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Zealand Pharma's ZUPREME-1 obesity trial and a wider pipeline of amylin-based drugs — which mimic a natural fullness hormone — target the dropout gap, not bigger weight-loss numbers.
The Kyiv-founded, London- and Luxembourg-based AI startup, which flags imminent targeting of a client's staff, sites, and suppliers before a strike lands, secured €8.
The Call Center Doctors rented four Nvidia H200s to swap DeepSeek in for Claude. Their coding agents re-read 96% of every prompt, and DeepSeek's caching tier was already priced for that.
Meta's new AI shopping agent launches in the US, but Amazon's blockade and Walmart's prior stumbles reveal how deeply retailers resist letting third-party agents complete purchases on their platforms.
In Guardian tests of an AI-generated image of a Muslim woman, Claude refused on principle; ChatGPT and Grok complied; Gemini declined until a prompt asked for the subject to look "more western.
WIRED's review of the $11,000 M5 Ultra Mac Studio finds a 122-billion-parameter AI model runs locally in under two minutes, while a 15-second video takes 11 minutes.
The September pledge turned outside AI safety auditing into an industry commitment. Early pilot arrangements show why the evaluation science is the actual bottleneck.
Taiwan's state shipbuilder CSBC and Rhode Island's Havoc AI are pairing autonomy software with locally built unmanned attack boats, sketching a template allied navies could copy.
A Tokyo court recognized voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda's baritone under publicity rights, applying August Justice Ministry guidance, but denied takedown because the AI clone videos were already deleted.
A Tokyo court ruled that cloning a voice actor's instrument to cash in on its commercial appeal violates his publicity rights. The narrow lever doesn't ban AI voice training, but it gives voice workers a new tool.
Huawei ships a Kirin that trades smaller transistors for 3D-stacked wiring, and prices the Mate 90 Pro Max 2,000 yuan above the Mate 80 to pay for the workaround
Akamai's $11.6 billion, seven-year CPU deal with Anthropic shows the content delivery networks the consensus wrote off are now the landlord for AI's general-purpose compute.