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RELEASE: Gottheimer Discusses AI Policy at the University of Pennsylvania - House.gov

RELEASE: Gottheimer Discusses AI Policy at the University of Pennsylvania  House.gov

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Bank of America puts 4,000 people on fixing vulnerabilities uncovered by Anthropic's Mythos and other AI models

Bank of America has hired 1,000 outside contractors to fix software vulnerabilities uncovered by AI models like Anthropic's Mythos, CNBC reports. The article Bank of America puts …

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GPT-6-Astra solves 49 of 50 physics research problems at $2.40 apiece

On the TheoPhysEval benchmark, GPT-6-Astra solves 49 of 50 unpublished theoretical physics calculations as accurately as leading specialists. In some cases where the agent seemed …

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CopilotKit Releases CLiF: A Continual Learning Platform That Turns Agent Traces and User Actions into Skills, Evals, and Fine-Tuning Data

Introduction Teams shipping AI agents at scale keep running into the same pattern. Even agents built on top-tier models like Fable and Astra struggle to carry out complex, end-to-…

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openKylin Outlines Its Vision for Reimagining Linux in the AI Era at Open Source Summit Europe 2026

At Open Source Summit Europe 2026, openKylin outlined its vision for transitioning from resource management to intent management in the AI era. The community introduced KART, a un…

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FSB Says Banks Need to Have Company-Wide AI Regulation - PYMNTS.com

FSB Says Banks Need to Have Company-Wide AI Regulation  PYMNTS.com

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MHRA sets out AI regulation plans in new 2030 strategy - Home | Digital Health

MHRA sets out AI regulation plans in new 2030 strategy  Home | Digital Health

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The Download: reviving frozen pig kidneys and boosting nuclear power

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Pig kidneys that were “frozen” for a year…

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Local insurers go solo amid AI policy vacuum - ITWeb

Local insurers go solo amid AI policy vacuum  ITWeb

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How much more can nuclear power plants give?

In this age of rising electricity demand, people are trying to squeeze every last bit of power out of every power plant possible. Over the past few weeks, there’s been big news ab…

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Anthropic's Q3 revenue hits $16.8B but growth slows ahead of planned November IPO

Anthropic hit $16.8 billion in third-quarter revenue, a 45 percent gain that still falls far short of Q2's 140 percent surge. With a November IPO approaching, some investors now e…

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Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind

Have you ever thought about what makes you you? Science assures us it has everything to do with the three-pound organ between our ears, with its billions of neurons and trillions …

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Pig kidneys that were “frozen” for a year have been brought back to life

Pig kidneys that were cooled to -150 °C and stored in a freezer for months have been successfully rewarmed and shown to work again for the first time, say scientists. They hope to…

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TypeSafe AI Releases Jev 1.14 With Images, Box Type and 262k Context

TypeSafe AI released Jev 1.14 under the jev-preview alias. The System One model adds experimental image input, a Box bounding-box type and an opt-in 262k-token context, at $0.042 …

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Meet Grok Voice 3.0: SpaceXAI Voice Agent Model Ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis

SpaceXAI just released Grok Voice 3.0. Grok Voice 3.0 is a SpaceXAI speech-to-speech model that listens, reasons, calls tools and speaks. It now ranks first on the Artificial Anal…

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Palm Desert AI Policy Keeps Humans Accountable for Decisions - NBC Palm Springs

Palm Desert AI Policy Keeps Humans Accountable for Decisions  NBC Palm Springs

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What role should the government play in AI regulation? - Fox Business

What role should the government play in AI regulation?  Fox Business

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Datalab Releases OmniParseBench: An Open OCR Benchmark With 16,288 Pass/Fail Tests to Audit OCR Parsers

Datalab released OmniParseBench, an open OCR benchmark with 16,288 yes/no tests on 2,937 pages in 92 languages. Every score is a pass rate you can slice by tag, script or language…

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Fish Audio Releases Drama 3, a 35B Open-Weight MoE Text-to-Speech Model

Fish Audio released Drama 3, a 35B mixture-of-experts text-to-speech model with about 3B active parameters. It takes plain-language direction, covers 83 languages and ships open w…

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Vista Irrigation District adopts AI policy - The Coast News

Vista Irrigation District adopts AI policy  The Coast News

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Newsweek webinar: How the politics of AI could shape the midterms - Newsweek

Newsweek webinar: How the politics of AI could shape the midterms  Newsweek

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Most New York school districts don't have an AI policy - NCPR: North Country Public Radio

Most New York school districts don't have an AI policy  NCPR: North Country Public Radio

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Government backs light-touch approach to AI regulation - RNZ

Government backs light-touch approach to AI regulation  RNZ

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Google says self-improving AI isn't anywhere close

Google engineer Haydn Belfield says there's no measurable acceleration of AI research driven by AI at Deepmind. AI now writes more than 75 percent of production code, but 88 perce…