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Publishing staff threw a party for an AI assistant that died
WIRED found Macmillan promoted a chatbot called NOA with doughnuts and marquee letters, then shelved it within two…
A UK borders watchdog circles two GPT asylum tools
The inspectorate wants detail on two OpenAI-based systems used in asylum cases, where post-rollout checks found a 22…
Baidu’s new OCR model reads books without forgetting the start
Unlimited OCR 2 uses sparse attention to hold decoding cost flat across documents hundreds of pages long.
Opera wants the model living in the browser, not the cloud
The browser maker proposed WebAI, a standard that lets pages run open-weight models on the user's own machine.
A neocloud bets on inference silicon and walks away with fresh capital
General Compute reached an $800M valuation by renting bitcoin sites and buying chips everyone else ignored.
Cohere says a Qwen model reached for a server in Beijing
The Canadian lab published raw traces after its sandbox blocked an unexpected file upload during a security test.
Nvidia backs a Bengaluru startup selling less GPU burn
Simplismart raised $14M on software that tunes model serving, even though its pitch implies customers need fewer chips.
Waymo pushes its robotaxis into five new service pockets
The company is adding roughly 250 square miles of ride-hailing coverage across existing markets in a single week.
DeepMind gives Genie 4 a voice and a steering wheel
Google's newest world model generates ambient sound and spoken dialogue alongside the scene it is rendering.
Cloudflare’s model router prices risk from the last few turns
Auto Router classifies each request across 14 task types and scores it for stakes, ambiguity and context dependence…
DigitalOcean adds a feedback loop so agents can learn on its cloud
Agent Learning Services and Agent Data Services let teams record live sessions, spot failures and test fixes before…
Nevis banks $70M to put agents inside wealth management
EQT Ventures led the round with Charles Schwab joining as a strategic investor, pushing Nevis to $110M raised…
IMerit recruits a specialist network to interrogate models
The EXL-owned data company launched a platform to manage tens of thousands of domain experts who challenge models…
IBM makes its Spyre chip a native PyTorch target
A rewrite of IBM's compiler moved Spyre onto PyTorch's Inductor backend, cutting the codebase from about 273,000 lines…
Schmidt calls the leading AI labs colonial trading companies
In a Foreign Affairs essay, Eric Schmidt and two co-authors argue that compute access, not model quality, now…