2101 stories tagged AI · page 3 of 88
China's Ministry of Commerce has proposed draft export controls on AI models with over 100 billion parameters and advanced chip designs, aiming to safeguard national security and technological sovereignty.
Remek released Basal-Omni 1.0 Ultra, a 31-billion-parameter open-weight AI model that achieved the top spot on the JevBench benchmark for decision-making tasks, outperforming other state-of-the-art models.
Hugging Face released Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open model that anyone can download, customize, and deploy. Unlike most large models controlled by a few companies, Beam is designed to be owned and scaled by users, making advanced AI more accessible.
Researchers propose VISTA, a training-free method that automatically selects when to apply Sequential Monte Carlo guidance during discrete diffusion, reducing computational costs without sacrificing image quality.
Oracle uses ChatGPT Work and Codex to automate specialist workflows across recruiting, engineering, and operations, reducing task completion times from days to minutes.
NVIDIA has released a 100-billion-parameter AI model trained on 2.8 trillion tokens of Indic languages. The model and its open-source data generation pipeline are available on Hugging Face, making advanced AI more accessible for these languages.
Itaú, Brazil's largest private bank, has launched ia.i, a conversational AI interface powered by OpenAI, and the IARA governance platform to deploy generative AI across its entire customer and employee base in a highly regulated financial sector.
Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, is using OpenAI's AI models to detect security threats faster and propose fixes in minutes. This could make digital transactions safer for everyone.
Researchers introduced AlphaDiana, a measurement system for evaluating AI agents by tracking their reasoning, behavior, and resource use. It provides modular interfaces for datasets, agents, environments, and scorers to analyze how different execution conditions affect outcomes.
Sullivan & Cromwell, a top international law firm, partnered with OpenAI to create Agreement Analyzer, an AI tool that helps lawyers identify issues in draft agreements. The tool uses advanced language models to detect inconsistencies and missing clauses, streamlining the legal review process.
OpenAI is offering free access to GPT-Rosalind, a specialized AI model for life sciences, to eligible academic research labs. This initiative aims to accelerate scientific discovery in fields like biology and medicine.
A developer released a proof-of-concept deterministic guardrail tool for AI agents that blocks or allows commands based on predefined rules, aiming to prevent unintended 'tragedies' such as an agent running 'terraform destroy.' The tool is not a hardened sandbox and can be bypassed by a capable person or process.
A new ArXiv study proposes analyzing detailed transcripts of AI interactions to assess model capabilities after standard benchmarks reach near-perfect scores. This method could help evaluate AI safety and inform policy even when traditional benchmarks can no longer differentiate between models.
Meta has released Muse Spark Open, a powerful open-weight multimodal AI model that can process text, images, and audio. The model is freely available for anyone to use, modify, and distribute.
Google has released Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier model designed to tackle the most challenging problems in science, enterprise, and everyday life. It's now available to developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers.
Researchers introduced APRiL, an open-ended benchmark that evaluates how well large language models understand social cues in Chinese, including implicit communication, mental state inference, and conflict resolution across diverse contexts.
Third Moment Research ran 10,000 AI agents continuously for over 36 hours using OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol models, along with Codex and Daybreak for cybersecurity. The agents improved with use, demonstrating long-duration autonomous operation.
SentinelOne has partnered with OpenAI to use the Daybreak AI model to speed up malware analysis. This reduces the time needed to analyze threats from weeks to just hours, allowing for faster response times and increased capacity to investigate more threats.
Scimplify has raised $25 million to use AI for discovering and processing critical minerals, tripling its annualized revenue run rate to $200 million. The company aims to reduce global reliance on China for these essential resources and plans to expand in the U.S.
Microsoft researchers have developed a cost-effective machine learning tool that improves weather forecast accuracy for the two to six-week range, a period where traditional physics-based and AI models typically become unreliable. The tool benefits farmers, emergency responders, and other industries reliant on long-term predictions.
McKinsey & Company is introducing a 10-minute AI client simulation for some entry-level job interviews. The AI is designed to reflect 80% of real-world consulting scenarios, testing candidates' communication and problem-solving skills.
Anthropic has identified a potential risk where small AI models, called "small weight-based replicators," could self-replicate across IoT devices, creating a new type of computer worm that exploits limited security on smart home and industrial hardware.
Researchers have developed MegaTrain, a method to train a 100-billion-parameter AI model on a single NVIDIA H100 GPU, potentially democratizing AI development by drastically reducing hardware requirements.
Shopify announced it will let shoppers configure AI agents to browse and purchase from over one billion listings, expanding its agentic commerce strategy.