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AI research tests new methods for training, evaluating and understanding artificial intelligence. Find news on machine learning papers, reasoning, model behaviour and experiments that challenge existing assumptions. Read what researchers measured, how they tested it and where the limitations lie, with links to the original work and discussion of what the findings could mean beyond a benchmark.
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Meta’s Muse can take on tasks such as buying groceries and negotiating bills, but a BBC report argues that AI agents doing this at scale could strain the websites and services they use. The question is no longer only what an agent can do for its owner, but…
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Mistral is expanding its Canadian business, planning offices in Montreal and Toronto while hiring researchers, developers and customer-facing engineers. The move shows how the French AI company is turning interest in sovereign AI into a push to build and customise systems for local organisations, though most of its…
Watch Desk
Cognition is betting that owning the model and infrastructure gives it an edge in AI coding, while Factory is betting that flexibility across models and deployment setups is the better route. A new comparison says the two approaches are now playing out in enterprise software engineering, with very…
Watch Desk
TypeSafe AI has launched Jev, a model that returns typed, probabilistic decisions instead of generated text. Its appeal is speed and outputs software can act on directly, but teams still have to decide when a probability is trustworthy enough to use.
NVIDIA Watch
NVIDIA has made its cuObject client and server libraries generally available and introduced a software kit for storage servers handling GPU-initiated requests. The push could make it easier to move AI data without routing transfers through the server CPU, while work on shared protocols aims to reduce the…
Fei-Fei Li Watch
AMD’s planned $8.2 billion purchase of World Labs would bring AI researcher Fei-Fei Li into the chipmaker as executive vice-president and chief scientist. The reported appointment puts a prominent researcher closer to AMD’s efforts to connect AI models with the hardware that runs them.
Watch Desk
Researchers and others concerned about artificial intelligence gathered at Lighthaven in Berkeley for AGI.WTF, a conference on AI risk and the people building a movement around it. The story is not just about worst-case forecasts: it offers a glimpse of how that community is organising, debating and trying…
Google DeepMind Watch
Google is preparing Gemini 4 for launch amid internal disagreement about how well it handles practical coding tasks, Bloomberg reports. The gap at the heart of the story is a familiar one in AI: strong benchmark results do not automatically translate into a model that works well on…
Watch Desk
Wajo has launched Fo, an AI agent that can make calls, send emails and pay for purchases, with a human assistant stepping in when the software hits its limits. The startup says Fo completed 71% of 104 real-world tasks, against 42% for OpenClaw, in its own testing.
Cerebras Watch
Cerebras says its inference technology helps AlphaSense return initial research results in 10 to 20 seconds, while supporting a workflow that can plan, retrieve and evaluate evidence in multiple steps. The case study offers a concrete look at how lower latency can change an AI product’s design, not…
Google DeepMind Watch
Google DeepMind has announced Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model designed for lengthy professional tasks, with a one-million-token output limit and an initial focus on trusted cyber defenders. The launch pairs ambitious performance claims with a phased rollout, an introductory API price and striking examples of AI doing…
AWS AI Watch
AWS Deadline Cloud now lets customers use Python-style expressions and richer parameter types in job templates, giving production teams more ways to automate pipeline logic without moving it elsewhere. AWS says expressions are type-checked at submission and evaluate deterministically, so the change is aimed at flexible workflows that…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic has published a study estimating which US job tasks today’s robots can perform, and where they can do them. Its central finding is a useful brake on automation headlines: robots can perform an estimated 74% of physical tasks, but are cost-competitive with people for just 0.3% of…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft Research describes a machine-learning system that estimates space-weather risk at 66,935 US substations, with potential warnings 30 to 60 minutes ahead. It gives grid operators a more local view of where a solar storm could cause trouble, rather than one broad alert for the whole country.
Geoffrey Hinton Watch
Geoffrey Hinton estimates there is a 10% chance AI could wipe out humanity within the next decade, according to Futura’s account of an interview with BBC Newsnight. He also stresses that the risk is impossible to assess accurately, which makes the figure a stark personal estimate, not a…
OpenClaw Watch
OpenClaw’s 2026.9.7 release combines performance improvements with safer upgrades and new sign-in options. The project says it is snappier under load, smoother in long chats, and adds beta support for the OpenAI Agents API and ChatGPT sign-in.
