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Google says its private cloud AI will start remembering you
Private AI Compute drops its stateless design for encrypted, with no product, no date and an unnamed audit firm.
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ChatGPT Ads reaches seven more Asian markets
ChatGPT Ads lands in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Taiwan, taking the product past 60 countries.
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OpenAI opens its Daybreak cyber programme to Ukraine
Ukraine’s government gets access to OpenAI’s gated Daybreak security programme, with no stated duration, cost or oversight terms.
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Altman asks the UN Security Council for common frontier AI standards
Altman told the Security Council that countries need shared standards for measuring, with no treaty, body or timeline attached.
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Claude agents flag an enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Anthropic says ~950 Claude agents spent 21 hours finding a CRISPR-like repeat array in a phage. What the system does is still unknown.
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A faster checkpoint for NVIDIA’s surgical video model
NVIDIA has added a distilled checkpoint to its open-weights surgical video model, claiming a near thirteenfold speed-up, with the card explicit that it is…
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NVIDIA documents its open speech-to-speech model, weak spots included
The technical report for NVIDIA’s open full-duplex speech model reports strong interruption handling alongside noticeably weaker tool-calling accuracy.
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Fifty models, 258 cognitive experiments, and a gap that is not closing fast
A new framework re-runs 258 cognitive science experiments on 50 language models and finds their agreement with human answers well short of how well…
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Agents can copy how an app looks. Finishing it is another matter
A new benchmark gives the leading model 58.1% overall but only 2.8% of tasks passing every test, which says something about how agent scores…
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Qwen’s new image model is open-weight, not open-licensed
Alibaba’s Qwen team has published a 7B image generation and editing model with native transparency, but the weights carry a research licence rather than…