Anthropic hands Agent Skills to the Linux Foundation 🧩, OpenAI nears $30B at $1.25T 💰, Canva ships its own image model 🎨

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Anthropic is giving the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation, and OpenAI is close to raising up to $30B at a lower valuation than it first pitched.

Anthropic donates Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation · simonwillison.net
The open standard for giving agents specialized skills now sits with the AAIF under the Linux Foundation, where MCP went in 2025, and Anthropic says 70+ platforms have integrated it.

OpenAI nears an up to $30B round at a $1.25T valuation · cnbc.com
Sources say investors from the UAE and Coatue lead the round, a bridge ahead of an IPO, and the FT reports the target is down from the $1.4T OpenAI pitched earlier this month.

OpenAI launches the Decisions API · openai.com
OpenAI's answer to Jev is now widely available, pitched as fast, focused, low-cost decisions you can build into any app.

Canva releases Canva Craft, its first image model · theverge.com
It plans a design before it generates the image and goes up against models from OpenAI, Microsoft and Google. Every Canva user gets it.

Anthropic and Theorem use Claude to formally prove code is secure · anthropic.com
Claude proved security properties at the assembly level across more than 100 real-world open-source libraries.

1Password lets AI agents log in for you without seeing your password · techcrunch.com
Agents can sign in to your personal accounts while the credentials stay hidden from them.

Microsoft says its AI beats generalist doctors on hard cases · techcrunch.com
A study in Science backs the claim, though most of the gain seems to come from the underlying AI models rather than Microsoft's own system.

DeepSeek and MiniMax win approval to deploy AI models overseas · bloomberg.com
Chinese state media says both registered under China's proposed export controls and can open-source and deploy their models abroad.

AI stock fears push global credit spreads to a 17-month high · bloomberg.com
Bond markets show their most risk-off mood in more than a year as the AI selloff and geopolitical tension send investors looking for safety.

CopilotKit/OpenDots · New this month · 5,909★
Always-on AI coworkers that move between text, calls and Slack.

storytold/wordcraft · New this month · 15,628★
An open-source, clean-room rebuild of Microsoft Word written in pure Rust.

KnifeLemon/Filee · New this month · 10,599★
A free, open-source file converter that handles 255 formats offline by drag and drop, from PDFs and Office files to video, audio and e-books, with no upload and no Office needed.

kaankiziltug/logo-design-skill · New this month · 4,213★
A logo-design skill for Claude, Gemini CLI, Codex and other agents that covers principles, process, SVG craft and testing, with a reference library of 1,400+ logos.

luongnv89/claude-howto · +177★ today
A visual guide to Claude Code built on examples, from the basics to advanced agents, with templates you can copy and paste.

omnara-ai/omnara · Show HN · 111 points
Launched on Show HN today: an open-source managed agent platform you can self-host instead of Claude Managed Agents or OpenAI's Agents API.

ui-humanizer · by gabrielgreco1
New: strips the AI look out of sites, landing pages, apps, dashboards, docs and slides built with HTML/CSS, Tailwind, React or shadcn.

openscreen-demo · by getopenscreen
Makes a polished demo video of an app or feature with OpenScreen's MCP tools, from storyboard to export, then attaches it to a pull request or drafts a post on X.

realtime · by elevenlabs
Sets up an ElevenAgents voice agent on ElevenLabs' low-latency Realtime models, or switches an existing agent over to them.

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