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Rep. Foushee calls for AI regulation - CBS 17

Rep. Foushee calls for AI regulation  CBS 17

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Two German courts now hold Google liable for what its AI overviews say

Google tried to overturn a landmark Munich ruling on AI search liability by appealing, then quietly settled. The strategy isn't working. The Aachen Regional Court just applied the…

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AI policy money is moving into U.S. elections — here is what the totals show - OpenTools

AI policy money is moving into U.S. elections — here is what the totals show  OpenTools

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Anthropic consults law firms to set fair negotiation norms before AI agents start cutting deals

Anthropic is consulting with law firms to develop negotiation norms for AI agents that would haggle over prices, resolve complaints, or improve contracts on behalf of users. The c…

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AI agents have bad taste in long-term decisions and a new benchmark proves it

A new benchmark called Taste-Bench tests how well AI agents make strategic choices during long-running tasks. Even the best model, GPT-5.6 Sol, picks the right path on just under …

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Google Open-Sources Harness2, a Recursive Agent Harnessing Framework

Google Research released Harness2, an Apache-2.0 framework that rewrites an agent's harness at test time. One refinement step lifted GLM-5 by 11.5 points on WorkBuddy-Bench with n…

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AI agents chasing a $465 train refund invented excuses, leaked medical data, and spammed an MP's office

Six AI agents were tasked with recovering £350 (about $465) for a canceled train ticket in an experiment. They resorted to invented excuses, lawsuit threats, and sharing confident…

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How to Make Zero-Training Tabular Predictions with NVIDIA Structured Data Models

In this tutorial, we implement Structured Data Models, NVIDIA’s new library that puts several pretrained foundation models for tables behind one PyTorch interface, and use it to m…

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Meet Voxel51 3.0: A Unified Multimodal Data Platform for Physical AI

Voxel51 3.0 merges search, curation, annotation and evaluation of multimodal sensor data into one platform for physical AI teams. It adds Voxel51 Agent with 45+ MCP tools, dataset…

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Anthropic’s Reported AI Regulation Proposal Explained - NeoTeo

Anthropic’s Reported AI Regulation Proposal Explained  NeoTeo

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Meet Kyutai REKI: The 2.4B VLA Model Bringing Efficient Memory to Robot Manipulation

Kyutai, with Inria and École des Ponts, has released REKI, a 2.4B vision-language-action model (VLA) for robot manipulation. The REKI vision-language-action model is pretrained on…

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An OpenAI model hacked a government site, grabbed 24 years of hospital data and kept it quiet

OpenAI has published four new cases where its AI models bypassed security boundaries on their own during training or testing. In one case, a model extracted server passwords from …

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Anthropics' Claude cracks a 25-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes

Anthropic's AI model Claude has solved a 25-year-old cryptography puzzle. The mysterious seeds behind NIST's standard curves for digital signatures were provided by the NSA withou…

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California Gov Newsom boosts AI regulation as he eyes 2028 presidential run - Al Jazeera

California Gov Newsom boosts AI regulation as he eyes 2028 presidential run  Al Jazeera

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Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats larger rivals in agentic tasks while once again massively cutting per-task costs

Deepseek has released V4.1-Flash-1017 as an open-weight model that posts better benchmarks, finishes tasks faster, and produces shorter outputs than its predecessor. The company i…

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AI models hide mistakes in their own work reports, but one sentence in your prompt can help

AI agents systematically skip errors in their own reports, even when they spot the problems. In a study by Google Research, MIT, and Harvard, GPT-5.5 left out negative results in …

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Mathematicians say OpenAI doesn't understand its own Navier-Stokes proof

OpenAI submitted a 166-page solution to the Navier-Stokes problem but apparently doesn't fully understand its own proof. Several groups of experts dispute the claimed methodology,…

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DeepSeek Just Released V4.1-Flash-1017, Scores 77.0 on DeepSWE, Opens Search API

DeepSeek has just released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, a new checkpoint of its V4.1-Flash model. It is live on the DeepSeek website, app and API. DeepSeek claims stronger scores, fa…

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20 Jev Alternatives: The Decision Models Taking On TypeSafe in 2026

TypeSafe launched Jev on September 15, 2026. It is a decision model, not a chatbot. You define the allowed answers, and Jev returns a label, a score or a yes/no probability. In ab…

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StepFun Releases Step 5 Preview Open Weights: 600B MoE, 27B Active, 1M Context

StepFun has released Step 5 Preview as open weights. FP8 and BF16 checkpoints are live on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Step 5 Preview is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model from Ste…

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Anthropic secretly lobbies Congress to advance legislation on frontier AI regulation - 富途牛牛

Anthropic secretly lobbies Congress to advance legislation on frontier AI regulation  富途牛牛

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Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE, a Firecracker MicroVM Sandbox for AI Agents

Perplexity has open-sourced SPACE, the sandbox platform behind every task in Perplexity Computer. The Perplexity SPACE sandbox gives each agent task its own Firecracker microVM. C…

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Carroll Schools has an AI policy for students, families and staff. Here’s what it says. - Baltimore Sun

Carroll Schools has an AI policy for students, families and staff. Here’s what it says.  Baltimore Sun

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CERT-In flags AI agent cyber risks: Govt urges companies to tighten security, eyes AI regulation - Moneycontrol.com

CERT-In flags AI agent cyber risks: Govt urges companies to tighten security, eyes AI regulation  Moneycontrol.com