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Gemini gets notebooks to help you organize projects

Google’s Gemini is getting a feature called “notebooks” to help you organize things about certain topics in a single place while using the AI chatbot, the company announced on Wednesday. You can pull in things like files, past conversations, and custom instructions into notebooks that Gemini can then use as context while you’re talking with […]

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Microsoft open-source toolkit secures AI agents at runtime

A new open-source toolkit from Microsoft focuses on runtime security to force strict governance onto enterprise AI agents. The release tackles a growing anxiety: autonomous language models are now executing code and hitting corporate networks way faster than traditional policy controls can keep up. AI integration used to mean conversational interfaces and advisory copilots. Those […]

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Z.AI Introduces GLM-5.1: An Open-Weight 754B Agentic Model That Achieves SOTA on SWE-Bench Pro and Sustains 8-Hour Autonomous Execution

Z.AI, the AI platform developed by the team behind the GLM model family, has released GLM-5.1 — its next-generation flagship model developed specifically for agentic engineering. Unlike models optimized for clean, single-turn benchmarks, GLM-5.1 is built for agentic tasks, with significantly stronger coding capabilities than its predecessor, and achieves state-of-the-art performance on SWE-Bench Pro while […]

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Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages

Unionized staff at ProPublica, one of the country’s leading nonprofit newsrooms, are walking off the job for 24 hours beginning Wednesday and asking the public to honor a digital picket line. The roughly 150 members of the ProPublica Guild are in the midst of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement after unionizing in 2023. The union […]

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The vibes are off at OpenAI

OpenAI is in a relatively precarious position. The company is and has been a funding behemoth – just over a week ago, it closed $122 billion in funding at a post-money valuation of $852 billion. It’s potentially planning for an IPO later this year. ChatGPT’s longtime lead in consumer-facing AI led it to name-brand status […]

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Meta is reentering the AI race with a new model called Muse Spark

Meta Superintelligence Labs is launching its first model since Mark Zuckerberg spent billions overhauling the company’s AI efforts. Called Muse Spark, the model now powers the Meta AI app and the Meta AI website in the US, per the company’s announcement. In the coming weeks, Meta says, it will appear in WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, […]

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OpenAI made economic proposals — here’s what DC thinks of them

Happy ceasefire day and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about Big Tech’s rocky journey through the world of politics. If you’re not a subscriber yet, you can do so here, but my only request is that you sign up before Donald Trump decides to revisit his previous threats toward Iran and kickstart […]

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How to Deploy Open WebUI with Secure OpenAI API Integration, Public Tunneling, and Browser-Based Chat Access

In this tutorial, we build a complete Open WebUI setup in Colab, in a practical, hands-on way, using Python. We begin by installing the required dependencies, then securely provide our OpenAI API key through terminal-based secret input so that sensitive credentials are not exposed directly in the notebook. From there, we configure the environment variables […]

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How to Combine Google Search, Google Maps, and Custom Functions in a Single Gemini API Call With Context Circulation, Parallel Tool IDs, and Multi-Step Agentic Chains

In this tutorial, we explore the latest Gemini API tooling updates Google announced in March 2026, specifically the ability to combine built-in tools like Google Search and Google Maps with custom function calls in a single API request. We walk through five hands-on demos that progressively build on each other, starting with the core tool […]

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