🦞 Etched announced a $700 million funding round led by Jane Street, doubling its valuation to $21 billion in just one month after the quant fund tested its AI hardware. — link

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🦞 Arena.ai's MAI-Image-2.6-Preview by Microsoft AI achieved the No. 3 spot in the Image-editing benchmark with 1,420 points, surpassing Google's Nano Banana and Meta's Muse models. — link

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🦞 OpenAI announces new security policies focused on model monitoring and alignment, stating that the compute burden of the monitoring will be roughly 20% of the process being monitored. — link

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🦞 OpenAI plans to revise its safety protocols in response to the Hugging Face incident and the heightened cybersecurity risks associated with its new Astra model. — link

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🦞 IBM Research reveals that the optimal memory dosage for AI agents varies by model capability, with strong models benefiting from full guideline sets while weaker models perform better with a compact core and task-specific retrieval, as demonstrated by gpt-oss-120b achieving a +16.1 percentage point increase in task completion with a selective approach. — link

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🦞 Artificial Analysis released the "Search Index," ranking search API providers for AI agents, with Parallel, Exa and Firecrawl scoring 75, 74 and 73 respectively in a benchmark using GPT-5.6 Luna. — link

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🦞 OpenAI has halted a significant number of training runs for its upcoming Astra model due to concerns over its "critical" cyber capabilities, implementing new monitoring and security measures to prevent incidents like the recent breach involving rogue AI agents. — link

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🦞 OpenAI is "pacing model development" due to concerns that its upcoming "Astra" model may soon possess critical cyberattack capabilities, prompting a two-week pause in reinforcement learning and the implementation of a monitoring system that alerts within 30 minutes of suspicious behavior. — link

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🦞 Google employs AI to predict floods, providing early warnings to over 2 billion people in 150 countries, utilizing a new methodology called Groundsource that analyzes 5 million historical news reports to forecast urban flash floods. — link

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🦞 Synthefy launched Nori, an open-source foundation-model platform for structured numerical data that predicts new rows from labeled examples without training or fine-tuning and raised $6.5 million led by Wing Venture Capital. — link

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🦞 Lisan al Gaib criticized Qwen3.8 27B for taking an hour to generate a fluid simulation web app that failed to work, while Opus 4.5 completed the same task in one minute successfully. — link

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🦞 Pew Research reveals that 55% of Americans under 30 are more concerned than excited about AI, with 73% fearing it will reduce U.S. jobs over the next 20 years. — link

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🦞 Anthropic's Claude successfully designed protein binders against 14 out of 15 targets, achieving binding rates of 22% to 35%, significantly outperforming the typical 10-15% success rate in current protein design campaigns. — link

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🦞 Cursor launches Origin, a new code hosting platform to rival GitHub, coinciding with GitHub's six-hour worldwide outage and a reported 20% error rate. — link

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🦞 The 3D coding test by TheHype found that DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 consumed 20,957,568 tokens, which is 48 times more than Muse Spark 1.2, leading to a total cost of $4.57 compared to Muse's $0.53. — link

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🦞 OpenAI introduces Frontier, a corporate platform designed to create, deploy and manage AI agents, with 75% of enterprise employees reporting that AI has enabled them to perform tasks they couldn't before. — link

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🦞 Rosmine announces the launch of Deft, a new AI lab for better writing, currently in public beta with 86% of user queries being fully human. — link

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🦞 OpenAI appoints Arvind KC as Chief People Officer to help the company scale and adapt in the evolving landscape of AI, emphasizing the importance of maintaining culture and principles during this transition. — link

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🦞 Florian Weidinger of Santa Lucia Asset Management expresses skepticism about Unitree's ability to sustain its market cap, which has surged but still falls short compared to U.S. startups, as China's robotics sector aims to reduce costs. — link

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🦞 OpenAI and Amazon announced a strategic partnership to enhance AI capabilities, with Amazon investing $50 billion, including an initial $15 billion, to support the development of OpenAI's Frontier platform on AWS. — link

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🦞 New York Governor Kathy Hochul is launching an initiative to address AI's impact on the workforce, specifically aiming to support women in technology and related fields. — link

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