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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’s Gemini 4 Carbon aims at cyber defence and long coding tasks
Google DeepMind has announced Carbon, its strongest Gemini model yet, with a focus on finding and fixing security flaws, and is releasing it first to cyber defenders.
Source: Google DeepMind
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Google Research gives AI models a ‘sleep’ phase to learn without forgetting
Google researchers propose letting language models pause to sleep, turning short-term memories into lasting knowledge so they can keep learning without losing old skills.
Source: Google Research
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Liquid AI’s LFM3 puts text, vision and voice models on one small backbone
Liquid AI has released a new family of small open models for text, images, audio and decisions that can be fine-tuned on a single GPU and run on devices.
Source: Hugging Face
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Marvel’s VisionQuest shows how sci-fi shapes the hype around rogue AI
A Verge critic argues that Marvel’s new series about a thinking robot highlights how tech firms borrow science fiction to make AI seem more powerful than it is.
Source: The Verge
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Google DeepMind’s Genie 4 builds interactive worlds with sound and speech
Google DeepMind’s new world model generates explorable, photorealistic scenes in real time, now with native audio and characters who talk, for an early group of testers.
Source: Google DeepMind
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AI Now’s Kate Brennan says AI firms should face strict liability for harm
In a New York Times expert roundtable, AI Now’s Kate Brennan argues governments should keep harmful AI products off the market, as they do with drugs and planes.
Source: AI Now Institute
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Google’s chest X-ray AI for TB now screens patients in African clinics
Google Research says its tuberculosis X-ray models have become a certified clinical tool used in African clinics, while open versions help health ministries build their own.
Source: Google Research
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Trimming a small model’s vocabulary cut one company’s AI costs by 77%
Dharma AI rebuilt the vocabulary of a small language model around what each token costs to serve, and its essay grader became cheaper and more accurate.
Source: Hugging Face
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Kevin Roose on why AI labs’ belief in AGI shapes the whole industry
Former New York Times reporter Kevin Roose tells The Verge’s Decoder that true believers drive the race to build AGI, and that belief shapes the labs’ business choices.
Source: The Verge
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Google maps the world’s forest types to show what replaces lost forests
Google DeepMind and partners have released a free global map that sorts forests into natural, planted and farmed types, and tracks how they change year by year.
Source: Google DeepMind