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Funded research opportunity advancing public health via AIOld Dominion University announced a funded research opportunity focused on advancing public health through artificial intelligence, inviting applications from relevant researchers and teams.
Apple CEO says iPhone is still the best AI deviceApple CEO John Ternus said the iPhone is the ideal 'intelligent personal hub' and currently the best AI device, emphasizing on‑device models for greater user privacy rather than building new dedicated AI hardware.
Procedural Graphs: Self-Evolving Execution StructuresA paper introduces Procedural Graphs, which structure procedural knowledge as (procedure, relation, procedure) triplets that self-evolve to improve LLM agents' long-horizon planning and tool use.
HN discussion: Is OpenAI taking everyone for fools?A Hacker News thread titled “Is OpenAI taking everyone for fools?” is circulating, prompting community debate and criticism of OpenAI’s actions and decisions.
Microsoft sets new AI privacy rules for schoolsMicrosoft agreed with the American Federation of Teachers and NYC UFT on ten contract-enforceable AI safety and privacy principles for schools, pledging not to train models on student or educator data, limit data collection, and plainly disclose how its tools work.
Webinar: AI and Labor/Employee RelationsJD Supra held a webinar on AI in labor and employee relations, outlining legal and compliance issues employers should know to manage risks and respond to policy changes.
Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation BoardPaul Christiano joined the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, bringing his experience in AI alignment, safety, and standards.
HN: OpenAI rogue agents used at least 10 more sitesHN reports that OpenAI 'rogue agents' were found used at at least 10 additional sites, broadening the scope of misuse and raising concerns about agent security and governance.
Defining AI Psychosis. Part 2: Prolific AI PsychosisJeff Clark defines “prolific AI psychosis” as producing large volumes of AI-generated output that add little real value, a distinct concern alongside true AI-related psychosis and parasocial AI dependence.
Superintelligence is coming—should we let it?TechCrunch's Equity podcast debated whether superintelligence is inevitable and controllable, noting safety incidents like OpenAI's Hugging Face breach highlight risks of more capable systems; guest Connor Leahy joined the discussion.
Report: Anthropic building predictive surveillance of activistsA report alleges Anthropic is building predictive surveillance of activists: job postings and interviews indicate monitoring protests and individuals near executives, pursuing 'pre‑crime' predictions and contracting with risk‑detection firm Samdesk.
NVIDIA brings real-time AI to IBC and expands SVDAt IBC, NVIDIA expanded its AI for Media suite and promoted the Synthetic Video Detector (SVD) microservice — reporting 99.3% accuracy on text‑to‑video and 97.7% on image‑to‑video — to help verify video authenticity and augment media workflows.
Americans use AI but favor human judgmentA report finds Americans increasingly use AI in daily contexts but prefer humans to make consequential decisions, which affects how AI is adopted in high-stakes domains.
Google DeepMind helps recreate a 70-year love storyGoogle DeepMind helped filmmakers create the short documentary 'Love, Rendered' by using AI to map a 70‑year‑married couple's current mannerisms onto younger images to reconstruct an unrecorded memory; similar photo restoration and colorization are available via the Gemini app.
Google Search adds new football featuresGoogle Search added football features including a mobile Live Game Feed with play-by-play updates, deeper player and league stats, and the ability to link fantasy football accounts for personalized recommendations, launching in US English with broader support coming.
Suggest distinguishing finetunes from major 'new model' postsA community member suggests distinguishing major 'new model' releases from smaller finetunes by tagging or prefixing finetune posts (e.g., '[Finetune]') so 'new model' is reserved for substantial pretrained or major updates.
AI clinical exam training improved medical students' performanceA report states AI-based clinical exam training significantly improved medical students' scores on standardized clinical exams, showing the potential of AI tutoring in medical education.
Improved AI Code Comment Detector Achieves 77%A rebuilt AI comment classifier trained on public data offers a web demo, achieves 77% balanced accuracy distinguishing human vs. machine comments, and provides feature activation views and calibrated probability outputs.
IBM releases Granite PatchTST-FM-r2IBM released Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 (~385M parameters) with an updated architecture, larger pretraining corpus, probabilistic forecasting and imputation; it ranks top among permissively licensed zero-shot replicable models on GIFT‑Eval (and #2 overall), and its weights and code are open under Apache 2.0/OpenMDW 1.0.
PVAMU awarded nearly $10 million for defense AIPrairie View A&M University was awarded nearly $10 million to advance artificial intelligence for national defense, supporting related research and capability development.
Instinct launches its own email addressesInstinct is issuing @instinct email addresses so its AI agent can create and manage accounts, contact businesses, and forward messages on users' behalf to reduce user intervention; the company is valued at $2.5B and addresses are available at mail.instinct.com.
Geiger lists AI agents and their reachGeiger released npx geiger-scan, a one-command, read-only tool that inventories AI agents, plugins, and credentials on a machine, reporting which can execute code, access files, or use the network without telemetry.
Ramp: AI spending per employee slipped in AugustRamp's data across 70,000 companies shows 56% paid for AI in August (up 0.4% month-over-month), while AI spend per employee in the top 1% fell nearly 10% to $7,205; a US Census survey reports 22% of businesses use AI.
HN thread: Is anyone still coding like 2021?A Hacker News poster asks if anyone still codes like in 2021; the author resists LLM-driven development, would rather change careers than manage agents, is currently unemployed, and worries the industry has shifted.
Do People Prefer AI-Written Stories?A Hacker News discussion asks whether people prefer stories written by AI; the post is a community thread without detailed conclusions or provided data.
User complains LM Studio download redirected to Bionic AgentA user complained LM Studio's site redirects downloads to its new Bionic Agent product, making it hard to find and download the original LM Studio and hurting goodwill.
Stealth Startup Claims to Solve Memory ShortageStealth startup Kepler Computing says a new chip‑design approach and a proprietary material can ease memory supply bottlenecks, potentially affecting memory prices and availability.
AI policy window: Act now for stronger safetyChris Lehane argues that while the policy window is open, policymakers should demand stronger safety evidence, shared standards, and durable regulations to address advancing AI capabilities.
Sequoia leads Cymphony in $30M funding roundSequoia and partners backed Cymphony with $30M (including a $25M Series A) valuing it above $100M; Cymphony builds a 'workforce graph' to show employee and AI-agent access to systems and data, and found about 85,000 files exposed to AI at one client.
Prime Video adds AI lip-sync for dubbed audioPrime Video introduced an AI lip-sync feature currently available for the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall, aiming to align actors' mouth movements with dubbed audio and expand to more titles.
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