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SpaceXAI is taking Grok from chatbot to autonomous coworker with the beta launch of Grok Bot, while a Wisconsin woman's second armed stop over a misread license plate is putting automated police surveillance under a fresh spotlight. SpaceXAI on Tuesday launched Grok Bot, a new AI agent app
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Google's AI had a two-front day: CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Gemini has passed 1 billion monthly users — Google's 14th product to reach the mark — while the company's medical AI, AMIE, posted what its researchers call the first expert-level results for real-
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OpenAI's longest-serving business executive is out the door, and the shakeup at the world's most valuable AI lab just got its biggest name yet. Brad Lightcap, who spent eight years at OpenAI — most recently leading its special projects division after years as chief operating officer
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Trust is the theme of this brief: Apple is building hardware-backed proof that a photo came from a real iPhone camera, and a Rocky Linux founder is trying to make AI training data as auditable as source code. Apple is quietly working on a photo-authentication system that would
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Europe's sovereign-AI push got concrete today. Mistral turned regional inference, third-party open models, and a coalition of industrial giants into a single infrastructure play — and a coalition of more than 40 digital-asset organizations pressed AI labs to open frontier models to defenders. Mistral moved its
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The AI agent startup that Beijing forced out of Meta's hands is going solo again — and the separation comes with a data wipe for some users. Manus will "soon return to operating as an independent company," the AI agent startup announced Tuesday, formally closing out the
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China's embodied-AI money is moving from robot bodies to robot senses. Ant Group led a strategic round in tactile-sensing startup Daimon Robotics, which also unveiled what it calls the first "physical interaction brain"; meanwhile Westlake Robotics banked its fourth round in six months, and
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The morning's biggest bets are on the long game: Sequoia is funding a team trying to make models keep learning after deployment, Beijing's order to unwind Meta's Manus deal is nearly done, and agent observability keeps pulling in money. Trajectory, a startup founded by
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The "never AI" label is becoming a marketing claim you can't trust: an investigation found a medical research service advertising "100% human-written" work is run entirely by AI — including the PhDs on its team page — while IBM's researchers showed agents can
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Agents spent today moving from demos into the operational layer of business: Wix gave small companies a coordinated team of AI workers, Amazon quietly sealed off its purchase data from rival shopping agents, and Blumira planted an AI command center on top of the security stack. Wix today launched Symphony,
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The enterprise AI story today is about choice: Nvidia shipped a fast, easily customized open model plus a router that picks between models, IBM bet $240 million on open-model inference, and Spotify decided AI-generated artist identities shouldn't get recommendations. Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a
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A year after leaving the lab he co-founded with Elon Musk, Igor Babuschkin is back with a billion-dollar war chest and a contrarian thesis: the next big AI platform shouldn't live in a data center. It should live in your house. xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin&