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Microsoft AI announces MAI-Thinking-1 and MAI-Code-1-Flash, claiming they outperform Claude on coding and reasoning benchmarks

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Google releases Gemma 4 12B, a unified open multimodal model that outperforms the larger Gemma 3 27BIt powers a new macOS app for local audio transcription.

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Town exits beta and raises $55 million Series A led by a16z for its administrative AI assistantThe assistant requires explicit user approval before executing workflows

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Google releases Gemma 4 12B and 26B, which beat the larger Gemma 3 27B on GPQA and coding benchmarksThe 12B variant features a novel, memory-efficient architecture.

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Ideogram Releases 4.0 Open Image Model With Downloadable Weights

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TownAI Launches Out Of Beta With $55M A16z-Led Series A

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Ramp Launches Stack AI Operating System for Accounting Firms

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Viral Video Mocks Generic AI Business Voiceover Scripts

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Lassie Raises $47M Led By A16z To Automate Doctor Offices With AI

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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Discusses AI Spending, Autonomous Vehicles, and Super App Plans

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Google Unveils Gemma 4 12B Multimodal Model With Unified Architecture

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Monako Glass Launches As World's First Wearable Linux Computer

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Perplexity Brings Personal Computer AI Agent to Windows

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Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla's VP of AI Software, announces the launch of unsupervised Robotaxi service in Austin, TexasVehicles operate without human oversight inside the geofenced territory.

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OpenAI's roon argues faster software and UIs are required to prevent Amdahl's law from bottlenecking rapid AI modelsGarry Tan asks if this will drive Rust adoption.

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Reinforcement learning system for in-hand cube reorientation on the WUJI Hand with full sim-to-real deployment

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Trains PPO policies for full-SO(3) in-hand cube reorientation on WUJI Hand1.0 in mjlab with GPU-batched MuJoCo physics and supplies a sim-to-real deployment bridge.

Omnimodal world models unifying reasoning and multimodal generation for physical AI

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Hosts omnimodal Mixture-of-Transformers models for joint text, vision, audio, and action generation and reasoning in Physical AI.

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TownAI exits beta, launching its Townie AI assistant alongside a $55 million Series A round led by a16zUsers can delegate tasks by CC'ing the assistant on emails

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Meta launches Meta Business Agent globally on WhatsApp and Instagram to automate customer service, scheduling, and salesThe rollout follows a two-year pilot in select countries.

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AI commentator Andrew Curran speculates that "Mercury-Alpha" is GPT-5.6, sparking unverified release rumorsNo model developers have confirmed the rumored project.

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CMU's Jing Yu Koh releases MACU, a multi-agent computer use framework that coordinates sub-agents via dynamic dependency graphsIt runs up to 1.5x faster on long-horizon tasks.

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Sophia Yang, Head of Developer Relations at Mistral AI, wins GTM10 Award for developer ecosystem partnershipsShe was featured on a Times Square Nasdaq billboard.

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Reports claim Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has raised $7 billion in new fundingAI safety researcher Miles Brundage analyzed the reported round.

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TU Darmstadt's Georgia Chalvatzaki argues physical contact makes robot action spaces complex, while Jon Barron defends end-to-end image-to-action learningBarron argues image-to-action pipelines bypass intermediate 3D reconstructions.

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Microsoft AI announces MAI-Thinking-1 and MAI-Code-1-Flash, claiming they outperform Claude on coding and reasoning benchmarksMAI-Code-1-Flash will integrate exclusively inside GitHub Copilot.

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OpenAI launches Sites to turn Codex plain-text instructions into hosted, interactive web applicationsThe feature is rolling out to ChatGPT Enterprise plans.

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President Trump signs executive order establishing NSA-led benchmarking and a voluntary 30-day pre-release review for frontier AI modelsThe window was reduced from an earlier 90-day proposal.

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Ai2 post-training lead Nathan Lambert, who led development of OLMo and Tulu, is leaving the research instituteHe plans to continue working on open-source AI models.

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Factory launches Factory Router, an automated model routing system designed to cut AI inference costs by 25%The system dynamically routes tasks to smaller, cheaper models.

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Black Forest Labs names filmmaker Martin Scorsese as an official advisor to shape its FLUX image generation modelsScorsese has advised the startup since its founding.

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Microsoft Build slide plotting unreleased "Opus 4.6" and "Mythos" models sparks debate over leaked 2026 compute scalesAnalysts estimate the Mythos model utilized 6.1x10^27 FLOPs.

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Bill Lennon and Christy Shannon launch Ollie, an AI family assistant that coordinates schedules and household tasks via group chatsThe tool integrates with Instacart to automate grocery ordering

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Nous Research, co-founded by Hermes creator Teknium, releases Hermes Desktop in public preview for local agent workflowsThe Electron app supports inline tool calling and reasoning.

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Anthropic expands its Project Glasswing preview, giving 200 vetted organizations access to its exploit-generating Claude Mythos modelA general release is expected in two weeks.

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AI safety researcher David Dalrymple posts a joke parodying the verbose responses of a hypothetical Claude Opus 4.8 MaxThe parody model treats empty input as profound structure

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Cognition launches Devin Desktop, an agent-neutral environment built on Windsurf to orchestrate local and cloud AI agentsThe application supports third-party agents like Claude Code.

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Anthropic's Thariq Shihipar says the addition of workflows is Claude Code's most significant capability upgrade since skillsThe update expands the tool into non-technical operational tasks

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André Sc rediscovers a 10x Shor's algorithm optimization for secp256k1 signatures that Google Quantum AI withheld from publicationGoogle verified the original breakthrough using a zero-knowledge proof.

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Uber caps employee AI coding tool spending at $1,500 per month to responsibly guide agentic adoptionThe company-wide limit affects all generative AI developer tools

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Blinded study finds law professors prefer Gemini 2.5 Pro answers to human peer responses 75.33% of the timeAI was flagged harmful 3.53% of the time versus 12.06%.

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Open-source developer Daniel Han partners with Microsoft to bring Aion 1.0 local AI execution to Windows devicesThe partnership was announced at the Microsoft Build conference.

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H Company releases Holo 3.1, a local computer-use agent setting an AndroidWorld SOTA and 80% OSWorld accuracyLocal throughput reaches 568 tokens per second using NVFP4

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Asia-based AI safety lab Neo Research launches with an independent CBRN and cyber risk evaluation of DeepSeek v4 ProThe evaluation also assessed manipulation and loss of control risks.

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Special Raises A16z-Led Funding To Apply Doge Efficiency To Private Sector

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OpenAI's roon argues frontier labs struggle with PR because rapid AI progress is inherently unsettling, not due to bad messagingProfit-driven corporate reassurance fails to soothe underlying public anxiety.

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Investor Matt Shumer claims his AI agents consumed 330 billion tokens in 17 days, tripling OpenAI's top user benchmarkSpawned sub-agents generated 318.7 billion of those tokens.

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NeurIPS 2026 mandates that position papers must be substantially human-written, limiting AI assistance to minor copy-editingStony Brook's Tuhin Chakrabarty voiced support for the framework

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repeng creator Theia Vogel defends Claude Opus 4.8's disagreeable personality, suggesting dissatisfied users switch models rather than force complianceMeanwhile, users report conversational drift during extended sessions.

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OpenAI Codex surpasses 5 million weekly active users as non-developers adopt the tool three times faster than programmersNon-developers now make up one-fifth of Codex users.

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Microsoft integrates Peter Steinberger's OpenClaw platform into Windows and launches Project Solara hardware to run AI agentsThe dedicated hardware includes a vertical hub and companion screen.

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Satya Nadella claims Microsoft's Fairwater AI Superfactory uses closed-loop cooling to consume only a single restaurant's worth of water annuallyIt is reportedly Microsoft's most efficient data center design

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DeepMind's Rohin Shah argues catastrophic AI misalignment is unlikely and pre-deployment evaluations are the wrong focus for safetyHe also warns that public safety signaling diverts engineering resources

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Microsoft Unveils Surface RTX Spark Dev Box For Developers

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Paige Bailey, Google DeepMind DevX lead, integrates Stanford's open-source Pupper robot with Gemini Live and Robotics-ERThe custom 3D-printed quadruped runs on a Raspberry Pi.

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