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Every story, newest first: the day’s AI news on models, research, tools, policy and business, in short plain-language summaries linked to the original reporting.
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Google DeepMind’s PlanAssist heads to more English councils after pilots
An AI tool built with the UK government to speed up routine home-planning checks is expanding to more councils in England after early trials.
Source: Google DeepMind
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A Verge editor builds a homemade Muse Charm with a $50 kit and AI code
Instead of waiting for Meta’s Muse Charm, a Verge editor turned a cheap developer kit into a pocket AI companion, using an AI coding tool to add missing features.
Source: The Verge
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New Swift packages bring swappable speech and decision models to Apple apps
A Hugging Face blog post introduces two packages that let Apple developers choose their speech recognition engine and get probability-based answers from models running on the device.
Source: Hugging Face
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Anthropic’s IPO filing pairs an “age of miracles” with extinction warnings
Anthropic’s filing to go public pitches investors on a world-changing mission while warning at length that its technology could cause catastrophic harm and that it may never turn a profit.
Source: The Verge
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Apple Intelligence will launch in China, but without the new Siri AI
Apple is bringing its earlier AI features to China through a coming iOS update, adding support for Alibaba’s chatbot but leaving out its new Siri.
Source: The Verge
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COP31 AI pledge draws criticism for setting no firm climate targets
A proposed artificial intelligence pledge ahead of the COP31 climate talks is under fire from critics who say it sets no firm goals and leaves signatories to police themselves.
Source: AI Now Institute
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Nvidia employee builds a talking Halloween garage door with open models
An Nvidia employee used the company’s open AI models to turn a garage door into a grumpy talking character that greets trick-or-treaters and softens when they say please.
Source: Hugging Face
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Project ProtoStar aims to make publicly funded science easier for AI to use
Universities, research groups and Hugging Face are teaming up to release publicly funded datasets, models and code in formats that people and AI systems can readily find and reuse.
Source: Hugging Face
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IBM ships Granite Switch 4.1.1 as a software-style update to its model
IBM has released a small patch to its modular Granite Switch model, adding a better speech recognizer and decision tool without retraining the base model.
Source: Hugging Face
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Anthropic’s IPO filing shows a profitable AI lab betting on AGI
On The Verge’s Decoder, a SemiAnalysis analyst walks through Anthropic’s filing to go public, which finally shows how a leading AI lab makes and spends its money.
Source: The Verge