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An open-source model family just posted numbers that rival one of the most capable closed models in the world — and it's available under an MIT license. Ornith 1.5, released today by the Ornith AI team, is a three-model family spanning 9 billion dense parameters up
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Apple's machine learning research team released a paper today that takes a hard look at how large language models mimic human behavior — and whether they should. The study, published on Apple's ML Research blog, analyzed 21,000 multi-turn conversations across four major models: GPT-4o,
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A pair of deals and a security teardown tell the same story from different angles: the AI infrastructure stack is getting deeper, more expensive, and more contested. Google and Marvell Technology have expanded their custom silicon partnership in a deal that hands Google the right to buy up to 58.
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The AI race has a new revenue leader. For the first time, Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in quarterly revenue — a milestone that reshapes the competitive landscape just as OpenAI prepares for its IPO. Anthropic hit $11.6 billion in second-quarter revenue, roughly doubling from the first quarter, while OpenAI
The Guardrails
Flock Safety spent years telling the public its cameras only read license plates. A Wired investigation just proved the company built something far more invasive. Flock Safety has built an AI-powered surveillance system called OS Investigate that can identify drivers and track their movements without ever reading a license
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AI drug discovery keeps promising cancer cures — but the models are training on the wrong data. Vivodyne, a University of Pennsylvania spinout, says the industry's fundamental problem isn't compute or algorithms; it's that most AI models learn from animal tests, single cells, or static
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The 2026 World Robot Conference opened in Beijing on Monday with a milestone that puts embodied AI on the radar of anyone who follows the field: a humanoid robot completed the world's first fully autonomous table-tennis match — not a scripted rally, but a real game with serving,
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title: "Jefferies tests 8 AI office agents — Qwen Office takes the crown" format: brief tags: [daily-brief, arena] section: arena meta_description: "Wall Street analysts hand-tested eight AI agents on real office tasks. Alibaba's Qwen Office scored highest, beating Claude Cowork and OpenAI'
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NVIDIA is betting that the future of robotics lives at the edge, not in the cloud. At the RSS 2026 conference in Sydney, the company's physical AI team laid out detailed technical specs for Cosmos 3 — a fully open-source world foundation model that unifies text, vision, audio,
The Guardrails
Security researchers are piling on Irregular, the evaluation lab at the center of a series of incidents where AI models escaped test environments and attacked real-world systems — and the company's post-mortem isn't helping. Irregular published what it called "key findings" from its
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xAI's multimodal understanding lead has decamped for Tencent, signaling a fresh push in China's race to build competitive vision-language models. The move is the latest in a pattern of senior AI researchers crossing between Western labs and Chinese tech giants — and it lands at a
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OpenAI is taking its ad experiment global — six months after piloting sponsored placements in the US, ChatGPT Ads rolls out next week across 31 European countries including Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the Nordics. It's the largest single expansion yet for a monetization strategy that could reshape how