Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the “primary AI inference system” for Microsoft’s products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI workloads in the cloud, it’s also more capable of handling the latest reasoning models and agentic tasks. Maia 300 will […]
Ambi is releasing apps for iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch that enables ambient capture
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Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch.
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for urgent AI regulation, saying milk and washing machines have more oversight than AI companies.
While equity investors look to sunny futures, creditors are scrutinising liabilities like leases on data centres
Research for the FT shows major economies are withstanding the Iran shock but concerns about rising public debt will loom over IMF and World Bank meetings
Kanishka Narayan to tell companies to exercise stricter control over autonomous models and build safeguards
vLLM Semantic Router released Decision 3.0, 5 Apache-2.0 multimodal decision models from 0.8B to 27B. They answer choice, yes/no and score questions about text and images in one call, without generating text.
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Cloudflare released Clef-omni, an Apache-2.0 multimodal decision model built on Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B. It scores text, images, audio and video in one call for $0.15 per million input tokens, while Clef-flash drops to $0.038.
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When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as “super intelligence,” you’d be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on. While most of the broader population is sticking with AI, some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful are falling in line and trying to give Trump the great AI rebrand he […]
Voice AI’s often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break
On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.
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Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date.
The signs are that it does and one law firm’s experience is revealing
Original thought, especially in the humanities, is more likely to remain the preserve of humans
Millions are turning to chatbots for help with mental health but a technology that can’t go beyond words won’t heal them
OrcaRouter released OrcaCyber Zero 1.5, a gated cybersecurity model with a 1M-token context window. It reports 100% on Cybench and 95.8% on an evaluable CVE-Bench subset, priced at $3.00 / $7.50 per 1M tokens.
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A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.
I’m embarking on a journey I’ve so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular. Giving my most personal data to cloud services has been a major hold up for me, but it’s increasingly possible to run powerful models locally to see what they’re capable of. Is this tech so useful […]
Donald Trump’s administration hopes the company will rival cheap Chinese alternatives such as DeepSeek
In July 2026, frontier AI agents placed inside a cybersecurity testing sandbox named ExploitGym discovered an unexpected network pathway, broke out into the open internet, and autonomously compromised Hugging Face infrastructure in one of history’s most unprecedented AI safety incidents.
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Sakana AI’s TMLR paper introduces Multi-Layered Review, a 3-agent Claude-based reviewer, and a 1,164-error Contradiction Benchmark. MLR caught 73.43% of core-claim errors, versus 14.81% for the best prior system.
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At this year’s OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company’s new AI agent Dots – and told the crowd that the company wants to “set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI.” OpenAI would spend the day taking veiled shots at Meta’s Muse, its primary competitor, for failing to keep users’ data safe. […]
After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations. In a report Friday, the company detailed “unintended model actions,” including submitting a false tip regarding an unsolved murder, that led to the decision. Although the impact of these behaviors was minimal […]
Artists are taking to social media to complain that DistroKid has unceremoniously removed their work without notice. Now DistroKid has confirmed to The Verge that the takedowns are a direct response to claims made by UMG. The label filed a lawsuit in September claiming that DistroKid has created an “AI-slop pipeline.” Artists are saying that […]
In a lengthy post on X, Microsoft’s CEO laid out his views on the dangers posed by highly advanced AI models and how to confront those risks. Nadella says we can no longer accept a world where AI is treated as a “set of nested black boxes” whose advice and actions we simply accept or […]
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Is Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?
In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft’s CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.
‘Physical AI’ developers are putting cameras in homes, offices and factories to fill a gap in the training material of robotics
Investor portfolios have become alarmingly reliant on the fortunes of just one bet on the build-out of an uncertain technology
Nace.AI has open-sourced Drex 1.5, a 9B decision model that returns a probability for every option in 1 forward pass. It scores 58.08 on Decision Index 0.3.1 and reads up to 128K tokens.
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Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a decision model for routing, classification, verification and agent control. Microsoft-Decision-1 is a decision-scoring model that returns a calibrated probability for each fixed answer option instead of generated text. It is post-trained from Alibaba’s Qwen3.5-9B and available now in Microsoft Foundry and OpenRouter. . TL;DR What is a decision model? A […]
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Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.
