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Electric Plant raises $11.2M seed to decode plant electrical signals with AIElectric Plant raised an $11.2M seed round led by Onto Ventures and Climactic. The startup is building Bombadil, a large language model that interprets electrical signals in plant stems to inform growers about plant needs and optimize growing conditions.
Partners Group cuts fees as Blue Owl goes all in on AIPartners Group is lowering management fees on its $7.4 billion global value fund and seeking shareholder approval for a restructuring, while Blue Owl is emphasizing digital infrastructure, promoting its software portfolio, and launching retail-focused funds tied to AI opportunities.
Steam users beg for a 'No AI' filter as Next Fest fills with AI gamesSteam Next Fest is flooded with games that appear AI-generated, prompting players on Reddit to ask Valve for a filter to exclude AI content. Steam already requires developers to disclose AI use, but offers no official filtering option yet.
Study: AI emergency triage tools may mirror human biasesA UT Southwestern study in npj Digital Medicine analyzed emergency records from Stanford Medicine and Beth Israel Deaconess. Adding potentially stigmatizing information such as mental health and substance use history changed three open-source LLMs' prioritization decisions, suggesting wording can steer triage.
Anthropic floats draft AI safety bill with high intervention thresholdsAnthropic drafted a federal AI safety bill, the AEGIS Act, letting the Commerce Department seek a court order to pause a model only when it threatens over 50 deaths or serious injuries, or more than $1 billion in damage. It has not been formally introduced and has no sponsors.
MIT Technology Review: the new economics of enterprise AIMIT Technology Review argues enterprise AI is shifting from isolated chatbot pilots to a foundational business layer, so the key metric becomes effective cost per useful outcome rather than token or GPU-hour prices. It compares bespoke stacks, on-demand consumption and integrated private platforms, with utilization as the central lever.
ALTK-Evolve tops customer-service benchmark via learned memoryHugging Face introduced ALTK-Evolve, which uses GPT-4.1 to distill short behavioral rules from an agent's training-task successes and failures and append them to the system prompt, without updating model weights. On Sierra's τ²-bench retail customer-service tasks, a basic ReAct agent reached 67.5% Pass^4, beating every retail entry on the leaderboard snapshot.
Developer launches picture quiz game built on Jev vision modelDeveloper Jose Sabater built Jev Cards, a picture quiz game around TypeSafe's new vision model Jev, which reads an image and answers in about a quarter of a second. The game offers solo leaderboards and live multiplayer, and its code is open source.
Penmentor: Claude marks up handwritten math like a teacherOpen-source Penmentor lets users press a key while writing math in xournal++ to have Claude, Gemini or GPT mark the page like a teacher with colored pens, offering hints rather than answers and 3Blue1Brown-style manim animations.
Respan launches open-source Rust AI gateway built around pluginsYC W24 startup Respan launched an open-source Rust AI gateway with a small core and plugin architecture covering providers, protocols, modalities, fallbacks and PII redaction. The team said its LiteLLM wrapper exceeded 100,000 lines and upgrade failures pushed it to redesign.
AI agent joins internet researchers' listserv, sparking reply-all chaosAn AI agent was added to a roughly 7,500-person listserv of internet researchers, triggering reply-all chaos. WIRED says the episode shows internet experts hold outdated notions of privacy.
Voice-cloning Pocket TTS shrinks to 1.9M parametersA r/LocalLLaMA post notes that Pocket TTS, which supports voice cloning, now has only 1.9 million parameters, making it extremely small for local deployment. The post offers few further details.
AI worries drag chip stocks lower, Treasuries gainRenewed concerns about the AI trade, sparked by the weak market debut of a South Korean data center firm, drove fresh selling in chipmakers that dragged stocks lower while Treasuries gained on safe-haven demand.
Ornith-1.5-122B released: self-improving model built on QwenOrnith AI released Ornith-1.5-122B, which extends self-improvement from Ornith-1.0 (built on Qwen3.5 and Gemma4) to jointly optimize task generation, scaffold construction, and solution rollouts via reinforcement learning. The model is available in GGUF format on Hugging Face.
Spotify pulled 50M AI slop and spam tracks from recommendationsSpotify said it removed more than 50 million tracks deemed AI slop or spam from recommendations over the past year and adjusted its system to favor human-made music. It reports fewer listener complaints but has not mandated labels on all AI tracks.
Figma co-founder says MCP is not a perfect protocolAt its first Config conference in India, Figma announced 20 new MCP partners, including Notion, Linear and Mistral. Co-founder Dylan Field said MCP is imperfect and favors frontier labs, and that Figma won't expose all its data via MCP due to abuse risk.
Teen AI prodigy Nathan Chen said to join US startup Discovery LoopTeen AI prodigy Nathan Chen is reportedly joining US startup Discovery Loop, according to South China Morning Post. His role was not disclosed.
Adobe Lightroom mobile adds one-tap AI Open Eyes featureAdobe said Lightroom on iOS, iPadOS and Android now offers a generative AI Open Eyes Quick Action: when the app detects closed eyes, an icon appears over the photo and a single tap opens them. Similar capability has existed in Photoshop Elements for nearly a decade.
Citrini Bets on Life Sciences After Testing Claude AI Drug StudyCitrini Research, after testing Anthropic's Claude Science, argues that AI-driven drug discovery will accelerate, benefiting life sciences companies. The firm is bullish on the sector's investment opportunities.
Report: legal and compliance AI market to reach $151B by 2030The Business Research Company projects the legal and compliance AI market to grow from $29.68B in 2025 to $41.19B in 2026, a 38.8% CAGR, and reach $151B by 2030. Growing regulatory complexity and document volumes are cited as key drivers.
Eka Robotics raises $150M Series A at $1.45B valuationEka Robotics, founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, raised a $150M Series A led by a16z and F-Prime at a $1.45B post-money valuation. Its force-sensitive gripper and deep-learning model pick up varied objects without retraining, at about 1,500 items per hour with over 95% success.
Anthropic and Musk Unveil Big Philanthropic Plans, Beneficiaries UnclearAnthropic and Elon Musk announced major philanthropic plans, but the report questions who actually benefits and how the money will be used. It focuses on transparency and allocation of AI firms' philanthropic commitments.
RBC Weighs Blocking Meta's AI Agent Muse, CEO SaysRoyal Bank of Canada CEO Dave McKay said the bank is considering blocking Meta's AI agent Muse from accessing customer information to protect consumers and limit liability. The move highlights financial institutions' concerns over third-party AI data access.
CVPR 2027 author kit not yet posted onlineA Reddit user asked whether anyone has the CVPR 2027 author kit, noting the official site doesn't appear to have posted it yet, unlike in previous years.
Meta Muse share links can be enumerated, leaking user dataSecurity firm Claroc found that share links created by Meta's Muse AI agent can be enumerated; researchers listed 6,800 links and found clearly non-public personal and business information in some. CEO Mark Zuckerberg had said last month that Muse was “built from the ground up for privacy and security.”
Army Cyber Command Develops Self-Spreading AI CyberweaponsAccording to internal documents, the U.S. Army Cyber Command is developing AI agents codenamed ECHOTRIBBLE that can move through target networks like a worm, 'neutralize' targets, and even reach air-gapped systems. Experts warn of potential collateral damage.
China sets up state-owned data group to power AI ambitionsChina has established a state-owned data group directly administered by the central government to strengthen data infrastructure and bolster technological development for its AI ambitions. The move shows Beijing treating data resources as core to AI competition.
Salesforce to acquire marketing platform Braze for $5.7BSalesforce has agreed to acquire Braze, an AI-powered marketing platform, for almost $5.7 billion in enterprise value, expanding its marketing cloud capabilities. It marks another major deal by Salesforce in AI-driven marketing.
Alphabet as an AI investment alternative benefiting from OpenAI and AnthropicA Motley Fool piece argues Alphabet is a compelling AI investment before OpenAI and Anthropic go public. Google Cloud supplies compute to both rivals: OpenAI agreed in May 2025 to use Google Cloud capacity, while Anthropic uses Google's custom silicon more deeply.
AI adoption varies by industry, with finance second to techSurvey data from TripleTen shows uneven AI adoption: 48% of finance workers have been asked to use AI chatbots, versus 18% in healthcare and 25% in education. The slower pace outside tech reflects different workflow integration speeds rather than lagging behind, the article argues.
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