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OpenAI and Sullivan & Cromwell Develop Agreement Analyzer ToolOpenAI partnered with law firm Sullivan & Cromwell to develop Agreement Analyzer, an AI tool that identifies issues in draft agreements. The move shows AI entering legal professional services.
Black Forest Labs releases FLUX.3 Image Klein, available day-one in DiffusersBlack Forest Labs released FLUX.3 Image Klein, an open image generation model, with day-one support in Diffusers. It unifies text-to-image, multi-reference image-to-image, and bounding-box layout control. The distilled checkpoint generates a 1024x1024 image in about 2 seconds on an H100. It offers NVFP4 and FP8 weights, LoRA training scripts, and ships as a Modular Diffusers pipeline.
Gudea uses AI to prevent social media crisesDescribing itself as a storm tracker for the internet, Gudea monitors how stories and rumors spread across social media and websites to help organizations spot brewing PR crises such as AI-generated misinformation, hate speech, or damaging rumors.
McKinsey adds AI client simulation to interviewsMcKinsey will have some entry-level candidates hold a 10-minute conversation with an AI client simulation covering about 80% of consulting scenarios, with humans in the room scoring the candidates.
Anthropic Revenue Jumps to $16.8B in Q3According to a Hacker News discussion, Anthropic's third-quarter revenue jumped to $16.8 billion, signaling rapid revenue growth for the AI company.
Anthropic Revenue Hits $16.8B Before IPOAnthropic told prospective investors its third-quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion as the AI company pushes ahead with plans to go public.
Study locates and removes LLM 'slop' styleA study identified a representation direction for assistant style (e.g., em dashes, 'not X but Y') in Qwen3-4B-Instruct, finding that SFT introduces rhetorical structures and DPO doubles the slop score through buzzwords and markdown. Fixed-vector subtraction or distillation into a LoRA cuts the slop score by 83%.
AI Data Center Buildout Faces Power BottlenecksAt the CAIS Summit, experts said AI data center expansion is hindered by power supply constraints, with grid connection waits extending from 6-12 months to 7 years and investments potentially reaching $1B.
Janus Henderson Goes Private, Boosts AI InvestmentJanus Henderson CEO said going private provides flexibility to invest in talent, AI technology, new products, and client service, free from quarterly earnings constraints.
Flock CEO says mics detect 'just gunshots,' site says otherwiseFlock CEO Garrett Langley said at TechCrunch Disrupt that its gunshot-detection microphones detect 'just gunshots,' but the company's website says the audio system can also identify car crashes, fireworks and street takeovers, drawing criticism from privacy advocates after earlier changes over detecting human voices.
House bill seeks cabinet-level oversight of AI, emerging tech threatsA U.S. House bill seeks to elevate oversight of AI and emerging technology threats to the cabinet level.
Denver Council Rejects AI Chatbot ContractDenver's City Council voted 9-3 against a five-year, $3.9 million contract extension with Citibot, putting the AI chatbot Sunny at risk; the mayor's office will seek a solution to keep it active.
Engineer Says Anthropic's Scion Heavily Borrows from MononokeThe creator of Meta's Mononoke says Anthropic's new version control system Scion closely copies its 'derived data' design, while Anthropic credited only Sapling for 'hard-won lessons' and omitted Mononoke; he says reusing open-source designs is fine but crediting prior art matters more than ever when LLMs assist design.
Arkansas AG Sues OpenAI Over ChatGPT SafetyArkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin sued OpenAI, alleging the company misled consumers about ChatGPT's safety, concealed risks, and violated laws including the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and children's privacy protections.
Apple to debut first AI features in China in DecemberApple plans to launch its AI platform in mainland China in December, after a lengthy regulatory delay kept its AI features out of a key market.
Columbia Law School launches AI @ CLS initiativeColumbia Law School Dean Daniel Abebe announced AI @ CLS, an initiative spanning new courses, AI-and-law scholarship and responsible AI use, following recent faculty hires and new AI-focused courses.
Google says self-improving AI is nowhere closeGoogle engineer Haydn Belfield says DeepMind data shows no measurable acceleration of AI research by AI, and self-improving AI is far off. AI writes over 75% of production code, yet 88% of changes still need human review; the in-house General Capability Index shows steady, not sudden, growth.
Google and Meta release frontier models, AI race reignitesGoogle and Meta unveiled frontier models within days of each other, claiming they can match the best from OpenAI and Anthropic, after both had appeared far behind. The race has reopened, with no longer just OpenAI and Anthropic out front.
Bank of America Hires 1,000 Contractors to Patch Flaws Exposed by Anthropic's MythosBank of America hired 1,000 contractors to patch software flaws exposed by Anthropic's Mythos.
alphaXiv research agents accused of undisclosed user data collectionalphaXiv's OpenResearch agents were found to send reports to the vendor without user knowledge, including quotes of user input. The feature is on by default and instructs not to mention the report to users. It was flagged by a code reviewer but ignored, and documentation was deleted.
Hotter-than-expected CPI fuels AI stock routA hotter-than-expected U.S. CPI report triggered a selloff in AI-related stocks, as inflation worries weigh on AI valuations.
Innodata vs. IONQ: revenue trends in AI and quantum computingInnodata supplies data engineering services for AI training to finance, insurance and tech clients, announced a CEO transition and opened a New York motion-capture lab; IONQ launched its sixth-generation quantum platform and agreed to acquire an enterprise security firm for $1.3 billion in stock. Their revenue trends show different stages.
AI has conquered math, now it is chasing the rest of scienceMIT researchers say AI may soon become the default way to solve theoretical problems in economics, high-energy physics and other fields. After math, AI could again reshape how research is done.
Caterpillar Shares Eye 30% Slump From Record HighConcerns over oil prices, bond yields and the future of the AI trade are pressuring industrials, putting Caterpillar shares on track to fall more than 30% from their record high.
Apate uses AI agents to infiltrate scamsAustralian startup Apate.ai deploys thousands of AI agents posing as victims to engage scammers and gather intelligence such as bank accounts and crypto wallets. It says the agents have wasted 17 years of scammers' time across 2.5 million conversations, serving banks, telecoms and government agencies.
AI enables clinical phenotyping of human brown fatA Nature study used AI to perform clinical phenotyping of human brown fat, showing the potential of AI in medical imaging and metabolic research.
2.7B model trained on Victorian texts releasedA developer released Mr.Chatterbox-2.7B-Chat, a model pretrained and fine-tuned from scratch on Victorian texts for maximum historical accuracy, with code and project documentation available.
CoreWeave's CEO Blames Rout on Market Acting 'Irrationally'CoreWeave CEO Mike Intrator said the market is acting 'irrationally' amid a plunge in the company's stock and bond prices, expressing confidence in the AI cloud company.
Kyndryl to run AI agents in Toyota Finance production ITKyndryl and Toyota Systems will run AI agents in Toyota Finance's production IT environment for change management, infrastructure design and impact analysis, working from Toyota Finance's own rules and runbooks to flag risks. Contract value, timeline and measured results were not disclosed, but reaching production is the step most such projects never reach.
Rice University Launches AI Initiative, Plans to Hire 75 FacultyRice University announced a university-wide AI initiative to hire 75 AI-focused faculty and build The Arc facility to advance AI research and education.
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