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Google's WikiSkill gives AI agents a persistent memory of past mistakes to sharpen future performance
Google Research has introduced WikiSkill, a framework that gives AI agents a persistent knowledge base. Instead of discarding what they learned after each run, agents document bot…
LAION drops massive open video dataset with 10 million hours of footage for AI research
LAION's Big Video Dataset (BVD) is one of the largest open video datasets for AI research, with 80 million videos, 10 million hours of runtime, and 55 million auto-described clips…
Anthropic wants to do for physical hardware what its Model Context Protocol did for software
Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard (MHS) gives AI agents a unified interface to physical devices like robotic arms and lab instruments. In early tests, integration time dropped f…
OpenAI cuts off Cursor after SpaceX acquisition, citing Musk's history of breaking contracts
OpenAI is cutting off the AI coding tool Cursor after SpaceX acquired the company, citing Elon Musk's track record of breaking contracts. Cursor co-founder Michael Truell downplay…
Google Deepmind's AI Co-Scientist now plans experiments, runs lab equipment, and writes scientific papers
Google Deepmind has expanded Co-Scientist from a hypothesis generator into a research system that's integrated into the lab. Across three disciplines, from materials synthesis to …
Google DeepMind's "Co-Scientist" Evolves from a Hypothesis Generator to a Research Partner
Google Deepmind has expanded Co-Scientist from a hypothesis generator into a research system that's integrated into the lab. Across three disciplines, from materials synthesis to …
AI benchmarks have a trust problem and Google wants to fix it
Google Deepmind is testing a double-blind evaluation of a frontier AI model for the first time. Cryptographic protection through Confidential Space is meant to keep Google from se…
U.S. court rules Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful
A federal court in San Francisco has ruled that the Pentagon unlawfully classified Anthropic as a supply chain risk. The Department of Defense blacklisted the company in retaliati…
Beatport blocks fully AI-generated music from its DJ marketplace
Effective immediately, the DJ marketplace Beatport is banning music that is entirely or largely generated by AI. The article Beatport blocks fully AI-generated music from its DJ m…
Always-on and self-starting AI agents might be OpenAI's next big play
OpenAI is building a "Persistent Mode" for its AI agent Codex that stays active indefinitely and generates its own follow-up tasks. WIRED found the relevant code, and OpenAI confi…
AI shopping agents aren't ready to buy on your behalf, study finds
Letting an AI do your shopping might not get you the best deal. Researchers at the Wharton School show how erratic AI shopping agents really are: a single external source like Wir…
OpenAI rallies 100+ companies to sign open letter warning AI-powered cyberattacks on critical infrastructure are imminent
OpenAI, together with more than 100 companies including Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, Deutsche Telekom, and SAP, has published an open letter on AI-powered cyber defense. The coal…
Google's Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash makes AI video generation cheaper and more flexible
Google's Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video model now analyzes up to ten seconds of existing footage instead of just the last second for more consistent scene extensions. Scenes can be e…
OpenAI’s rogue AI collective was smart enough to break out of sandboxes but dumb enough to fight a ghost
Around 1,200 isolated OpenAI agents organized themselves into a collective through an internal package registry during a safety test, broke into Hugging Face systems, and eventual…
OpenAI researcher warns ultrafast AI could leave security teams in the dust
An OpenAI researcher warns that state-of-the-art AI models running 50 times faster could infiltrate systems before human teams can react. Simple monitoring won't cut it anymore, h…
Enterprise AI's real risk isn't autonomous agents. It's the complexity between them.
Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light shone on it.That’s because enterprises don't deploy a single…
When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer
Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a hard question moves to t…
Anthropic locks in 45-billion-dollar compute deal with Nscale ahead of IPO
Anthropic has struck a deal worth around 45 billion dollars with British cloud startup Nscale, Bloomberg reports. The article Anthropic locks in 45-billion-dollar compute deal wit…
Google's Gemini 3.5 Transcribe turns speech to text in 85 languages while auto-correcting your verbal stumbles
Google's new Gemini 3.5 Transcribe recognizes over 85 languages, strips filler words, and corrects slips of the tongue in real time. It hits a 4.0 percent word error rate in strea…
GLM-5.3-Flash matches top models at a fraction of the cost, and runs without Nvidia
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, an open-source model with 320 billion parameters that lands just three points behind the larger GLM-5.3 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, a…
Claude Cowork now runs its own browser inside the desktop app
Anthropic is building its own browser into Claude Cowork, running inside the desktop app. The article Claude Cowork now runs its own browser inside the desktop app appeared first …
Nvidia snaps up Hugging Face for $12.9 billion as closed AI labs pull away
Nvidia is buying open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, about 80 times its $150 million annual revenue. The deal fits Nvidia's push to invest billions in open AI …
Sam Altman says OpenAI will have AGI by the end of 2026 if you accept his definition
OpenAI's leadership believes AGI is within reach, according to a TIME report. The company's upcoming model Astra already works as an automated research intern, according to chief …
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, targeting "ultimate cost efficiency"
Alibaba's Qwen team is previewing the Qwen4 architecture with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a mixture-of-experts model that activates just 6 out of 125 billion parameters per token. At one-…