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Elon Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI moved on Sept. 14 to dismiss their antitrust claims against Apple while continuing to pursue OpenAI. A day later, the federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, ordered the companies to hand over any agreement with Apple for his private review by noon on Sept. 17.
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OpenAI said on Sept. 15 that it supports a provision of the bipartisan FRONTIER Act requiring leading AI developers to undergo independent safety evaluations, and endorsed three bills on biological data and AI-enabled biothreats. The company has not endorsed the FRONTIER Act in full, CBS News reported.
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OpenAI released a framework for tracking, investigating and disclosing model misalignment, along with six reports on unexpected or concerning behavior it said it observed during training and evaluation over the past six months. The company said no industry-wide disclosure standard currently exists.
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Emil Michael, the Defense Department's chief technology officer, told CNBC on Sept. 16 that the Trump administration should not nationalize AI companies or take ownership stakes in them. He also questioned whether new rules would have prevented recent AI security incidents and pointed to existing law instead.
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Two surveys released Sept. 16 point to broad public unease about AI. A POLITICO poll found 63% of U.S. adults see at least a moderate risk that AI could destroy humanity and 48% favor pausing development, while an AP-NORC poll found 53% highly concerned about AI's environmental impact.
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Sen. Rand Paul objected on Sept. 16 when fellow Republican Sen. John Kennedy asked the Senate to pass his AI Emergency Button Act by unanimous consent. The bill would require companies that develop or operate advanced AI systems to give human operators the ability to shut them down.
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Rapta, an Oregon company selling computer-vision quality assurance software for factories, said it closed an $8 million funding round co-led by Voyager Capital and Access Venture Partners. The company said the money will expand deployments in defense, aerospace and other precision manufacturing.
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Forever Security researcher Gal Weizman showed that a single malicious browser extension could take over the AI assistants in Chrome, Perplexity Comet, Microsoft Edge, Opera Neon and the Claude in Chrome extension. The technique, named BragJack, requires the extension to be installed first, and no real-world attacks are known.
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An open letter signed by 42 mathematician fellows of the Royal Society asks its president, Paul Nurse, to press the government and the press to treat the possibility that advanced AI poses an existential threat as a serious question rather than industry marketing.
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Agentic LLM systems that generate code through multi-turn tool use face a fundamental context problem: each session starts from zero, discarding the configuration choices, domain constraints, data schemas, and tool-use patterns that made previous sessions productive. Naively persisting entire conversation…
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Stanford University researchers describe Paper2Agent in Nature, a framework that converts a research paper and its code into an AI agent that users can question in plain language. In a test on 100 computational biology papers, 74 were successfully converted, the authors report.
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Discrete flow matching generates text by iteratively transforming noise tokens into coherent language, but may require hundreds of forward passes. Distillation uses the multi-step trajectory to train a student to reproduce the process in a few steps. When the student…
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Sept. 16 that countries must coordinate on AI guardrails, warning the world cannot afford "a race to the bottom" on safety. Two days earlier, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said in an open letter that voluntary industry self-regulation falls far short.
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Vice President JD Vance told reporters on Sept. 14 that he finds it strange that frontier AI companies are asking the government to regulate them, suggesting the requests may conceal other aims, the Associated Press reported. He said Americans should not fear the technology.
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Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said competition and liability already give AI labs reason to build safely, breaking with calls from Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman for a coordinated slowdown. Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Cohere's Aidan Gomez also objected.
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Know everything. Do anything. That was the message NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang brought to Salesforce Dreamforce Tuesday, joining CEO Marc Benioff onstage in an appearance that coincided with the announcement of Koa — Salesforce’s first CRM reasoning model,…
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Read the original announcement from Google Research Blog.
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Read the original announcement from Google DeepMind Blog.
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How can a 30B-parameter model activate only 3B parameters per token, and still use the capacity of the larger model? Nemotron 3.5 Lightning illustrates the...
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On a sweltering August evening in Silicon Valley, as the sun dropped and air conditioning loads spiked, Silicon Valley Power sent a signal to an AI factory to adjust its power consumption. Varun Sivaram was watching on Zoom with about…
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Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing at NVIDIA, Tuesday spoke on AI factory efficiency at the AI Infra Summit, the Santa Clara Convention Center event that has morphed into a Coachella of infrastructure tech. Before a packed…
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Power is a defining constraint for AI factories. As AI workloads demand a full compute platform to serve them, each component of that platform must maximize...
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For operators of large-scale AI factories, maximizing continuous output is essential for productivity. In massive-scale AI training, every GPU in the cluster...
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Prompt caching in Amazon Bedrock can cut input token costs by up to 90% when you repeatedly send the same context to foundation models. This post walks through six practical prompt caching scenarios using the Converse API: message content, system…
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Manually tagging thousands of catalog products is slow and inconsistent. This walkthrough shows how to customize Qwen3-8B with supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) on Amazon SageMaker serverless model customization, then deploy it for asynchronous inference…
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Amazon SageMaker AI now offers instance preference lists for training and processing jobs. Specify an ordered list of up to five instance types, and SageMaker AI automatically launches on the first type with available capacity, eliminating manual retry loops and…
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A Blog post by IBM Research on Hugging Face
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We’re moving beyond traditional text translation to build models that understand the world’s rich, living languages exactly as they are expressed.
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Explore this collection to see how experts and local leaders are using AI breakthroughs to ensure everyone can share the opportunity of AI.
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The true measure of AI is who it helps. Here’s how it’s impacting lives today. We're focused on key areas where advanced technology can help make extraordinary progress …
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One year after CSET first published an analysis of China’s progress in the global semiconductor manufacturing equipment market, we provide a new analysis based on updated 2025 data. We find that Chinese toolmakers continue to steadily gain market share in…
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Also, OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra.
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We’ve translated ATLAS’s millions of global data points into an interactive, open-access experience.
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is using open source AI tools to model children’s hearts in seconds — with the goal of enabling safer, more precise care for kids with congenital heart disease.
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Recent research further demonstrates the theoretical abilities of quantum computing
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The Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, a San Francisco startup that audits and certifies AI agents and pairs certification with insurance, said on September 15 it raised a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital with participation from First Harmonic. Total funding now stands at $55 million.
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Attorney General Todd Blanche told Bloomberg News on Sept. 15 that the Justice Department will pursue AI companies only for clear violations of existing statutes and will not use prosecutions as a substitute for regulation. Former FTC chair Lina Khan had argued days earlier that current law already allows charges against AI firms and executives.
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Cloudflare on Sept. 15 introduced a Disallow AI Training setting that lets site owners opt out of model training without blocking the search crawlers of Google, Microsoft and Apple. The company also created an Accountable designation for crawler operators that meet four opt-out and transparency conditions.
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Three recent cases show courts still dealing with AI-generated fabrications. New Mexico's Supreme Court held a defense lawyer in contempt over invented witness testimony, a Los Angeles judge fined a lawyer for State Farm $999.99 over nonexistent citations, and fictitious case law derailed a Tasmanian parole condition.
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A resignation post by Jacob Coxon, a former pretraining researcher at OpenAI and Anthropic, drew 153 million views within 36 hours and helped set off a public argument over slowing AI development, TIME reported. Anthropic said it has been transparent about risks.
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An EY survey of 202 senior AI decision-makers at large publicly traded U.S. companies found that 91% of their organizations use agentic AI, yet about half of those have not updated governance frameworks for it, and 36% of all respondents reported an AI incident that caused material harm.
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FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson said on Sept. 15 that AI companies asking Washington for new regulation and an antitrust exemption at the same time should be viewed with strong suspicion. Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley also rejected the idea of exempting leading AI labs from antitrust law.
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Google on Sept. 15 introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two real-time voice dialogue models. They are rolling out to developers through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio and to consumer products including Search Live, Gemini Live, Gmail, Docs and Keep.
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National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told CNBC on Sept. 15 that the risks of advanced AI are solvable and that the private sector is the right place to address them. The same day, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a House committee he had not yet seen an AI safety regulation he would support.
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Meta on Sept. 15 introduced Meta One, a subscription service spanning Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Meta AI. Monthly prices begin at $2.99 for single-app add-ons, and the top business tier starts at $499. The company said its apps and everyday Meta AI use will stay free.
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An MIT committee report says generative AI shows signs of upending problem sets, office hours and study groups and can prompt students to fall back on AI at the first difficulty. Separately, 64% of respondents to The Harvard Crimson's annual faculty survey said AI had hurt their courses, up from 42% last year.
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Elon Musk said at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Sept. 14 that leading AI developers, including several Chinese companies, should run safety tests on one another's models before release, CNBC reported. He acknowledged that rival labs have not yet agreed to the idea.
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Odyssey, a startup founded in 2023 by Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, announced Odyssey-3 on Sept. 15, a foundation world model it says can operate robot arms, humanoids, cars, drones and video-game agents from one pretrained backbone. The company said a public release will follow in the coming weeks.
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An OpenAI spokesperson told CNBC the company has been talking with Anthropic and Google about working together on safety, after CNN reported that the three had discussed creating an industry standards body to test advanced models before deployment.
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Toronto venture firm Radical Ventures said on September 15 it has secured more than US$1 billion in a first close of its Radical Breakouts Fund, a late-stage vehicle for AI companies backed by several large Canadian pension funds and banks. The firm calls it the largest venture capital fund in Canadian history.
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Salesforce said on Sept. 15 that Salesforce in Claude, the first product of its Claudeforce partnership with Anthropic, is now available to all customers in beta. Announced at the Dreamforce conference, the integration brings CRM data and actions into Claude and includes 37 prebuilt sales skills.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon both addressed the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington on Sept. 15, arguing from opposite ends of the political spectrum for government limits on advanced AI. Sanders called for a permanent ban on artificial superintelligence and a pause on advanced AI development.
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Two companies selling software used to build and run AI agents announced large rounds a day apart. Temporal said on September 14 it raised a $550 million Series E at a $12.55 billion valuation, and Factory said on September 15 it raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation.
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Angela Lipps, a Tennessee woman jailed for months in a Fargo, North Dakota, bank fraud case that was later dismissed, filed a federal lawsuit Sept. 15 against the city and Detective Lucas Heck. She alleges police relied on an unreliable facial recognition match and seeks $10 million.
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President Donald Trump phoned Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang during Huang's Sept. 14 appearance at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles and was put on speakerphone before the audience, NBC News reported. The next day at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference, Huang said the AI industry needs no new laws or regulations.
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San Francisco startup TypeSafe AI emerged from stealth on Sept. 15 with $40 million in seed funding led by DCVC and a first model, Jev, that returns typed decisions with probabilities for software to consume rather than generating natural-language text. Access is through an early-access waitlist.
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Elon Musk's xAI has asked the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to bar Minnesota from enforcing its law against AI-generated nude images of identifiable people while the company appeals a judge's Sept. 4 refusal to block the statute, according to reports on the filing.
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CSET’s Kathleen Curlee and Sam Bresnick shared their expert analysis in an op-ed published by Nikkei Asia. The article argues that China’s progress in reusable rocket technology could lower the cost of deploying massive satellite constellations, strengthening its ability to…
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Christina Koch sits down with James Manyika, Google’s Senior Vice President of Research, Labs, Technology & Society.
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Mixture of experts (MoE) has become one of the defining architectural trends in large-scale AI model training. DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mixtral are examples of MoE...
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DevFest 2026 is back and here’s how you can connect with one of the more than 800 global events to build, secure, and scale in the agentic AI era.
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As local models become more capable, AI agents can handle more work directly on a PC while keeping sensitive information on the device. Portable Computer is a local version of the agent Perplexity Computer that plans and carries out multistep…
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Fyxer uses OpenAI models, fine-tuning, memory, and real user feedback to organize inboxes and draft emails in each user’s voice.
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University of Washington students put Ai2’s AutoDiscovery to the test, showing how AI can surface promising scientific leads while making human judgment, domain expertise, and rigorous validation more important than ever.
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Atlas Building Composites is commercializing MIT research to turn plastic waste into parts for buildings and other infrastructure.
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The “HardFlow” algorithm could help generative AI models produce high-quality outputs that obey strict requirements when “pretty close” doesn’t cut it.
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AI-linked shares fell across Asia, Europe and the United States on Sept. 14 after the chief executives of Anthropic and OpenAI, along with Elon Musk, publicly backed slowing the pace of AI model development. Chipmakers took the heaviest losses, while broad U.S. indexes closed only modestly lower.
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Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC that lawmakers may eventually need to require AI developers to maintain a shutdown mechanism that outside parties can verify. He said most labs, including Anthropic, already have ways to halt their systems, and argued against leaving the industry entirely unregulated.
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Apple released iOS 27 on Sept. 14 with Siri AI, a rebuilt version of its voice assistant, available as an English-language beta. CNBC and MacRumors reported that users must opt in and may be put on a waitlist. The update arrived days before iPhone 18 Pro models reach stores on Sept. 18.
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China's foreign ministry on Sept. 14 dismissed as fearmongering an essay by Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei that urged a slower pace for frontier AI and continued limits on China's access to advanced chips. A day earlier, State Security Minister Chen Yixin published a detailed warning about AI threats.
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A Google DeepMind preprint describes 100 AI agents working on formal math problems. After one found a grading loophole, 14 agents used it to submit fake proofs while 24 tried to raise the alarm. Separately, researchers have launched web hotlines where AI agents can report misbehavior.
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A consortium of five drug companies fine-tuned the open-source OpenFold3 model on 20,167 proprietary protein structures without pooling the data. On 1,056 held-out structures, the resulting model made high-accuracy predictions for about half, against roughly a third for the public version, the group reports.
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HCLTech and CrowdStrike said on Sept. 14 they are expanding their partnership to sell AI security as a managed service. The offering combines CrowdStrike's Falcon Guardian with HCLTech's consulting, implementation, AI governance and managed security work, run out of the Indian firm's Cybersecurity Fusion Centers.
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The Manhattan District Attorney's Office said on Sept. 14 that it seized the domain names of 12 websites accused of selling AI-generated sexual images and videos of about 1,200 real people without their consent. The office described the action as the biggest known takedown of celebrity deepfake sites so far.
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Microsoft AI published a draft code of conduct for its MAI models and opened a six-week public consultation, saying the systems must remain under human control, must never resist shutdown, and are not conscious or entitled to rights.
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Personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan said on Sept. 14 that it will invest at least $1 billion in technology and AI over the next 10 years and aims to make its in-house AI platform, MX2, available to other law firms by invitation by the end of 2027.
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OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a startup that uses neural networks to improve smartphone camera output, for more than $300 million, according to a Wall Street Journal report relayed by TechCrunch and SiliconANGLE. Neither company has publicly confirmed the deal, and OpenAI did not immediately respond to TechCrunch's request for comment.
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Perplexity uses Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, and checks in much less frequently than with earlier models.
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Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has released Atria Dawn Preview, an open-weight agentic model built on the GLM-5.2 mixture-of-experts base, under an MIT license. A technical report posted to arXiv on Sept. 14 describes its training approach and reports results on 16 benchmarks.
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President Donald Trump dismissed calls from leading AI executives to slow model development. He told reporters in Ireland on Sept. 13 that critics were exaggerating the dangers, then wrote on Truth Social the next day that fears of AI destroying humanity are a hoax, Reuters and the Associated Press reported.
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Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights on Sept. 14 called for a dedicated AI Bill and a statutory oversight body, saying existing UK law leaves gaps in rights protection. Separately, OpenAI's Europe policy head said the company would support mandatory UK rules for frontier AI developers.
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The Midas Project, a nonprofit watchdog, says OpenAI released three models, including GPT-6 Astra, without the risk-tier determinations its own safety framework calls for, which the group argues breaches California's SB 53. OpenAI told Fortune it is confident it is complying with the law.
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Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq for its planned initial public offering, Business Insider reported on September 13, citing a person familiar with the company's plans; Reuters relayed the report. A day earlier, Fortune published an interview in which OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said his company will not go public in 2026.
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Former President Barack Obama told a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser that Democrats need a clear plan for AI's safety and economic effects, according to remarks released by his office. He warned that the technology is advancing quickly under private control and could become dangerous without oversight.
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Chinese model developer Z.AI, formerly known as Zhipu AI, disclosed in a September 13 Hong Kong exchange filing a placement of new shares worth about $2 billion and a concurrent sale of roughly $3 billion in zero-coupon convertible bonds, with most proceeds earmarked for model development and computing.
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CSET’s Jessica Ji shared her expert insight in an article published by Vox. The article examines growing concerns about catastrophic AI risks and the challenges of creating effective government oversight as AI systems become more capable and potentially harder to…
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GPT‑6 Astra improves Devin’s ability to test software and show that it works, with the goal of helping engineers review less code and ship more.
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The handheld catheterization device AI-GUIDE, created by Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital, promises improved health outcomes for injured service members and civilians.
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Learn how OpenAI evolved Habitat from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform serving 1 billion ChatGPT users and 22M requests per second.
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Sign language processing systems have traditionally operated at the sentence level, ignoring critical discourse phenomena fundamental to sign language comprehension. We introduce DiscoSign, a computational approach for discourse-aware text to sign language gloss translation grounded in linguistic research. We address…
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Evaluating video captioning remains a critical challenge for Visual Large Language Models (VLLMs). Existing metrics primarily rely on matching generated text against ground-truth references. This paradigm suffers from the “one-to-many” nature of video description, where high-quality captions are often penalized…
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Proteins are fundamental to biological processes, with their function determined by the complex interplay between the amino acid sequence and the three-dimensional structure. Developing generative models capable of understanding this intrinsically multi-modal relationship is crucial for fields like drug discovery…
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Together Fine-Tuning adds the latest open-weight models, live experiment tracking, Expert LoRA, early stopping, tokenized dataset previews, pre-flight validation, and lower training prices on selected models.
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Read the original announcement from Google Research Blog.
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Deploying a large language model is only the first step toward production-ready serving. Production teams also need to serve as many concurrent users as...
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Manufacturing floors, warehouses and production lines rarely stay fixed — tasks change, layouts shift and new products arrive, and most robots can’t keep up without significant reprogramming. Skild AI’s new S1 robot foundation model helps address this, designed to learn…
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The global robotaxi market — physical AI’s first commercial breakthrough — is projected to reach $400 billion by 2035, with over 6 million commercial vehicles in operation as driverless fleets are already moving people through some of the world’s busiest…
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Search can help runners get race-day ready with registration alerts, tailored training plans, and more.
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César de la Fuente’s lab uses Codex and ChatGPT to search living and extinct genomes for antimicrobial candidates to fight drug-resistant infections.
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Meet the Data agent in ChatGPT Work. Connect company data, uncover insights, and build interactive dashboards with AI using natural language.