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This article provides a comprehensive digest of recent AI developments, starting with Andrew Ng's new 'Agentic AI' course, which highlights critical design patterns and best practices for building effective, evaluable AI agents. It then details Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, showcasing its advanced performance in coding and reasoning, and an enhanced Claude Code SDK designed to boost workplace productivity and address business AI ROI concerns. The article also covers OpenAI and Meta's strategic diversification into consumer-facing AI products, including social video apps (Sora 2, Vibes), personalized briefings (ChatGPT Pulse), and in-chat shopping (Instant Checkout), signaling a move towards broader engagement and new revenue models. Alibaba's expanded Qwen3 family is introduced, featuring the large Qwen3-Max and powerful open-weights multimodal models (Qwen3-VL, Qwen3-Omni) that excel in understanding various media, making advanced agentic applications more accessible to developers. Finally, Sakana AI's innovative Text-to-LoRA research is presented, offering a streamlined, cost-effective method for generating task-specific LoRA adapters from natural language descriptions, enhancing model adaptability for evolving requirements.