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8 stories

1 hour agoBusiness

Launch Business

Meta Drops Token Counts From Reviews While Employees Test Hatch

Meta is separating performance assessment from AI activity just as it puts a more autonomous tool in front of employees. Whether workers trust Hatch with personal accounts remains a separate test.

2 min

4 hours agoCulture

Research Culture

UW Study Finds Curio AI Toys Struggled With Children’s Complex Questions

A newly published University of Washington account shows a gap between conversational toy features and children’s short-term experience, while leaving longer-term attachment risks unresolved.

2 min

5 hours agoProducts

Launch Products

Amazon Adds U.S. Alexa Tool to Verify Calls, Texts and Emails

Alexa for Shopping can confirm an official Amazon communication, reject a match, or leave it unresolved—so a nonmatch is not presented as a definitive scam ruling.

2 min

9 hours agoModels

Research Models

Mostik Links AI Models Through Their Weights, Claiming a 20x Cost Cut

The startup is proposing an alternative to the usual model-to-model text handoff. Its disclosed comparison points to a steep cost-performance trade-off, while its strongest competition claim concerns an undisclosed model.

2 min

11 hours agoProducts

Launch Products

AWS Makes Its Contact-Center AI Designer Generally Available With Rules Beside the Model

The product separates flexible conversation from fixed decisions such as identity checks and eligibility, while linking voice calls to on-screen choices and preserving context during a transfer.

3 min

11 hours agoProducts

Launch Products

Anthropic Gives Retailers Claude Agent Blueprints, With Checkout Still Off-Limits

The new guidance packages shopper recommendations and merchant decision support for a holiday-season retail push, while keeping agents from completing purchases.

2 min

11 hours agoModels

Research Models

Nature Study Finds AI Agent Teams Can Cut Sequential Planning Performance by 70%

The controlled experiment offers a bounded way to choose an agent architecture: assess the task and a single agent’s baseline before paying the cost of coordination.

2 min

13 hours agoBusiness

Lawsuit Business

OpenAI Faces 30 New Lawsuits Over Alleged Failure to Alert Police Before Tumbler Ridge Shooting

The filings put OpenAI’s internal threshold for reporting threats, its account controls and its decision-making chain at the center of a growing legal fight.

3 min

Yesterday

10 stories

23 hours agoBusiness

Acquisition Business

ALKU Buys rockITdata to Add AI Delivery Work and Federal Health Reach

The deal connects ALKU’s specialized talent business with a consulting firm built around AI, data and digital transformation. The strategic target is clear; the financial scale and client results are not.

2 min

YesterdayModels

Launch Models

Google May Ship Gemini 3.8 Flash 20 Days After 3.7, With Coding Edge Unproven

Google engineers reportedly preferred the internal model to an Anthropic Opus system in Jetski. Without the test design or public model materials, that result is a signal of internal usefulness rather than a broad coding verdict.

3 min

YesterdayPolicy

Government action Policy

EU Seeks AI Act Answers From 30-Plus Companies, With Fines for Misleading Replies

The first information demands turn the EU’s general-purpose AI rules from written obligations into a live compliance process. A request is not a finding of wrongdoing, but the answers can determine whether the matter escalates.

3 min

YesterdayProducts

Launch Products

CrowdStrike’s SafeMind Pits Red and Blue AI Agents in an NVIDIA Infrastructure Twin

The new Falcon system combines CrowdStrike’s security data and agent harnesses with NVIDIA’s open Nemotron models. Early tests favor the optimized open pipeline on detection quality, but cover only one attack scenario family.

3 min

YesterdayModels

Funding Models

Rice Wins $900,000 NSF Grant for Generative Cameras Built for Low-Power Networks

The three-year research effort shifts the proposed camera bottleneck from sensing and transmission to AI reconstruction. Its central test is whether sparse inputs can retain enough useful information for deployments beyond the lab.

3 min

YesterdayCulture

Enterprise adoption Culture

Macquarie Shifts Two Psychology Subjects to AI-Guided Learning, With Human Tutors Optional

The new format makes a course-grounded chatbot part of weekly learning, but separates assessment from those activities and leaves live help optional. Macquarie plans to bring back in-person classes in alternate semesters from 2027.

2 min

YesterdayProducts

Launch Products

Altruist Puts Six-Part Financial Planning in Hazel, With Separate Math Programs

The new agent gives advisors a way to build and adjust comprehensive plans during client meetings. Altruist’s key design claim is that AI handles client context while separate software produces the financial figures.

2 min

YesterdayModels

Benchmark Models

GPT-5 and Gemini-3 Recovered Up to 65% of Missed Facts by Thinking Longer

The Google Research and Technion benchmark shifts the diagnosis for some factual errors from missing training data to unreliable access—while leaving open whether the result holds beyond Wikipedia facts.

3 min

YesterdayBusiness

Acquisition Business

Numa Buys SocketTime to Link Dealership AI With Live Shop Capacity

The purchase adds the operational records behind a service promise to Numa’s customer-communications system. Numa’s planned agents now face the harder job: coordinating work as repair orders change.

2 min

YesterdayModels

Open release Models

Google Releases MAPL-EMIT to Map Facility-Scale Methane Plumes From Space

The database, trained model and inference tools give researchers and local monitors new ways to process EMIT scenes. Greater sensitivity still leaves a practical trade-off between catching weak plumes and filtering false alerts.

2 min

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