AI News: Impressive New Model From Unexpected Company

A weekly AI news roundup covering several notable developments: Thinking Machines Labs (founded by former OpenAI interim CEO Mira Murati) debuted impressive real-time interaction model demos featuring simultaneous translation, proactive interruption, and concurrent tool use. OpenAI launched Codex mobile access. Anthropic introduced Claude Code agent view, expanded industry-specific MCP connectors, and controversially changed subscription pricing to credit-based API billing. Anthropic surpassed OpenAI in business adoption for the first time. Google previewed Android AI features and the new 'Google Book' laptop with Gemini integration. Meta rolled out Llama-based Llama Spark broadly and added WhatsApp incognito AI chat. Notion launched a developer platform with CLI and agent SDK. Digg relaunched as an AI-powered trend tracker. Figure Robotics ran a 34+ hour robot livestream sorting 43,000 packages. Google IO previews hint at Gemini 3.2 Flash and a new Gemini Spark agent.