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Where AI is actually being used: products, industries, and the work it changes.
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Intel agrees to buy Mobileye for $15.3bn
Intel agreed to acquire Jerusalem-based Mobileye for $63.54 a share in cash, valuing it at about $15.3bn, with the combined self-driving unit…
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A new benchmark checks whether the database changed, not whether the agent said it did
Microsoft and Hugging Face have released ThinkingBox, which finds that most agent runs failing an executable database check still finish cleanly and…
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OpenAI puts ads inside ChatGPT image generation
OpenAI will start testing a visual ad format inside ChatGPT’s image generation later this month in the US, and says the ads…
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Google pauses one part of its open-source bug bounty, not all of it
Google has temporarily stopped taking product vulnerability reports for its open-source bug bounty, blaming a rise in automated submissions, though supply chain…
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Brussels names ten finalists for its Apply AI Startup Award
The European Commission has published the ten-company shortlist for its Apply AI Startup Award, with three winners to be picked after a…
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OpenAI doubles its backing for AI engineers in US local newsrooms
OpenAI is putting $5 million plus up to $5 million in credits into the Lenfest Institute’s fellowship that embeds AI engineers in…
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Meta launches an enterprise AI business and hires MongoDB’s former CEO to run it
Meta has launched Meta Enterprise Platform to sell its Muse models and agents to businesses, and named former MongoDB chief executive CJ…
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Claude Code Mods: Anthropic lets developers rewrite how its coding agent behaves
Anthropic’s new Mods let developers write small TypeScript functions that rewrite prompts, block or retry tool calls, decide permissions and change the…
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Anthropic bets $100m that people, not models, are holding back enterprise AI
Anthropic’s new Claude Frontier Academy will spend $100 million training 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027, an argument that…
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Google launches Gemini 4 Argon, cyber defenders first in line
Google’s new frontier model reaches trusted cyber defenders and a US government pre-release process before it reaches developers.