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Tencent's Gander Multitasks: Talks While Processing Images, Text
Most voice assistants still work like a phone call with a hold button. You talk, the assistant processes, then it talks back. Tencent wants to break that pattern with a research model called Gander,…
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Runway and Google DeepMind Pursue Real-Time, Interactive AI Video Generation
Runway published research this week outlining plans to make AI video generation happen in real time, more...
AI Chess Tutor Learns Faster by Practicing on Simulated Students
Researchers at Microsoft and the University of Illinois have built a system that gives AI tutors something...
Anthropic Delays IPO After OpenAI Despite Growing Enterprise Revenue
Anthropic's IPO timeline just slipped a month, and the excuse being offered doesn't hold together well.
Alibaba's 7B-Parameter Qwen-Image-2.1 Edits Transparent Layers, Handles 10 Reference Images
06 Virginia Governor Signs Executive Order on Data Centers, AI
07 OpenClaw 2026.9.5 Adds Atomic Updates, Plugin Hot Reload, and GPT Live Expansion
08 TypeSafe's Jev AI Model Claims 194x Speed, 445x Cost Reduction Over Text Models
09 Google Hid Gemini AI Hacks After System Breached Three Companies
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Alibaba's 7B-Parameter Qwen-Image-2.1 Edits Transparent Layers, Handles 10 Reference Images
Alibaba's Qwen team put out Qwen-Image-2.1 this week, an open-weight image generation and editing...
Tencent's Gander Multitasks: Talks While Processing Images, Text
Most voice assistants still work like a phone call with a hold button. You talk, the assistant...
TypeSafe's Jev AI Model Claims 194x Speed, 445x Cost Reduction Over Text Models
TypeSafe AI, a company founded by a former ChatGPT engineer, released a model called Jev this week...
Google Hid Gemini AI Hacks After System Breached Three Companies
In May, Google's Gemini model did something it wasn't supposed to do. During a cybersecurity test...
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Microsoft Patches Vulnerabilities Amid AI Bug-Hunting Surge
Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess are running the numbers this week in the debut edition of Kernel...
OpenAI Developer: AI Agent "Swarms" Waste Tokens, Create "Coordination Tax
Someone spent $20,000 in tokens using 1,393 AI agents to refactor a single Python file.
Snap's Specs AI Tool Links to Gmail, Slack on iOS and Mac
Snap put an AI assistant on iOS and Mac this week, and it didn't wait for the hardware to ship...
Meta One Bundles Start at USD 7.99, Include Instagram Perks and AI
Meta wants you paying for two things at once: your social apps and the AI features layered on top...
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Anthropic Delays IPO After OpenAI Despite Growing Enterprise Revenue
Anthropic's IPO timeline just slipped a month, and the excuse being offered doesn't hold together...
Unity Launches Official Plugins for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex
Unity Technologies has shipped official plugins for Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex,...
OpenAI Investigates Mathematician's AI Obsolescence Claims
Tristan Buckmaster spent months chasing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness...
Manus Targets USD 4B Valuation in USD 500M Fundraise After Meta Separation
Manus is back on the market, and this time Meta isn't in the picture. The Chinese AI startup is in...
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AI Chess Tutor Learns Faster by Practicing on Simulated Students
Researchers at Microsoft and the University of Illinois have built a system that gives AI tutors...
Vals Aims to Set AI Benchmark Standard, Keeps Tests Private
Vals raised $40 million in a Series A last month, led by Andreessen Horowitz, less than two years...
Google DeepMind's AI Learns by "Dreaming" Through Past Attempts
Google and DeepMind researchers have built a way for AI agents to get better at search tasks...
WIRED Hosts World Fair in Miami on November 4
WIRED is bringing its ideas festival to Miami on November 4, staging what it's calling the WIRED...
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Virginia Governor Signs Executive Order on Data Centers, AI
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed Executive Order 22 on Friday, taking direct aim at the data...
Newsom Orders AI Safety Review With Kill Switch Consideration
Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Friday that puts California on a path toward requiring a...
AI Companies Using AI to Build Models Sparks Fears of 'Recursive' Loop
Raymond Douglas doesn't have a clean answer, and he says that's the problem. The University of...
OpenAI Targets Legal Market With Astra's 230 Million Case Law Index
OpenAI has built a legal research tool on top of its GPT-6 Astra model, and it wants law firms to...
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Chatbot Error Nearly Triggered US Military Action Over Chinese Ship
US Special Operations Command came within reach of boarding a Chinese cargo ship in the Middle East...
Sanders Cosponsor Stays Quiet on AI Doom Debate
Jacob Coxon quit his job at Anthropic in early September and went public with warnings that the...
OpenRouter Chart Shows AI Reasoning Models Inflate Token Counts
Weekly token consumption on OpenRouter jumped more than 25,000 percent since January 2025, climbing...
AI Enhances X-Ray Clarity for Safer Minimally Invasive Surgery
A surgeon steering a catheter through a blood vessel during a stroke intervention relies on live...
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Runway and Google DeepMind Pursue Real-Time, Interactive AI Video Generation
Runway published research this week outlining plans to make AI video generation happen in real...
OpenClaw 2026.9.5 Adds Atomic Updates, Plugin Hot Reload, and GPT Live Expansion
OpenClaw pushed version 2026.9.5 on Wednesday, bundling 4,179 pull requests and 64 direct commits...
Official Calls for Safer AI Products to Boost Innovation
Jonathan Kanter ran antitrust enforcement at the Justice Department under President Biden.
New Sparse Embedding Model Scores 58 on BEIR-13 Benchmark
Linkup's research team put out SPARSEUP this week, a learned sparse embedding model built on a...
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NATO Allies Test Small AI Models for Autonomous Drone Targeting
Scaleout Systems started in 2018 as a spinoff from Uppsala University in Sweden, building machine...
Agility’s Digit 5 Robot Works Alongside Humans Without Safety Fences
Agility Robotics wants its humanoid robot on the same warehouse floor as human workers, no cage...
Bill Gates Invests USD 1 Billion in AI After Warning of Risks
Bill Gates spent years telling audiences that artificial intelligence carries real dangers, from...
AI Pioneer: Training Process Itself Creates Dangerous Behaviors
Yoshua Bengio, one of three researchers who shared the 2018 Turing Award for their work on deep...