Applications
Where AI is actually being used: products, industries, and the work it changes.
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Biohub, US agencies and three AI labs put $1.8 billion behind open biology data
Biohub, the US Department of Energy, NIH, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs and Meta have committed $1.8 billion to AI-ready biological data, though…
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A Beijing team formalises the Poincaré conjecture in Lean, and publishes the bill
Researchers at Peking University and four other Chinese institutions say they machine-checked the Poincaré conjecture in Lean 4 in a little over…
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Microsoft ships operating system containment for AI agents
Microsoft Execution Containers is now generally available, moving the job of limiting what an AI agent can touch out of the agent…
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OpenAI publishes its own numbers on how teenagers use ChatGPT
OpenAI has released usage figures for ChatGPT for Teens and announced a College Planner for American high-school students, with every number self-reported.
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Anthropic cuts small-model pricing by 90% with Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens on prompts up to 100,000 tokens, which Anthropic says is 90% below Haiku…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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DeepL launches its neural machine translator in Cologne
Cologne-based DeepL, which grew out of Linguee, launched DeepL Translator, a free online neural machine translation service.
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India launches Bhashini, its language AI platform
Prime Minister Modi launched Digital India Bhashini at Digital India Week 2022 in Gandhinagar, a platform for AI-based translation and voice access…