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Researchers at New York University Tandon have introduced ScaFi, a biomimetic robotic fish designed to move like a real fish. Its body can expand or contract on demand, enabling exploration across aquatic environments with different depths and scales.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 8d ago
Meta has revealed Muse, an AI agent designed to perform tasks autonomously on a user’s behalf. Its described capabilities include shopping, sending emails, and planning trips.
Engadget · 8d ago
Meta is promoting Muse as a personal AI agent that can handle everyday tasks such as shopping, email, and trip planning. The move is part of a multibillion-dollar strategy to strengthen Meta’s position against OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
The Verge · 8d ago
Meta Platforms unveiled Muse, an AI agent designed to complete tasks on users’ behalf and help with personal organization. The announcement advances Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of personalized AI assistants for everyone.
Bloomberg Technology · 8d ago
enso is presented as an emerging company in agentic go-to-market, applying AI agents to growth-marketing workflows. The article places it in the broader evolution of growth hacking, from scrappy internet tactics to more automated approaches.
The Next Web (TNW) · 8d ago
Reid Hoffman is joining London-based seed and Series A investor Mosaic Ventures as an advisory partner. He is expected to provide Silicon Valley connections involving talent, companies, and capital, as Mosaic makes AI in Europe its sole investment focus.
The Next Web (TNW) · 8d ago
AI-driven demand is contributing to a sharp rise in storage prices, affecting both SSDs and HDDs. Although SSDs remain preferable in many cases, HDDs may now be more practical for cost-sensitive, high-capacity storage.
Engadget · 8d ago
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports feature-level writes through the new UpdateRecord API. Developers can update one or more feature values without reading or rewriting the entire record, across both online store tiers.
AWS Machine Learning Blog · 8d ago
Qualcomm has granted Amazon warrants for more than 25 million shares valued at about $4 billion, tied to commercial milestones and up to $60 billion in server-chip purchases. The arrangement accompanies a multi-generation deal for Qualcomm to develop custom silicon for AWS.
The Next Web (TNW) · 8d ago
Apple and Google missed a UK deadline to block child nudity on their phones. The UK government plans legislation imposing fines and potential criminal liability, with similar measures possibly extending to Snapchat and Instagram.
Wired · 8d ago
AI coding assistants now use convention files, repository maps, memory banks, and other tools to stay grounded in codebases. The article examines how a similar portable personal context layer could extend AI assistance to areas such as health and finances.
The Next Web (TNW) · 8d ago
Healthcare automation startup Forus has raised $150 million at a $3 billion valuation, tripling its value within months of its previous funding round. Its AI agents help patients and doctors navigate insurance, affordability, and drug fulfillment, with the new capital supporting expansion into oncology and neurology.
Bloomberg Technology · 8d ago
Amazon's expanded relationship with Qualcomm could give the company another source of custom AI chips and reduce its reliance on Nvidia. The deal may also give Qualcomm greater confidence to invest in chip-production capacity, while raising questions about circular financing in the AI boom.
Bloomberg Technology · 8d ago
Google has updated its AI weather model, improving forecast accuracy. Like traditional weather models, the system benefits from incorporating a broader set of input data.
Ars Technica AI · 8d ago
African Languages Lab has spent years building datasets for underrepresented African languages. Its Mansa AI platform now supports 30 languages in production, with a long-term goal of reaching 1,000.
TechCabal · 8d ago
OpenAI reportedly claims it has solved the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s Millennium Prize Problems. The announcement has been reported by The New York Times and linked to an official OpenAI post, though the supplied article does not include the proof’s technical details or independent verification.
Reddit r/MachineLearning · 8d ago
AI coding startup Cognition AI has raised $2 billion in a new funding round. The investment values the company at $48 billion.
Bloomberg Technology · 8d ago
A new expanded class-action lawsuit alleges Anthropic deceptively advertised the usage limits of its Claude Max subscription. The case was filed by attorneys Monica Vaca and Kati Daffan, both former Federal Trade Commission officials.
The Verge · 8d ago
DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a petabyte-scale dataset of precomputed predictions covering all 9 billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome. The resource is free for academic use, with validations from UK Biobank whole-genome data and the Broad Institute; commercial access will be available through Google Cloud.
The Next Web (TNW) · 8d ago
LangChain introduces context modes in deepagents to give subagents more control over how they receive information. Subagents can either fork the supervisor’s context or start with an isolated context for more focused, efficient multi-agent workflows.
LangChain Blog · 8d ago
The article proposes research directions for using probes to help AI systems generalize behavioral judgments from easy cases to harder domains. It explores weak supervision, teaching new skills, retraining probes as concepts evolve, runtime behavioral modulation, and alignment failures inspired by the brain.
AI Alignment Forum · 8d ago
Part 2 extends the MLflow and Amazon SageMaker AI Model Registry synchronization pattern to cross-account governance. It presents a hub-and-spoke architecture using AWS RAM and a hybrid approach that preserves development-account isolation.
AWS Machine Learning Blog · 9d ago
Global PC shipments are declining, yet major manufacturers are reporting higher revenue. AI infrastructure demand is contributing to a memory-chip shortage, pushing up system prices and making more expensive AI PCs a key revenue driver.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 9d ago
Threads is upgrading its in-app analytics with AI summaries and more contextual information about post performance. However, the updated insights still do not provide link-click data.
Engadget · 9d ago
An MIT researcher uses GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex to autonomously run quantum computing experiments. The system also analyzes experimental results and calibrates qubits.
OpenAI News · 9d ago
OpenAI announced what it described as a landmark discovery in mathematics. The announcement has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety from some academics.
Wired AI · 9d ago
Qwen Code v0.23.1 adds workflow management, live subagent status, session navigation, workspace-scoped Skills, and improved IPC controls. It also retires the @qwen-code/webui package, making this a feature-rich but potentially breaking release.
Qwen (GitHub Releases: qwen-code) · 9d ago
NextEra Energy has secured a $1.9 billion U.S. Department of Energy loan to refurbish Iowa’s Duane Arnold Energy Center.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 9d ago
Qualcomm announced a data-center infrastructure partnership with Amazon Web Services as it seeks to challenge Nvidia in the AI market. Qualcomm shares rose 4% following the announcement.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 9d ago
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations can be integrated into GitHub Actions to test AI agents continuously. The workflow deploys an agent and OAuth-protected MCP server, scores responses, and blocks pull requests when behavior regresses.
AWS Machine Learning Blog · 9d ago