AI leaders call for tougher protections against AI-aided bioweapons
Ethics & Regulation

AI leaders call for tougher protections against AI-aided bioweapons

AI industry leaders including Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Mustafa Suleyman have signed an open letter urging US...

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How Endava is redesigning software delivery around AI agents

Endava is leveraging AI agents, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Codex to transform its software delivery processes and automate...

OpenAI Blog
Scout from M’Soft is the agentic Autopilot that works across M365
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Scout from M’Soft is the agentic Autopilot that works across M365

Microsoft has announced wider testing of its new Autopilot feature, a new category of autonomous agents that can work...

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Exclusive: Scotch Raises $20M Series A To Disrupt Legacy Liquor Retail Tech With AI
Startups & Funding

Exclusive: Scotch Raises $20M Series A To Disrupt Legacy Liquor Retail Tech With AI

Scotch, a Denver-based AI-native operating system for liquor store owners, has raised $20M in Series A funding. The...

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Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’
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Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’

Flourish, a neuroscience-focused AI company backed by Jeff Bezos, has secured $500 million in funding at a reported...

Wired AI
AI can now coach amateur virologists, and top tech leaders want Congress to act on DNA security
Ethics & Regulation

AI can now coach amateur virologists, and top tech leaders want Congress to act on DNA security

Tech leaders including Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are calling for Congress to mandate DNA synthesis screening to...

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Amazon brings AI shopping assistant to retailers with Kate Spade
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Amazon brings AI shopping assistant to retailers with Kate Spade

Amazon is launching an Agentic Shopping Assistant built on AWS that enables retailers to deploy customized AI shopping...

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Amazon develops a warehouse robot that workers can speak to
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Amazon develops a warehouse robot that workers can speak to

Amazon has unveiled an upgraded version of its Proteus warehouse robot that can now understand natural language...

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Dreaming: Better memory for a more helpful ChatGPT

ChatGPT has introduced a new memory system that allows it to retain user preferences and maintain context across...

OpenAI Blog
Miso Labs Releases MisoTTS: An 8B Emotive Text-to-Speech Model with Open Weights
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Miso Labs Releases MisoTTS: An 8B Emotive Text-to-Speech Model with Open Weights

Miso Labs has released MisoTTS, an open-weights 8 billion parameter text-to-speech model that uses residual vector...

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xAI updates Grok Imagine to 1.5 with image-to-video generation at 720p resolution
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xAI updates Grok Imagine to 1.5 with image-to-video generation at 720p resolution

xAI has released Grok Imagine Video 1.5, an image-to-video generation model that converts still images into cinematic...

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Meet OpenJarvis: A Local-First Framework for On-Device Personal AI Agents with Tools, Memory, and Learning
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Meet OpenJarvis: A Local-First Framework for On-Device Personal AI Agents with Tools, Memory, and Learning

Stanford researchers released OpenJarvis, an open-source framework that enables personal AI agents to run entirely...

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OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Letter to Prevent AI-Developed Biological Weapons
Ethics & Regulation

OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Letter to Prevent AI-Developed Biological Weapons

OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI leaders have signed a letter to lawmakers urging improved tracking of synthetic DNA...

Wired AI
Healthcare AI

Biodefense in the Intelligence Age

The article discusses an action plan for leveraging AI technology to enhance biological resilience and biodefense...

OpenAI Blog
Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says
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Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says

Lovable has signed an expanded multiyear deal with Google Cloud that includes a 5x expansion of its footprint on the...

TechCrunch Startups
Teaching AI agents to ask better questions by playing “Battleship”
AI Agents

Teaching AI agents to ask better questions by playing “Battleship”

MIT researchers developed a method to train AI agents to ask better questions by using the classic game Battleship as a...

MIT News AI
Google Deepmind's Gemma 4 12B squeezes multimodal AI onto a laptop with just 16 GB of RAM
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Google Deepmind's Gemma 4 12B squeezes multimodal AI onto a laptop with just 16 GB of RAM

Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 12B, an open-source multimodal AI model that processes text, images, and audio...

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Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal
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Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal

Alphabet completed a record-breaking $85 billion stock sale, signaling strong investor confidence in AI-related...

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Google lets sites opt out of AI search results, knowing most have nowhere else to go
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Google lets sites opt out of AI search results, knowing most have nowhere else to go

Google has introduced an opt-out toggle in Search Console allowing website operators to exclude their content from AI...

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