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Lead storyModelsIBM ships Granite Switch 4.1.1 as a software-style update to its model
IBM has released a small patch to its modular Granite Switch model, adding a better speech recognizer and decision tool without retraining the base model.
Hugging Face
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Anthropic’s IPO filing shows a profitable AI lab betting on AGI
On The Verge’s Decoder, a SemiAnalysis analyst walks through Anthropic’s filing to go public, which finally shows how a leading AI lab makes and spends its money.
The Verge
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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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Google Research