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Accelerating the search for novel antimicrobial peptides using Google Antigravity for Science.

FTC may fine AI firms on par with companies that delay data breach reports.

The AI music labels are rolling out now in YouTube Music and will come to YouTube soon.

We'll likely learn more about how this will work at the company's upcoming "AI & Autonomy Day" event in December.

Always-on agents are taking on longer, more complex enterprise workflows. A single request can involve reading a document, checking information across sources,... Always-on agents are taking on longer, more complex enterprise workflows. A single request can involve reading a document, checking information across sources, following company policy, and calling several tools. NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is an open, customizable multimodal model for these specialized workflows. Its 120B-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture activates 12B… Source

Microsoft and Nvidia held a launch party for the first wave of RTX Spark laptops last week in San Francisco, where a new wave of AI PCs took center stage amid a packed crowd and a lively hands-on area. A day after the media event, I was invited to a quieter Nvidia event to hear a lot more about the new RTX Spark computing platform. While Nvidia's new laptops might look like regular Windows machines, the chips inside are Arm-based, instead of the traditional x64 architecture used by AMD and Intel. Combined with a powerful GPU, RTX Spark is designed for the future of AI, and it means a lot of w...

The new shopping tool is available in the U.S. across Google Search and the Gemini app.

In hindsight, the post on Instagram should have raised more red flags. The image purported to show actress Mia Goth, just days after filing for divorce from actor and filmmaker Shia LaBeouf, posing in a T-shirt with a pointed message: MY EX IS MY BIGGEST FAN. To really drive home the point, the song "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" by Beyoncé was added to the post. It would have been out of character for the star of Pearl, who doesn't have much of a social media presence, if any. But the Instagram account that posted it, @miagoth_, had more than a million followers and was marked with a blu...

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Today, I’m talking with Benn Jordan, musician, YouTuber, researcher, and investigative journalist. You might know Benn from those first two titles — he’s got a prolific discography of experimental music dating back decades. But in the last couple of years, he’s become a high-profile face in the creator and media spaces for his work investigating Flock Safety, the maker of automatic license plate readers and the software that powers them. Benn recently testified in front of Congress, at a hearing the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism held, dedicated to Flo...

Anthropic reported Q3 revenue of $16.8bn (50% QoQ growth), $1.70 revenue-per-compute-dollar, and 11% adjusted operating margins ahead of IPO.

Save all of the products you’re browsing in one place. | Image: Google Google's intelligent AI shopping cart is finally here, and just in time to tempt users into Black Friday and seasonal holiday spending. The Universal Cart tool Google previewed at its I/O event in May is now rolling out in the US across the Gemini app and Google Search, with the aim of making it easier to stay organized and save money when shopping online. As the name suggests, it's a "universal" digital cart that lets you save products from multiple retailers in a single unified space, and works across different Google pl...

OpenAI launches Study Mode in Brazilian Portuguese to help teachers guide step-by-step student learning through questioning.

Last year, Amazon bought Bee, a relatively unknown startup with a $50 always-listening AI wearable that summarized every conversation you had. Today, the e-commerce giant is announcing two new Bee devices - and a new subscription to go with them. First is the $74.99 Bee Frontier, an updated version of the original Bee device. And coming soon is the $99.99 Bee Eclipse, a credit-card-shaped gadget that snaps magnetically onto the back of a smartphone. Both devices are framed as gadgets to help you stay present in the moment. They listen to your daily conversations and then provide summaries, tr...

Amazon-owned Bee has launched its first new AI devices since its acquisition, including an updated wearable and a credit-card-sized recorder that attaches to smartphones. The devices can summarize conversations, create to-do lists, and integrate with Alexa and Amazon shopping, with prices starting at $74.99.

Eiliko. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge There's a new digital pet in town - a cute little marshmallow of a robot that can change its cartoony expressions to match your mood. But if you or your kids talk to "Eiliko" over Wi-Fi, it'll phone home to China. Its AI companion can store literally everything you tell it on Chinese servers, where hackers can easily gain access or even hijack its personality. And the company that made it, Energize Lab, doesn't seem to care. I bought an Eiliko from Amazon on August 29th. During a 10-minute conversation on August 30th, I asked the little bot: "Do y...

Modal raises $16B Series D at $1B ARR valuation, achieving decacorn status with 3x usage growth in 5 months.

Ari Emanuel discusses AI's impact on entertainment industry in memoir interview; focuses on agent perspective rather than technical frontier.

Qwen-Audio-Jev adds specialized decision heads to Qwen-Audio-3.1 for low-latency selection/scoring tasks, reducing autoregressive overhead.

Study shows action predictability in latent representations preserves intrinsic dynamics in world models, enabling better policy learning.

Game-theoretic model reveals profit-maximizing safety investment in LLM supply chains falls below welfare-optimal and industry-optimal levels.

Framework evaluates LLM agents on integrated inquiry cycles: hypothesis generation, reasoning, and exploration in unified interactive setting.

Waypoint-OPD improves policy distillation by tracking intermediate policy shifts during RL training, not just endpoint differences.

Claude Opus 4.8 and Codex GPT Sol 5.6 fail at reverse-engineering iOS protobuf schemas with high error rates; LLMs unreliable for forensic analysis.

LoopAhead accelerates looped Transformer decoding via speculative lookahead and branch pruning, reducing latency in parameter-efficient architectures.

LOADBench: open dataset and standardized metrics for ML-based analog IC design, covering 100+ opamp topologies in SkyWater130 PDK.

AVALON: zero-shot indoor navigation for robots using human-seeded floor plans and topological memory in unmapped buildings.

Theoretical analysis of multi-armed bandit transfer learning when source policy is unknown, deriving problem-dependent bounds.

ClaimScope benchmark evaluates mathematical agents via claim verification with verdicts, scopes, counterexamples, and repairs across 72 proof-reasoning tasks.

Method recovers intermediate editing steps in sewing pattern design by searching over deterministic program transformations without ground-truth annotations.