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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…

South-East Asia builds sovereign AI on NVIDIA’s open Nemotron models

Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand are fine-tuning NVIDIA’s open weights for local languages rather than training from scratch.

Google puts generated classroom simulations in front of teachers

Google Research has released a library of more than 30 AI-generated STEM simulations for teachers, backed so far by a study of…

Waymo sets 2028 for driverless rides in Singapore

Waymo says its fully autonomous ride-hailing service will open to riders in Singapore in 2028, after a year of manual driving to…

Anthropic will relax Claude’s biology safeguards for verified labs

Verified life science teams will get access to Claude models with looser limits on biology work, monitored against a declared use case…

OpenAI launches Astra for Law, with its own benchmark numbers

OpenAI’s new legal configuration of GPT-6 Astra passed 54.0% of a research benchmark it ran itself, against 38.7% for the same model…

A children’s hospital moves cardiac device simulation from overnight to near real time

CHOP says open-source cardiac simulation now runs fast enough for routine planning, though the timings come from a vendor write-up and no…

Perplexity brings its local-first Portable Computer to Windows

Perplexity’s on-device agent now runs on Windows, but it needs an RTX GPU with at least 24GB of, a floor well above…

Manchester researchers forecast UK air pollution with Nvidia Earth-2 models

A University of Manchester team has produced UK-wide air quality forecasts at two-to-three-square-kilometre resolution, training the model in about two days on…

Apple unveils Siri with the iPhone 4S

Apple announces the iPhone 4S with Siri, a built-in voice-controlled assistant.