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Pentagon official Emil Michael sold his Perplexity holdings for between $5 million and $25 million, according to federal financial disclosures. The sale follows earlier profits of up to $24 million from his investment in Elon Musk’s xAI, raising questions about conflicts of interest in military AI oversight.
The Guardian Technology · 17d ago
EvoUndo is a framework for verifying and repairing whether LLM-generated modifications to agent harnesses can be safely reversed across counterfactual states. In 600 unseen tasks, richer recovery semantics and exact state-address grounding substantially improved oracle recovery, though a negative interaction on gpt-oss-120b was model-dependent.
Reddit r/MachineLearning · 17d ago
Meta is migrating its internal communications from Google Chat to Slack, according to a memo from AI chief Alexandr Wang. The company says Slack provides a stronger environment for deploying and using AI agents.
The Next Web (TNW) · 17d ago
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 for general availability and Claude Mythos 5.1 for restricted cybersecurity and life-sciences programs. The release combines reported gains on agentic benchmarks with a 75% reduction in Fable cached-context read costs and Enterprise Frontier Safeguards for customer-controlled monitoring.
VentureBeat · 17d ago
Anthropic has agreed to a $35 billion computing deal with Nvidia-backed cloud provider Lambda to expand its AI capacity. The update highlights the enormous infrastructure commitments required to scale advanced AI systems.
Bloomberg Technology · 17d ago
aimake is an incremental build system for AI and ML pipelines that tracks dependencies and fingerprints inputs by content instead of timestamps. It reuses unchanged stages such as datasets, embeddings, and indexes, while rebuilding only stale steps after prompt or configuration changes.
Reddit r/MachineLearning · 17d ago
JPMorgan Asset Management’s Stephanie Aliaga said the bond market can absorb the growing supply of hyperscaler debt. Strong demand for AI infrastructure is helping reassure investors that these companies can meet their obligations.
Bloomberg Technology · 17d ago
Microsoft will enable memory integrity protection by default on eligible Windows 11 devices starting in October 2026. The change is intended to strengthen kernel-level security as AI tools increasingly help identify operating-system vulnerabilities.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 17d ago
Toyota plans to introduce a Tesla Full Self-Driving rival on 2028 models, marketed as “Level 2++.” The system will use a neural network with an additional guardrail layer, while the driver remains legally responsible.
The Next Web (TNW) · 17d ago
Waymo has opened driverless rides in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa. Denver marks the company’s first commercial deployment in a city that experiences real snowfall, expanding its operating conditions.
The Next Web (TNW) · 17d ago
Anthropic is releasing Fable 5.1, a new version of its AI model that it says improves coding and science performance while reducing costs. The update responds to customer feedback and targets more economical model usage.
Bloomberg Technology · 17d ago
Google is expanding Find Hub so users can ask Gemini to remember where they placed important items, such as passports, without attaching a physical tracker. The Android feature drop also introduces Motion Assist, which uses moving screen dots to help reduce motion sickness.
The Verge · 17d ago
Google announced an Android Find Hub feature designed to help users remember where they placed important items. It also introduced a visual assistant for Gemini Live and integration with Google Keep through Messages.
Engadget · 17d ago
JPMorgan Asset Management strategist Stephanie Aliaga expects hyperscaler bond issuance to keep growing as Big Tech finances large AI infrastructure buildouts. She says the market is absorbing the new supply, while clearer evidence of AI returns could support continued spending.
Bloomberg Technology · 17d ago
Google DeepMind introduces agentic video understanding with Gemini. The update focuses on enabling Gemini to analyze and reason over video content through an agentic approach.
DeepMind Blog · 17d ago
AI datacentres are facing widespread opposition because of their noise, visual impact and heavy use of environmental resources. The article examines resistance to a proposed 5,200-square-metre facility in Brick Lane, east London, and questions who benefits financially from the expansion.
The Guardian Technology · 17d ago
ChatGPT Health now integrates with Epic, allowing clinicians to import patient data into the product. OpenAI said the integration provides read-only access to health records.
TechCrunch AI · 17d ago
Gautam Mukunda argues that major technology companies are poorly positioned to manage the risks created by AI and other platforms. The concern is reinforced by a proposed settlement requiring Meta to impose stricter restrictions on children’s use of Facebook and Instagram, while Bill Gates publicly warns about accelerating AI development.
Bloomberg Technology · 17d ago
Starman Holding is acquiring almost the entire GoPro business in a $285 million all-cash transaction that it describes as a merger. Under founder and CEO Nick Woodman, GoPro is repositioning itself as an American imaging and optical solutions company serving defense, government, robotics, and aerospace markets.
The Verge · 17d ago
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to purchase a fleet of Boston Dynamics robot dogs. The proposed spending is listed at $1 million to $2 million, and ICE says it does not intend to run a competitive procurement.
The Next Web (TNW) · 17d ago
ratctl is a static and dynamic auditing tool for detecting reward-hacking vulnerabilities in RLHF, RLAIF, and GRPO training environments. An audit of 112 real environments flagged 54 vulnerabilities with 100% precision and 78.3% recall.
Reddit r/MachineLearning · 17d ago
Sequoia-incubated startup Empirik has launched with $21 million in funding to predict IT infrastructure outages before they occur. The company aims to bring an AI-assisted workflow to infrastructure operations similar to Cursor’s impact on software engineering.
TechCrunch AI · 17d ago
Waymo robotaxi rides are now open to the public in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa. The expansion broadens public access to Waymo's autonomous transportation service.
Engadget · 17d ago
Visko has launched Orbis, a real-time AI video model capable of generating 4K video. Users can change prompts while the video stream continues running.
TestingCatalog · 17d ago
Franklin Templeton portfolio manager Sara Araghi says Nvidia is using its financial strength to support an AI ecosystem where demand and monetization remain strong. She argues that Nvidia’s backing may be necessary to sustain continued ecosystem growth.
Bloomberg Technology · 17d ago
Atos trained 400 engineers in agentic AI through a three-day AWS AI League event focused on hands-on development. Participants built multi-agent systems and gained practical experience moving from theory to delivery.
AWS Machine Learning Blog · 17d ago
Jamf built a real-time, per-user spend enforcement system for Amazon Bedrock as generative AI usage expanded. The architecture combines IAM Customer Managed Policies, an Amazon Athena cost view, and a serverless AWS Lambda control loop to apply tiered model limits.
AWS Machine Learning Blog · 17d ago
John Deere is testing JD, an AI assistant that answers farming questions using farmers’ own field, machine, and operational data. The Early Access Program covers topics such as equipment settings, fuel usage, historical trends, and harvest timing, while John Deere says its Farmer Data Commitment prohibits selling the data.
The Verge · 17d ago
Google launched Google Pics, a creative design suite for Workspace users that combines image editing and generation with Gemini and the Nano Banana model. The tool lets users select specific objects or text and describe targeted changes, aiming to make business imagery more controllable and professional.
The Verge · 17d ago
Google is bringing its Pics image editor to subscribers of its AI Pro and AI Ultra plans. The move expands access to Google's image-editing tools within its paid AI subscription tiers.
Engadget · 17d ago