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Legal software vendor Aderant says a Lambda-and-Nova Lite workflow triaged 109 support tickets at roughly 96% routing accuracy for under $30 a month. The sample is small, but the design is instructive.
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A clear walk through how large language models are built and trained, from next-token prediction to instruction tuning, and why they seem to reason but still fail.
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A new book from MIT's Senseable City Lab argues computer vision can turn street imagery into urban data at scale, while warning about surveillance creep and models that inherit cultural bias.
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Neurosoft Bioelectronics has joined Mila's industry network to build foundation models for brain recordings. The hard part, both sides concede, is that neural data is far scarcer than text.
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Google says its Beam telepresence system now ships in six countries with 18 channel partners, HP hardware and a pay-per-use network inside Industrious coworking sites starting in October.
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Anthropic says ~950 Claude agents combed DNA databases for 21 hours and flagged a previously uncharacterized reverse transcriptase system. The function is still unknown, and the work is a preprint.
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Google DeepMind says its Private AI Compute platform will add persistent server-side memory sealed by device-held keys, plus a public record of server software for verification.
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OpenAI says its Academy has run 250-plus events and reached more than 4 million people in two years. Now it's piloting a trainer program to push instruction out to partner organizations.
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MIT says David Siegel will spend 2026-27 with the Schwarzman College of Computing exploring how AI can speed scientific discovery. The announcement is long on pedigree and short on deliverables.
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Google DeepMind's two new text-to-speech models add prompt-built custom voices, 30-second voice replication and line-by-line performance direction — with pricing and latency undisclosed.
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OpenAI says it will give Ukraine's government access to Daybreak, its AI program for security defenders, extending a push that already covers ENISA, CERT Polska and others in Europe.
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OpenAI's CEO used a Security Council appearance to call for shared frontier AI standards, incident reporting and human oversight — and to claim a model solved a Millennium Prize Problem.
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