Google stretches Gemini video to 15 seconds and cuts the rate

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash reaches general availability at $0.07 per second for 720p, 30 percent below its predecessor.

Meta lets Muse agents build their own little rooms

Spaces turns a chat thread into a persistent project workspace that keeps updating from connected apps.

Physicl raises 10 million to make simulation honest enough for robots

The seed round led by Inovia Capital funds a platform that turns messy real-world scans into physically accurate training worlds.

Texans turned the data center boom into a ballot question

Tuesday's blue wave put two data center skeptics in charge of the state hosting the country's biggest AI buildouts.

Clutch sits at 50 times revenue in a reported Palo Alto deal

Palo Alto Networks is said to be paying $500M for a three-year-old startup that guards the doors between agents and…

Ramp’s card data says the AI spending boom has plateaued

Companies are running more tokens than ever while paying almost nothing extra for them, and that is bad news for…

Inkling 2 Small jumps to 31 on intelligence index for Thinking Machines

The lab's second generation ships as a 594B mixture of experts on Tinker, with open weights waiting on a safety…

Underdog shrinks a voice engine to 32MB inside a browser game

A 31-million-parameter voice model runs offline in a retro room where a typewriter reads back whatever you write.

Together lets coding agents rewrite the forward pass all day

A persistent serving engine turns kernel tuning into a continuous loop, and Together says it beats the best published throughput…

Half a million H200 chips wait out a decision in Hong Kong

Reuters reports roughly 600,000 of Nvidia's H200 accelerators are sitting in Hong Kong while Beijing declines to approve bulk shipments…

OpenAI’s bug hunt turns up 948 paths to root

An experimental cyber model found and proved out 948 Linux root exploits in a single October run that cost $1.2M…

Baidu hands out a 280B model with no instructions attached

Baidu published the raw pre-training weights of ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base on Hugging Face, a 280B mixture-of-experts checkpoint that has never been taught…

Claude cites a wire service after a quiet licensing turn

Adweek reports Anthropic paid the Associated Press for election data that surfaced in Claude, the lab's first deal with a…

Anthropic wants a receipt proving which model answered you

A cryptographic fingerprint could let users check that the model they paid for is the model that replied, without labs…

Economists want to design rules instead of peering inside models

Reverse game theory gives up on reading a model's mind and tries to rig the incentives around it, an approach…

Sequoia gathers $10B and bets everything on one close-knit team

The venture firm is closing its London office and ending its Arc and Scouts programs, betting that fewer, more senior investors serve founders better.

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Tencent folds vision detection and masking into a compact offering

An open model from the WeChat vision team handles detection, counting, OCR and pixel masking without bolting on a separate segmentation stack.

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Fal lands $1.3B and a $16B price tag on inference demand

Serverless model hosting has turned into one of the most expensive races in AI infrastructure,…

Voters in nine states put a fence around the AI buildout

Ballot measures and midterm upsets turned server farms into one of the most punishing issues…

Pangram adds video detection built on a frame-by-frame model

The text detector is moving into visual forensics with a flagship image model and a…

An AI edited a small model’s weights and doubled its math score

MIT researchers say GPT-6 Astra changed 0.016 percent of Qwen's parameters, taking MATH-500 from 7.9…

Thieves are renting out cloud AI keys pilfered from enterprises

Google's threat team says stolen model access resold through underground gateways produced single-day bills above…

Britain’s cyber agency sets a two-year clock on AI-written ransomware

The NCSC judges it highly likely that AI-powered malware features in a ransomware attack on…