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Lancet study: Google’s AMIE chatbot interviewed real urgent-care patients with no safety stops
In a small supervised study in Boston, Google’s diagnostic chatbot talked with real patients before their visits.
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USA Today Co sues OpenAI for more than $250m over articles from 19 newspapers
USA Today Co and 13 of its newspapers sued OpenAI in New York, alleging hundreds of thousands of articles were copied for training.
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Atlassian widens its OpenAI deal, with agents to be assigned work in Jira
Atlassian and OpenAI have expanded a partnership running since 2023, and say they are exploring Jira integrations that would let teams assign work to…
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Google releases EmbeddingGemma 2 under Apache 2.0, sized to run on a phone
Google has published EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740 million parameter multimodal embedding model under a permissive licence, which it says runs in a few hundred…
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Anthropic opens offensive cyber capabilities to vetted defenders, and publishes the gap between tiers
Anthropic has merged two schemes into a three-tier Cyber Verification Program, and published how differently its models behave for a defender and for an…
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OpenAI publishes the maths its internal model produced, with machine-checkable proofs
OpenAI has put a set of mathematical results from an internal frontier model into a public repository with Lean formalisations, and says the average…
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Mistral launches Large 4, and says the weights follow at the end of the month
Mistral has released Large 4, a trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model trained on 3,800 Nvidia GPUs in European datacentres, with the open weights promised for the…
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Singapore’s central bank sets AI risk rules for financial firms, effective October 2027
MAS issued AI risk management guidelines for financial institutions, taking effect in October 2027 with a further phase in 2028.
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Korean lawmaker answers a Suneung exam question with AI glasses in front of officials
During a parliamentary audit, a lawmaker used AI smart glasses to solve a college entrance exam question; the ministry is preparing countermeasures.
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Maryland school district bans student AI use in every grade, weeks after a Gemini rollout
Frederick County’s school board voted 6-1 to ban student AI use from pre-K to 12th grade, soon after piloting Google Gemini.