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Broad artificial intelligence coverage.
Europe's public broadcasters want AI agents in the newsroom without handing over control of their data or editorial judgment. NVIDIA is happy to help write the rules, and sell the hardware.
Disney is set to walk away with Character.AI's people and much of its technology while the lawsuits and state investigations stay behind in a bankrupt shell. We think that deserves a hard look.
MiniMax is pricing a 428-billion-parameter agentic model at Flash-tier rates and promising open weights soon. The price is real today; the benchmark crown is still self-reported.
MIT researchers left Claude agents alone on a virtual island, and they invented games that seemed to make them better at later tasks. Whether that's play or imitation matters less than what it taught them.
Mistral's first forecasting models are small, run on ordinary CPUs and carry a permissive license. The leaderboard wins are thin, but the practical package is the real story.
Anthropic is setting aside 5% of its stock for the public good, possibly including cash for workers AI displaces. The money is real; the rules for spending it are not written yet.
Anthropic has moved six outside safety evaluators into its office with near-insider access and a right to publish. It is the most serious oversight experiment yet, and still a voluntary one.
Meta lets its adults-only Muse agent sext with users while the human performers who make adult content keep fighting restrictions on Instagram. That gap is the story.
NVIDIA's new Structured Data Models library makes table predictions without a training step, and a hands-on walkthrough shows the real risk lives in quiet defaults, not the models.
Meta pulled a terms clause that experts read as a license to scrape business accounts' websites for AI training. The retreat is welcome, but how it showed up matters more.
RTX Spark laptops are finally on shelves, and NVIDIA threw a world tour of parties to prove it. The real test starts once the confetti is swept up and owners start using them.
Kyutai's REKI shows a small robot model trained only on public data can remember what it just saw for almost no extra cost, and that memory stops arms from dithering.