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Gilbert + Tobin rethinks the business of law with AI

A conversation with Sam Nickless, Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Gilbert + Tobin.

United won’t let your AI agent book your flight

United says it won't let personal AI assistants book tickets on the airline, citing both privacy and regulatory concerns. The company says it hasn't yet seen many people try to use AI…

Why the data center you dread might never even be built

The data center boom is running into serious real-world obstacles, from widespread local opposition and permitting delays to a scramble for electricity. Before those challenges even come into play, though, there’s a more…

Google joins the decision-model wave with Gemini Decision 1, scoring 1,000 questions in a single pass

Google Deepmind's new Gemini Decisions API evaluates up to 1,000 closed-ended questions in a single pass across text, images, audio, and video. Gemini Decision 1 returns results in 150 to 250 milliseconds…

How backlash and red tape continue to slow data centers post-Blue Wave

The data center boom is running into serious real-world obstacles, from widespread local opposition and permitting delays to a scramble for electricity. Before those challenges even come into play, though, there’s a more…

CoreWeave turns to customer prepayments, shorter contracts to fund AI growth

CoreWeave is increasingly asking customers to pay upfront, borrowing against specific contracts, and even looking to short-term deals that could lead to higher prices, according to the company’s third-quarter earnings.

US corporate AI spending hits a new high in October, but growth slows to 1.65 percent

According to the Ramp AI Index, US corporate AI spending rose just 1.65 percent in October 2026. One percent of companies still drive 80 percent of revenue for OpenAI and Anthropic. Customer…

With $720M round, Britain’s Fractile gets a leg up in the race for AI chips

Fractile has now become one of the top-funded players in the race for purpose-built AI chips.

Google Deepmind's AlphaProof Code verified Signal's cryptographic core in four weeks instead of years

Google Deepmind's AlphaProof Code mathematically verified Signal's cryptographic core code in four weeks, a process that typically takes years. AI agents powered by Gemini Carbon wrote more than six million lines of…

Gemini Decisions API: Fast, calibrated multimodal decisions

Meet the Gemini Decisions API, powered by our state-of-the-art model Gemini Decision for fast, calibrated multimodal decisions.

OpenAI’s quarterly revenue reportedly crosses $10B for the first time

Sales of $10 billion represents an almost 50% jump from revenue of $6.7 billion the company recorded in the second quarter.

Google’s Tabletop AI experiment lets you build custom collaboration apps

Google has cooked up a new experimental AI tool called Tabletop that generates customized collaborative hubs to help you coordinate with family, and friends. The Tabletop platform shares some visual similarities with…

Helsing built an AI system that prepares targets for weapons systems and says every decision will carry a human name

Helsing has unveiled Clarity, an AI platform that uses agents to distill sensor data into target recommendations for weapons systems, all under human oversight and European control. But experience from the Iran…

AlphaGenome 2: Deciphering how cells read DNA to better understand disease

Predicting how DNA sequences and their variations impact specific human cell types and disease.

Google’s AlphaGenome 2 zooms in on the cellular roots of disease

Researchers at Google DeepMind have unveiled a new AI model designed to unravel how changes in our DNA affect different cells, giving scientists a more detailed view of a notoriously difficult problem…

Databricks’ new AI agent tells CEO Ali Ghodsi the unvarnished truth

With Databricks at 12,000 employees, AI Ghodsi is the first to admit that he can't know everyone and that they are unlikely to confess the things that go wrong to him. But…

Anthropic says AI is eroding Nvidia's CUDA lead, cutting an AMD chip switch from months to three days

Anthropic claims it used AI itself to breach Nvidia's CUDA moat. The company's in-house model Mythos reportedly ported Claude to AMD GPUs in just three days, with almost no human intervention. Anthropic…

Adobe’s AI experiments let you walk around in photos and interview your characters

Some of the most impressive tech that Adobe showcases at its annual Max conference each year is the experimental features it's developing, and the latest of those tools are being announced today:…

Plurai wants to help AI agents work better using the same approach that helped get self-driving cars to roads

Like the end-to-end models trained to drive cars, AI agents are probabilistic systems operating in unpredictable environments.

US data brokers are selling half a billion dollars in RL training environments to Chinese AI labs

US data brokers like Mercor, Surge AI, and AfterQuery are selling roughly half a billion dollars' worth of AI training data to Chinese labs, according to a ChinaTalk investigation. That includes the…

Enterprise sales push OpenAI's quarterly revenue to $10 billion, though it still trails Anthropic

OpenAI grew its quarterly revenue 50 percent to $10 billion but is still burning more cash than it brings in. Adjusted operating losses climbed to $10.9 billion, while rival Anthropic operates far…

UK regulator threatens universities with sanctions unless they adopt AI-proof exam formats

England's higher education regulator, the Office for Students, says AI has made it "nearly impossible" to fairly assess student coursework. An investigation found that students are having ChatGPT write entire papers undetected,…

ChatGPT Plus for veterans and servicemembers

More than 20,000 veterans and transitioning service members have claimed a free year of ChatGPT Plus. See how they use it to prepare for civilian careers.

BotPsy: On-Device Personal Assistant with a Sub-Billion-Parameter Agentic Language Model

Obscured Wildfire Flame Detection by Spatio-temporal Analysis of Smoke Patterns Using Frame-wise Transformers

arXiv:2611.14074v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we propose a new paradigm in wildfire management for detecting both visible and obscured fire using Deep Learning (DL). The essence of our method…

AI Isn't Getting Dumber, We're Getting Pickier: Rising Standards in Human Evaluation of Large Language Models

arXiv:2611.14333v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Users often complain that AI assistants such as ChatGPT are getting worse. Some versions do change, but human evaluation leaves a second possibility untested: the people judging…

DisasterAgent: An Evidence-Driven Agent for Verifiable Disaster Report Generation From Remote Sensing Imagery

arXiv:2611.13776v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Remote sensing disaster assessment is moving from simple damage classification toward comprehensive report-level analysis. In this setting, responders need not only damage descriptions but also verifiable evidence…

The Case for AI-Enabled Gate Monitoring as Farm Security in the UK: A PRISMA-Guided Review of the Evidence on Rural Crime, Livestock Predation and Farm Access

arXiv:2611.13933v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Farm security in the UK rests on thinner evidence than its cost suggests. We ran a PRISMA guided review: twelve searches of Web of Science and Scopus…

AI Governance Should Prioritize Control and Knowledge Boundaries Over Limiting Intelligence

arXiv:2611.12941v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid proliferation of autonomously acting AI agents makes the governance of agentic systems urgent. We propose the competence circuit, summarized as IKC + KC + C,…

Graph Visualizations in Prompts for Knowledge Graph Question Answering

arXiv:2611.12938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study when and how multimodal input improves knowledge graph question answering (KGQA) in large vision--language models. Using a controlled evaluation over 1,500 WebQSP and CWQ questions…

Tracing Psychometric Inference in Large Language Models

arXiv:2611.12937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Do large language models represent psychological constructs internally, or do they only generate outputs that resemble psychometric structure? We address this question using a cross-persona paradigm across…

LandslideFM: A Foundation Model Towards Unified Landslide Perception and Understanding

arXiv:2611.12936v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intelligent landslide detection is essential for disaster prevention. However, existing models primarily focus on isolated visual tasks, require extensive labeled data, and lack deep analytical and scene-understanding…

TACT: Mitigating Overthinking and Overacting in Coding Agents via Activation Steering

arXiv:2605.05980v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: When language model agents tackle complex software engineering tasks, they often degrade over long trajectories, which we define as *agent drift*. We focus on two recurring failure…

SetPrint: Black-Box LLM Fingerprinting via Setwise Correspondence of Response Changes

arXiv:2611.12950v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Black-box LLM fingerprinting aims to determine whether a target model was derived from a source model when only the output responses to input queries are observable. One…

JioStar’s chief architect on AI discovery at 500M-user scale

JioStar’s Vijay Seshadri explains AI discovery at 500M-user scale. Read his lessons on evals, guardrails, and taking AI into production.

Token Pooling-Aware Training for Multi-Vector Embedding Models

OpenAI acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder

OpenAI has not yet said what its plans are for the future of travel. But Sonder founder Francis Davidson is a well-known figure in the travel industry.

OpenAI, Anthropic face new oversight as New York’s AI safety law takes effect

New York is preparing to enforce its sweeping AI safety law, requiring major developers like OpenAI and Anthropic to register, disclose safety practices, and report critical incidents or face fines.

OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a business directory with AI agents that handle customer questions

OpenAI is opening up ChatGPT as a business platform: through a new Business Hub, companies can claim their profile, add product data, and track how users interact with them. "Business Agents" let…

All 7 Anthropic founders will each cash out about $250M in IPO

Each of the seven co-founders plans to sell exactly the same number of shares in the IPO, which would bring each of them about $250 million in cash at the midpoint of…

Anthropic turns Claude into a full workspace with Plugins, spreadsheets, whiteboards, and soon Meeting notes

Anthropic is expanding Claude with Sheets, Whiteboards, and Interactive Connectors, letting partners like Adobe and Atlassian embed their apps directly inside Claude. Anthropic says Claude Meetings, which can join calls and take…

The US is winning the AI race. Jensen Huang could have blown it

As espionage targets go, Jensen Huang is perhaps one of the least surprising on Earth. The Nvidia CEO runs one of the world's most valuable companies, controls the in-demand technology fueling the…

PSI is trying to make a business out of AI-driven scientific discovery

PSI used an unreleased Anthropic model to answer a fundamental question about quantum computing that scientists have pursued for nearly two decades.

Gemini Intelligence: New features, on more devices

Gemini Intelligence is rolling out to more devices. See how expanded capabilities across these devices help you do more.

OpenAI rolls out new business profiles, making ChatGPT just a little bit more like Google

OpenAI is looking to make ChatGPT a more robust consumer discovery engine, and a host of new features seek to empower businesses to help it do that.

Nvidia's model GR00T 2 watches humans on video, then imagines itself as the robot

Nvidia's new AI model GR00T 2 is designed to teach robots new tasks without laborious teleoperation. Instead, the system transfers human hand movements from videos to robotic arms, trained on about 400,000…

Gemini 4 Carbon arrives just in time to feel like yesterday's news in the fastest model cycle yet

Google is making Gemini 4 Carbon generally available after a two-week testing phase. The model ranks first in several benchmarks, in some cases ahead of Anthropic's new Fable 5.2, at less than…

ChatGPT is getting verified AI ‘Business Agents’

ChatGPT is going to let you chat with verified "Business Agents" that represent a brand to help you with things like comparison shopping. The feature, available first to "eligible" e-commerce and online…

The indie game community is in disarray over AI and Big Walk

Some Independent Games Festival (IGF) jurors published a statement yesterday saying they would not vote for games that use generative AI in "any capacity." Soon after, the developer of indie hit Big…

Anthropic has its own AI-powered office suite now

For years, Anthropic has been known for its focus on enterprise and coding tools that attract high-flying corporate clients, inspiring competing frontier labs - like OpenAI, SpaceXSI, and Meta - to copy…

Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks

As participants talk, Claude can draft the plan being discussed, map out a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and access connected work apps to retrieve information, such…

Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2.5 scores 96 percent sorting metal parts in a Mercedes-Benz assembly pilot

Google Deepmind introduced Gemini Robotics 2.5, a new control model for robots, and tested it with Apptronik on active Mercedes-Benz production lines in Hungary and Germany. The humanoid robot Apollo 2 sorted…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy: a timeline

The affair could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.

eBay appears to have shut the door on third-party AI agents

eBay appears to have blocked AI agents, including Meta's Muse, from browsing on the platform - the latest speed bump in the AI agent race. A reader tells The Verge that for…

Gemini 4 Carbon is now available

Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon with agent ‘swarm’ feature

Google is rolling out its latest AI model, Gemini 4 Carbon, to the general public after releasing it to a select group of "cybersecurity defenders" two weeks ago. Google claims Carbon is…

Google broadens its AI hardware portfolio with two new specialized chips

Google's new tensor processing units (TPUs) broaden its chip portfolio to more use cases: confidential model training and more memory capacity.

Meta’s AI agent Muse lands on Apple Watch and Android Wear OS

Users can now interact with Meta’s AI assistant through voice calls, text messages, or dictation on their Apple Watch.

Anthropic's Fable 5.2 completes 41 percent of real freelance jobs, up from 2.5 percent a year ago

Anthropic's Fable 5.2 completes 41.3 percent of real freelance jobs at professional quality on the Remote Labor Index, more than double the next-best systems Opus 5.5 and GPT 6 Astra. A year…

Anthropic targets $1.4 trillion IPO

Anthropic confirmed on Tuesday that its IPO could be one of the biggest ever, even while falling short of previous expectations. Its IPO price is expected to be between $70.00 and $78.00…

Adobe brings AI agents and new creative tools to Photoshop, Premiere, and Firefly

Adobe is taking on Figma with a new prototype builder tool in Firefly.

Anthropic sets IPO price range of $70 to $78 per share to reach an implied valuation of $1.404 trillion

The company could end up being worth a hefty $1.404 trillion if its shares list at the top of the price range, on a fully diluted basis.

We’re bringing Adobe’s creative and productivity tools closer to your everyday Google apps.

Google and Adobe are integrating creative and productivity tools. Edit PDFs in Drive and use Adobe AI in Gemini. See what’s new in this partnership.

Spotify’s AI DJ gets new voices, personalities, and an option for less chatter

Spotify Premium users can now customize their AI DJ with new voices with different personalities, or turn off the commentary between songs.

Photoshop, Lightroom, and Premiere are making it easier to remove things

Adobe is expanding its Creative Cloud apps and Firefly AI platform with new capabilities that aim to make design and editing projects faster and less complicated. Some of the announcements from Adobe's…

Adobe is going all in on agentic AI

Adobe is committing itself to the notion that chatbots and AI agents could be your next design assistant, or even automate creative workflows and repetitive tasks on your behalf. Some of the…

After challenging Google’s Android with Cyanogen, its co-founder takes aim at Windows for AI era

Kora is set to launch as a free-to-use alternative to Windows, targeting users who rely heavily on AI models and agents.

Eight countries and top AI labs agree to shutdown mechanisms in new Paris declaration

Eight countries along with representatives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Mistral AI have signed the "Paris Call for AI Safety and Security" at Emmanuel Macron's initiative. The companies commit to shutdown mechanisms,…

Ring, known for its doorbell cameras, launches a home security drone and an enterprise security robot

Amazon-owned Ring is pushing into robotics with the launch of a home security drone and a rolling robot designed to patrol and protect businesses.

Hands-on with Ring’s new AI drone camera for your home

Ring is finally shipping a flying indoor drone camera. For real this time. The Ring Drone Cam will arrive on January 27th, 2027, for $249.99, Ring founder Jamie Siminoff said at a…

Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare.

Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare to unify clinical data and automate workflows. Reduce administrative burnout. See how it works.

Cyberattacks threaten to make open source AI a little less open, Hugging Face exec warns 

Hugging Face executive Irene Solaiman warns that growing cyberattacks on open AI platforms could force tighter security restrictions, threatening the accessibility that makes open source communities valuable to developers worldwide.