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OpenAI partners with Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL to bring trusted Brazilian journalism to ChatGPT, expanding access to news with attribution and transparency.

OpenAI partners with Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL to bring trusted Brazilian journalism to ChatGPT, expanding access to news with attribution and transparency.

As attackers ramp up their AI exploit development, the search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly.

Pope Leo XIV warned of the risks of AI and unconstrained technological power in his first major papal document released on Monday. Magnifica Humanitas is the pope’s manifesto on “safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence,” in which he discusses the dangers of AI-powered warfare, the effects of AI on labor, and […]

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Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical uses AI as a lens to diagnose older problems: concentrated power, eroding democracy, and a tech elite that shapes the world to its own advantage.

The nine-year-old startup is replacing hundreds of employees with thousands of AI agents.

To achieve safe, cost-effective autonomy we need to see how other road users react to the vehicles

Supervisor to stress seriousness of risks to financial system at hastily arranged meeting

StepFun, the Shanghai-based AI lab, released StepAudio 2.5 Realtime in May 2026 — an end-to-end real-time speech large language model with fully customizable persona capabilities. The model connects via a WebSocket API, supports Chinese and English, and ranked first across all five benchmark dimensions tested in April 2026, including an 80.41 human evaluation score and 82.18 on paralinguistic comprehension.
The post StepFun Releases StepAudio 2.5 Realtime: An End-to-End Voice Model with Roleplay-Specific RLHF and Paralinguistic Comprehension appeared first on MarkTechPost.

In this tutorial, we implement the Langfuse (an open-source LLM engineering platform) pipeline for tracing, prompt management, scoring, datasets, and experiments. We build a complete workflow that works with either a real OpenAI key or a deterministic mock LLM, so we can understand every major Langfuse feature without depending on paid model access. We start […]
The post Build a Complete Langfuse Observability and Evaluation Pipeline for Tracing, Prompt Management, Scoring, and Experiments appeared first on MarkTechPost.

We’re in the transition period — all of us.

Military capability depends increasingly on data centres. Now governments outpaced in AI are looking to experimental technologies

Linear attention squeezes the unbounded KV cache into a fixed-size recurrent state, but editing that memory without scrambling existing associations is hard. Prior delta-rule models like Gated DeltaNet and KDA use one scalar gate to control both erasing old content and writing new content. NVIDIA’s Gated DeltaNet-2 decouples these into a channel-wise erase gate b_t on the key axis and a channel-wise write gate w_t on the value axis. At 1.3B parameters trained on 100B FineWeb-Edu tokens, it outperforms Mamba-2, Gated DeltaNet, KDA, and Mamba-3 across language modeling, commonsense reasoning, and long-context retrieval — with the largest gains on RULER S-NIAH and multi-key needle retrieval.
The post NVIDIA AI Releases Gated DeltaNet-2: A Linear Attention Layer That Decouples Erase and Write in the Delta Rule appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Microsoft Research introduces Webwright, a terminal-native browser agent framework that replaces click-trace web automation with reusable Playwright scripts. Using a single agent loop across three modules and roughly 1,000 lines of code, Webwright powered by GPT-5.4 reaches 60.1% on the long-horizon Odysseys benchmark and 86.7% on Online-Mind2Web — the highest AutoEval score among open-sourced harness recipes.
The post Microsoft Research Releases Webwright: A Terminal-Native Web Agent Framework That Scores 60.1% on Odysseys, Up from Base GPT-5.4’s 33.5% appeared first on MarkTechPost.

A nonprofit in the city’s most troubled district has turned to robotic meal prep tech to make up for a dearth of human volunteers.

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI mischief, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Hacking the first generation of AI chatbots was a laughably simple affair. […]

Like other AI wearables, Amazon’s Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.

Clients are questioning the value of advice while getting more used to fees based on successful task completion

In this tutorial, we build an advanced workflow using the SuperClaude Framework as a structured layer on top of the Anthropic API.
The post Build a SuperClaude Framework Workflow with Commands, Agents, Modes, and Session Memory appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Tencent has open-sourced TencentDB Agent Memory, a fully local memory system for AI agents released under the MIT license. The project pairs symbolic short-term memory, which offloads verbose tool logs into a compact Mermaid task canvas, with a 4-tier long-term memory pyramid (L0 Conversation → L1 Atom → L2 Scenario → L3 Persona). It ships as an OpenClaw plugin and a Hermes Docker image, runs on local SQLite + sqlite-vec by default, and uses hybrid BM25 + vector retrieval with RRF fusion. Tencent’s own benchmarks report a 61.38% token reduction and 51.52% relative pass-rate gain on WideSearch with OpenClaw, alongside PersonaMem accuracy moving from 48% to 76%.
The post Tencent Open-Sources TencentDB Agent Memory: A 4-Tier Local Memory Pipeline for AI Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Composers have always experimented with new technology — but the latest advances threaten ‘skill death’ in this centuries-old art form

If governments don’t slow AI down, voters — like their predecessors — might take matters into their own hands

Deals hit record highs, unloved companies turn sexy and PE finds a new gold mine

With SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic targeting the same market, investors must decide what qualities they prize most

Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei battle over who can command Wall Street’s deepest pools of capital

Perplexity has open-sourced Bumblebee, an internal security tool it uses to protect the developer systems behind its search product, Comet, and Computer. Bumblebee is a read-only inventory collector for macOS and Linux developer endpoints. It scans npm, PyPI, Go modules, MCP configs, editor extensions, and browser extensions — without invoking any package manager or running any code.
The post Perplexity Open-Sources Bumblebee: A Read-Only Supply-Chain Scanner for Developer Endpoints appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Nous Research releases Contrastive Neuron Attribution (CNA), a method that identifies and ablates sparse MLP neuron circuits to steer LLM behavior — no sparse autoencoder training, no weight modification, and no degradation of general capability benchmarks.
The post Nous Research Releases Contrastive Neuron Attribution (CNA): Sparse MLP Circuit Steering Without SAE Training or Weight Modification appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Last year I deepfaked my kid’s stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation. It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted in a Gemini ad Google was running, and I never showed the videos of Buddy the deer on his adventures to my four-year-old. […]

Elon Muks’s xAI has gone all in on natural gas, while SpaceX is obsessed with orbital data centers. What happened to the “solar-electric economy” he promised?

IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP take TechCrunch inside how they are redefining the fan experience.

AI agents start every session from zero — no memory of meetings, notes, or decisions. GBrain, the open-source memory layer Y Combinator’s Garry Tan built to power his own OpenClaw and Hermes deployments, fixes that with a markdown-first knowledge graph that wires itself through regex inference, not LLM calls. This step-by-step coding tutorial walks through installing GBrain v0.38.2.0, building a brain repo, running hybrid search, and connecting it to Claude Code via MCP — about 20 minutes, all terminal output captured live.
The post A Step-by-Step Coding Tutorial to Implement GBrain: The Self-Wiring Memory Layer Built by Y Combinator’s Garry Tan for AI Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Along with the usual heavy dose of AI, this week’s list also includes large deals for aerospace and defense, fintech, and retail technology.

Bolt fired its entire HR team and replaced it with people ops. Its CEO says the move helped save the company.
The post ‘HR is the wrong energy’: Bolt CEO defends eliminating the entire department appeared first on HR Executive.

OpenAI is named a leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Coding Agents, with Codex recognized for innovation and enterprise-scale deployment.

How Virgin Atlantic used Codex to ship its revamped mobile app on a fixed holiday travel deadline, reaching near-total unit test coverage and zero P1 defects.