long-Context Multimodal Model for Documents, Audio, and Video Agents
-Ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal’s Parallel Web Systems Raises $100M at $2B Valuation
-Mike launches as an open-source, self-hostable legal AI alternativ