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Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Read original ↗Three Lincoln Laboratory technologies receive 2026 R&D 100 Awards
A secure operating system, a quantum microsystem platform, and a 5G interference-canceling algorithm are named among the year's most significant innovations.
Read original ↗New research could lead to faster, trustworthy AI models for climate prediction
MIT scientists developed a training method to generate models that simulate the effects of human activities on climate much more quickly than other approaches.
Read original ↗Three Lincoln Laboratory technologies receive 2026 R&D 100 Awards
A secure operating system, a quantum microsystem platform, and a 5G interference-canceling algorithm are named among the year's most significant innovations.
How Amplitude ships product improvements in 1–2 days with OpenAI
Built primarily on OpenAI models, Amplitude’s proactive product agent, Wave, identifies what to build, helps teams ship changes with coding agents, and measures the impact.
Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen outscores the bigger Argon just four weeks after its launch
Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen replaces the Flash series, but benchmarks suggest it also makes the pricier Argon obsolete. On the independent Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Hydrogen nearly matches Claude Sonnet 5.5 for…
No, AI agents did not discover a previously unknown Maya site
Armed with a team of AI agents, Google researcher Pietro Miotti claimed earlier this week to have discovered a potentially unmapped Maya site in Mexico. There was just one problem: The site…
Google’s latest Search upgrade promises better answers to your most complicated questions
Powered by Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Google's AI Mode is getting better at understanding complex queries, surfacing relevant links, and delivering richer visual responses.
Nectar launches an AI agent to automate creator discovery and outreach for brands
Nectar's new AI agent automates influencer marketing, helping brands discover creators, manage outreach and partnerships, and track campaign results.
LLMON: An LLM-Native Markup Language, now in Granite 4.1 3B and 8B
Jensen Huang’s exit puts Nvidia’s support for open source in question
Jensen Huang’s resignation raises questions about Nvidia’s commitment to open source AI, including its Hugging Face acquisition, open-weight models, and advocacy against restrictions, as the company navigates a leadership transition.
Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Google Search gets a major upgrade with Gemini 4 Hydrogen
We are bringing Gemini 4 Hydrogen to Google Search globally to provide you with more helpful, visual, and intuitive responses.
The Jensen Huang scandal is hardly over
I was certain, until the story of Jensen Huang's second affair hit, that Huang was bulletproof. After all, why wouldn't he be? He's placed himself indispensably at the center of the AI…
Hugging Face CEO vows to keep fighting for open source AI after Jensen Huang’s exit
Hugging Face's CEO pledged to keep fighting for open source AI after Huang's exit, raising questions about Nvidia's $12.9 billion acquisition.
United Airlines blocks AI agents from booking flights, citing cybersecurity risks
The airline said it will not allow customers to use AI agents to book flights and manage reservations.
SoftBank’s billion-dollar loss may have put a cap on AI’s natural gas ambitions
SoftBank lost over $3 billion preordering natural gas turbines to power AI data centers. Here's what the loss means to power markets.
More game developers are starting to use generative AI
More video game developers are using generative AI tools in their jobs compared to last year, according to the GDC Festival of Gaming's latest annual industry survey. Forty percent of developers surveyed…
AI chatbots are recommending fake retail websites, study finds
Shoppers using AI chatbots to research products or find places to buy items could be directed to imposters and other risky websites, a new study found. The study conducted by IP protection…
Phota Labs uses AI to turn everyday photos into professional-looking shots
Rather than giving consumers yet another photo-editing tool, Phota Labs aims to use advances in AI to automate the editing process so it’s easier for anyone to turn everyday moments into better…
OpenAI’s data suggests that frontier models are hiding their thoughts because developers optimize for capability and compute
OpenAI's safety team systematically investigated why the chains of thought in frontier models like GPT-6 Astra are increasingly evading oversight. Four training steps drive the erosion, including architecture choices and reinforcement learning.…
Five ways Jensen Huang’s ouster from Nvidia could damage the AI industry
Nvidia's ousted CEO Jensen Huang's downfall isn’t just your run-of-the-mill salacious billionaire sex scandal. He was using his influence to push the AI industry in some very specific ways.
Norwest pushes deeper into AI with new $4B fund
This is the investment firm's largest fund to date.
Cyberattack on Fireworks AI allowed hackers to access Notion customers’ chat transcripts
This is Fireworks' second data breach in as many months.
The unfolding Jensen Huang scandal: a timeline
Jensen Huang has resigned from Nvidia following an affair, which could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.
ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live uses conversational context to stop voice agents from cutting off callers mid-sentence
ElevenLabs has released Scribe v3 and Scribe v3 Live, two new speech recognition models designed to transcribe accurately through background noise and crosstalk. Benchmarks from Artificial Analysis confirm that Scribe v3 narrowly…
Google Deepmind shifts genomics AI from bulk tissue predictions to single cell type resolution with AlphaGenome 2
Google Deepmind has unveiled AlphaGenome 2, an AI model that analyzes genetic variants for individual cell types rather than across bulk tissue. Trained on more than 107 million cell profiles, it identifies…
Australia's proposed AI safety bill would force frontier model makers to open up to independent testing
Australia's government, led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, wants to enshrine mandatory safety rules for frontier AI companies in law for the first time. A new regulator would enforce independent model audits…
Holiday Extras is rethinking what it can build with Codex
With Codex, Holiday Extras is turning customer expertise into better apps, higher booking conversion and new possibilities for growth.
New research could lead to faster, trustworthy AI models for climate prediction
MIT scientists developed a training method to generate models that simulate the effects of human activities on climate much more quickly than other approaches.
Gilbert + Tobin rethinks the business of law with AI
A conversation with Sam Nickless, Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Gilbert + Tobin.
Supporting research on AI and children’s safety
OpenAI commits $2 million to research on AI and children’s safety. The work supports shared tools to measure risks and opportunities for young people.
The Definitive Fine-Tuning Guide for 3D Generation Models
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 up front, 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.
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