Z.ai’s GLM-Legal is a legal AI model built on GLM-5.3-Flash. It scores 19.2% all-pass on Harvey’s Legal Agent Benchmark, nearly 3x its base, at $0.15 per test. Access is by application.
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Backed by Silicon Valley titans, Leading the Future has raised huge sums to promote pro-AI candidates on both side of the aisle.
In a world of AI Overviews, Wikipedia usage declines. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic.
Character.AI, one of the first breakout startups of the generative AI boom, has filed for bankruptcy and is selling some of its assets to Disney. The company, which builds various online bots for users to chat or roleplay with, has faced mounting scrutiny and lawsuits over the safety of its chatbots, but has continued releasing […]
It’s finally here: Apple’s long-rumored smart display, the Apple HomeView, has arrived. I got a first look at the device in New York City this week, and it’s gorgeous. The HomeView puts a small, vibrant screen atop a speaker base for taking video calls, beautifully displaying photos, and providing information at a glance with Apple’s […]
When Nvidia originally showed off DLSS 5 earlier this year, the technology immediately got branded as gen AI for video games. To gamers, Nvidia had lost the plot. I personally couldn’t get over how faces were transformed using DLSS 5. The 15-year-old student from Hogwarts Legacy suddenly looked much older, and Grace from Resident Evil […]
Epic Games plans to use AI to generate code and art for an unannounced Disney game, which is now delayed from its original March release window, according to a report from Bloomberg. The project’s developers have been given an “AI-first” mandate directing them to use tools like Anthropic’s Claude more to finish the game. According […]
After months sitting on the sidelines of the frontier AI race, Google has finally launched its long-awaited Gemini 4 Argon model, claiming it can compete with the best the industry has to offer. Google says Argon delivers “frontier reasoning and improved performance across complex workflows,” while cutting down on hedging, repetition, and the cliches that […]
Earlier this month, news broke that actress Mia Goth had filed for divorce from actor and filmmaker Shia LaBeouf. An Instagram post from the account miagoth_ – marked with a blue verified checkmark – quickly spread. The post shows Goth in a T-shirt that reads “MY EX IS MY BIGGEST FAN” in bold black letters. […]
The next time you vibe-code a custom app with Google’s AI Studio, you won’t have to connect your phone to a computer to install it. On Tuesday, Google announced a new feature in the US that will allow you to launch personal apps directly through the Play Store. Google first launched the ability to vibe-code […]
Facebook’s new “Your Algorithm” feature will let you directly add and manage topics you want to see in your feed and Facebook Reels. Meta says your recommendations “respond right away” after you make updates using the new feature by hitting “interested” or “not interested” for different topics. Your Algorithm previously launched on Instagram earlier this […]
The startup will sell some of its assets to Disney for $20 million.
American Express is introducing a new framework designed to ensure AI agents only make purchases their users have authorized, potentially preventing costly mistakes and disputes as AI-powered shopping grows.
The new X Subscription combines X’s paid features with AI tools like Grok and Cursor, offering plans ranging from $8 to $200 per month.
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Google is making it easier to build and use personal Android apps created with AI, without having to make them available to everyone on the Play Store.
Pluto Security has raised $42 million Jump Capital, TLV Partners, Ansa Capital and angel investors.
University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield.
The country’s tech giants are snapping up products never designed for advanced AI to satisfy soaring computing demands
The fund believes Britain is emerging as one of the winners of the tech boom
The technology consultancy seeks to calm jitters with an investor day this week
Fraudulent use of AI in the jobs process is forcing the warm and fuzzy realms of the former to work with the suspicious minds of the latter
Guidelines are vital to ensure overstretched forces in England and Wales can use the systems to speed up investigations
Declines for Samsung and SK Hynix drag Kospi sharply lower as investors fret over scale of AI investment
Alibaba’s Qwen team has introduced QwenGyre, an elastic reinforcement learning RL framework for extreme-long-horizon agent training. QwenGyre is an online reinforcement learning system from Alibaba that trains coding agents through unmodified, black-box harnesses. It targets rollouts that run for hours and process close to 1M tokens. The QwenGyre elastic RL framework was used on Qwen’s […]
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Meta’s biggest model rivals the world’s best—and includes new features to keep agents from going off the rails.
Musk, we find your lack of security disturbing.
Meta is making up for lost time in the AI race. After launching Muse Spark, the first model from its revamped Superintelligence Labs division, and buzzy AI agent Muse, it’s now launching two new models it claims can go toe-to-toe with the industry’s best. The new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, are available […]
Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually make things better?
A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million.
Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perform at low latency, the Wonder models are larger and said to be more capable, with higher benchmark scores and better results on complex tasks like coding.
Trump vs Norway; chōsen-seki; mathematicians and AI, RIP Quartz; Wallace and Gromit
Used right, the technology can unleash human creativity rather than destroy it
FT interview: tech billionaire touts release of new Muse Wonder model after vast spending to challenge rivals in AI race
TII has released Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B speech recognition model for Arabic with an Emirati focus. It reports 20.92% average WER on 6 Arabic test sets, but weights and an API are not yet available.
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We checked 12 AI live translation tools, including Palabra.ai, Google Live Translate, DeepL Voice, Teams Interpreter and Wordly, against official pages for languages, latency, platforms and pricing.
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