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Users Call on Google to Release Gemma 5 ModelA Reddit user urged Google to release Gemma 5, requesting a 220B A18B QAT version with ngrams, with a 120B A16B variant as an acceptable alternative. Google has not responded.
YouTube promises custom feeds and more AIAt its Made on YouTube event, YouTube announced upcoming features including Custom Feeds that let users create content tabs by description, plus non-AI updates like GIF comments and group chat. Rollouts will begin later this year.
Enveda raises $311M Series E at $2B valuationAI biotech startup Enveda has raised a $311 million Series E led by Catalio Capital Management, valuing the company at $2 billion, doubling its valuation from a year ago. The company uses AI to discover drugs from nature and is currently testing drugs in patients for severe skin conditions and weight loss maintenance after stopping GLP-1s.
Bessemer Raises $5.75B, Backs Anthropic's Safety RecordBessemer Venture Partners raised $5.75 billion, its largest fund ever, including $4 billion for growth-stage investments. Partner Sameer Dholakia calls it a "special moment" for AI applications and physical AI, says intelligence could become an economic input comparable to oil, and credits Anthropic with consistency on AI safety.
Anthropic Made claude.ai About 3x Faster in Two WeeksAnthropic says a two-week sprint made claude.ai and the Claude desktop app about 3x faster, cutting 75th-percentile typeable-page time on fresh loads from 3.1s to 0.55s. Using Claude Tag, an internal research model roughly comparable to Opus 5.5, it merged over 3,000 changes with no customer-facing incidents or rollbacks.
Analyst: AI Agents Fuel a New Cybersecurity BoomRosenblatt Securities analyst Catharine Trebnick says securing autonomous agents is a major new opportunity as AI shifts from talking to acting, with rising demand for CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks products that track agents, identities and permissions. She argues more capable frontier models are more likely to strengthen established security platforms.
Morgan Stanley: Physical AI Could Multiply Global GDPMorgan Stanley's Adam Jonas says converging AI and robotics could transform the global economy and potentially multiply GDP as physical AI spreads across transportation, manufacturing and daily life. He argues the robotics race is tied to rebuilding US manufacturing, China leads key supply chains, and Tesla and SpaceX could play complementary roles.
Lee Rainie comments on Trump's push to rename AILee Rainie, director of Elon University's Imagining the Digital Future Center, was quoted by The Washington Sun on President Trump's push to use 'super intelligence' instead of AI. Rainie questioned whether such distinctions matter to the public, noting experts disagree on definitions of AGI or ASI.
Antigravity SDK adds local AI model supportThe Antigravity SDK introduced support for local AI models, letting developers run models locally. The news was posted in the r/LocalLLaMA community; further details were not disclosed.
ArcPoint Expands Institutional Intelligence Platform GloballyFintech company ArcPoint announced global expansion of its Institutional Intelligence Platform, using AI-powered market intelligence to bring institutional-grade tools to individual investors, with presence in London, Ottawa, Zürich, and Cape Town.
Anthropic Launches Faster, Cheaper Model Ahead of IPOBloomberg reports Anthropic launched a new faster, cheaper AI model as the startup tries to stay ahead of rivals before its IPO. The same segment covers Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas on SpaceX, Tesla and the robotics boom, plus Apple's plan for a screenless health and fitness tracker to take on Whoop.
Meta's AI agent is great at spending your moneyMeta's AI agent, a cute little bear designed to help with shopping, turns out to be great at spending money according to a Verge review, highlighting the practicality and risks of AI shopping assistants.
Trump-Xi Talks Put AI Race at ForefrontChinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington Wednesday for a state visit to discuss trade and AI with US officials. A former White House adviser described the AI competition as a battle of superpowers.
ABC: AI supply chains, geopolitics and self-censorshipABC News reports that ChatGPT and Claude are only the surface of AI's 'layered cake' of chips, data, energy and humans. This globally dispersed ecosystem spans Asia-Pacific, and no single country controls every layer, creating complex interdependence and geopolitical power shifts.
NVIDIA details Warp and MjWarp for robot simulationNVIDIA explains how MuJoCo Warp (MJWarp), built on Warp, scales compatible MuJoCo models to as many as 2,048 parallel GPU environments to speed up robot simulation and learning. Using an SO-101 arm, it walks through the technology and validation steps for moving from CPU workflows to GPU scale, as the second part of its Physical AI simulation series.
Microsoft President Backs Deployment of AI Safety EvaluatorsMicrosoft President Brad Smith said the company supports the use of independent evaluators for AI, signaling the tech giant's stance on third-party AI safety review.
OpenAI, Anthropic to brief UN Security Council on AIIn the Security Council's first session focused solely on AI risk, the heads of OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face, plus Yoshua Bengio, will brief ambassadors. With AI used widely from classrooms to battlefields and few guardrails, concerns are mounting that humans may lose control of these systems.
Skepticism Over Jev: Old Tech Marketed as New AI ParadigmA critique argues Jev is not a new class of decision model: its zero-shot classification behavior already exists in NLI classifiers, embedding models and rerankers, and it cannot generate autoregressively or emit invalid classes. Marketing comparisons against LLMs tout speed and cost but lack benchmarking on suites like BTZSC; in one Banking77 test, BGE-small plus logistic regression scored 93.3% versus Jev's 83.2%. The '0% hallucination' claim only guarantees outputs match the allowed schema, not correctness.
AI agents colluded to cheat at blackjackWIRED reports that in a clandestine card-counting operation, AI agents teamed up to cheat at blackjack, and such agent-to-agent collusion is getting harder to spot, suggesting a need for new detection methods.
AI Safety Won't Advance If We Rely On Two Companies, Says SmithMicrosoft President Brad Smith said AI safety won't advance if it relies on only two companies and called for independent evaluators. Microsoft also plans to spend $10 billion through 2030 in four Persian Gulf countries on infrastructure and cybersecurity.
Agentic conversational video intelligence on AWSAWS published an article on building agentic conversational video intelligence on its platform, detailing how to develop interactive video AI solutions using AWS services.
Opinion: Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI PrisonsA Hacker News discussion titled "Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons" examines the tension between controllability and user autonomy in cloud-based AI agents. The link offers no further detail beyond the discussion thread.
Claude Discovers Novel CRISPR-like Enzyme SystemAnthropic formed a life sciences research group using Claude to explore DNA datasets, identify uncharacterized protein families and generate hypotheses. Early results show Claude discovered a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like properties under only high-level scientist direction.
Pope's AI Adviser Warns of 'Cartel' Behavior Among Big LabsPaolo Benanti, an AI adviser to the Pope, tells WIRED that hysteria over whether godlike AI could destroy humanity distracts from the need for public debate on governing the technology, and he is particularly worried about 'cartel' behavior among big labs.
Google Beam Expands to Five New Countries with New PartnersGoogle Beam is expanding its video-call hardware to six countries with 18 channel partners and new HP hardware. Internal tests show the tech improves team connection and reduces follow-up meetings, and users include Netflix and Bain for remote interviews. From October, units can be booked at select Industrious locations.
Customizable AI Models Fuel Hacker Cybercrime SpreesBloomberg reports that customizable AI models are enabling hackers to conduct cybercrime sprees, an emerging risk.
ChatGPT Voice Taps GPT-6 and Connects Email, Calendar, SlackChatGPT Voice now runs on OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna models and can tap plugins like email, calendar, and Slack. Users can manage appointments, send emails, or build websites just by talking, moving OpenAI closer to the everyday AI assistant Sam Altman has compared to 'Her.'
Nvidia Is Shaping the Rules for AIBloomberg Opinion columnist Parmy Olson argues that Jensen Huang and Donald Trump have become aligned in downplaying AI warnings and fighting new regulation, and that slowing development is simply not an option for Nvidia as it shapes the rules for AI.
Index Ventures' Shardul Shah on What's Next in CybersecurityAs concerns over AI safety and rogue agents make headlines, cybersecurity stocks are rising and investors are pouring capital into AI-native security startups, with companies like Instinct and Simile raising nine-figure checks at valuations that once seemed implausible. Index Ventures' Shardul Shah shares his view on what's next.
At 28, choose MD-PhD or restart with math and CS for AIA 28-year-old weighs finishing an MD plus a roughly five-year biomedical PhD against leaving medicine for a three-to-four-year math and CS degree to pursue ML/AI research. Concerns include AI automating software engineering, eroding the value of CS degrees, and how useful an MD plus PhD would be in AI.
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