This daily roundup highlights new AI tools, models, and research—from Mistral’s OCR 4 and ByteDance’s Seedance 2.5 video generator to Anthropic’s Claude Tag and IBM’s CUGA agent harness. It also covers security deep dives on indirect prompt injection, industry moves like OpenAI’s bidirectional voice and US‐Meta AI reviews, plus several open-source releases.

• Mistral OCR 4 handles 170 languages and runs 4x faster than rivals, especially on low-resource scripts
• ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 generates 30-second 4K videos from a prompt plus up to 50 reference images, clips, or audio files
• Airbyte Agents cuts tool calls by 40%, token use by 80%, and multi-source query costs by 90% by indexing business data instead of querying APIs live
• OpenAI's new Bidirectional Voice Mode can hold real-time back-and-forth conversations and even sing or beatbox within copyright limits