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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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Swiss open model Apertus 1.5 adds images, audio and longer memory
The Swiss AI initiative’s fully open Apertus models can now understand images and audio and reason before answering, with their data and training published.
Source: Hugging Face
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IBM’s Granite Switch 4.1 puts chat, decisions and speech in one model
IBM’s new Granite Switch models combine chat, decision-making, safety checks and speech-to-text in one model served from a single endpoint.
Source: Hugging Face
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Google’s Earth AI agent takes on planet-scale questions
Google Research says its Earth AI agent, which plans before it acts and uses specialised map and satellite models, beats general chatbots at complex geospatial questions.
Source: Google Research
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Google opens Deep Review, an AI checker for technical documents
Google has made Deep Review public: an AI agent that checks long technical documents, such as papers, legal agreements and financial reports, for errors.
Source: Google Research
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Google Research@ 2026: Earth AI, Deep Review and more
Google Research used its annual Research@ event to announce a batch of AI tools for scientists, doctors, developers and businesses.
Source: Google Research
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How Google says it made Gemini 4 Argon safe to release
Google DeepMind is rolling out Gemini 4 Argon more widely and explained the safeguards it added because the model is so capable in cybersecurity and biology.
Source: Google DeepMind
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DeepMind and Singapore build an on-device AI scam detector
Google DeepMind and Singapore’s GovTech built a small AI model that spots scam conversations on the phone itself, without sending messages anywhere.
Source: Google DeepMind
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Google’s Antigravity agent helps biologists hunt for new antibiotics
Google DeepMind showed its Antigravity agent working alongside a scientist to find a promising new antibiotic candidate in a huge protein database.
Source: Google DeepMind