Soft Skills Still Required, Snapchat's AI Lenses, and DeepSeek and Malware

Tools and industry news from the world of artificial intelligence.

Morning y’all!

It’s Friday and it’s almost time for the weekend.

• Beyond the 70% of coding; soft skills.

• Alibaba fights Deepseek.

• Firefly and a lunar touchdown.

• What GenZ wants from their jobs.

• New token updates to Anthropic.

• Character motion vision diffusion model.

• Open agentic tool called Agent-S.

• Snapchat and AI-powered lenses.

• Symantec has thoughts on AI-powered security issues.

• Deepseek can be persuaded to create malware?

• Talk to your favorite apps with a prompt tool.

• Agentic and human experience need to be balanced.

• A bear case of AI progress.

• Manus, tested by MIT.

• Apple AI pivot potential.

• OpenAI asks Whitehouse to chill.

• Perplexity MCP.

• Notes on Gemma 3.

And that’s it friends! Have a great day!

※\(^o^)/※

— Summer