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An AI called Ataraxos used roughly 1/500th of prior work's compute to beat a four-time world champion, a result the team attributes to the algorithm rather than the hardware.
The Dogwood local engine gives developer-run 'agent harnesses,' the orchestration layer that calls tools and chains actions, a history-aware allow/deny without an AWS account.
Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), Sony and AMD's neural upscaler, lands on the mass-market console, tuned for closer to 1440p because the base GPU lacks dedicated AI silicon.
A new public option for the encryption layer behind every website, with quantum-resistant certificates designed to avoid a costly rebuild.
The Apache-2.0 release covers routing, triage, and schema selection: small classifiers meant to replace the slow, expensive LLM call a typical agent makes for every routine choice.
A Tokyo court turned a recognizable instrument into a courtroom tool. The read most outlets will miss: legal infrastructure, not anti-AI backlash.
A University of Michigan prototype uses inflatable zones to announce turns and lets drivers squeeze to push back, though the same study reports some drivers trusted the system too much.
Russia's new jet-powered attack drones fly in a speed regime the old propeller defenses were never built to catch, and a Ukrainian military analyst put the production clock at six months.
Governor Abbott's audit reviews grid connections, not the on-site diesel that the dry-cleaner-scale air permit has authorized at 38+ AI sites since 2024.
Proofpoint, which tracks the China-linked group behind the operation as TA419, says fewer than 10 US AI policy experts at think tanks, universities, and law firms received messages spoofing former White House science office (OSTP) deputy Lynne
The convertible note turns a customer relationship into a balance-sheet relationship, with the debt set to mature into Anthropic shares before its IPO.
A single Copilot app folds chat, coding, an autonomous AI agent that can act on the user's behalf, and Office editing into one work surface — raising the entrenchment question Microsoft would rather not answer.