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DeepMind launches sign language to text AI model on Pixel phones
Google DeepMind unveiled SL2T, a sign-language-to-text model trained on 100,000+ hours across 50+ sign languages, debuting in Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel 11.
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Nvidia launches Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 670 tokens per second
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open-weights model with just 3.6B active parameters that matches OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on intelligence while hitting a record 670 tokens per second.
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Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images
Anthropic has pledged to embed invisible watermarks in Claude-generated text and digitally signed provenance metadata in files, in line with EU AI transparency rules.
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ChatGPT launches an official desktop app for Linux
OpenAI has launched a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app for Linux in a worldwide preview, bringing ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex to Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora.
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Gemini hits 1 billion monthly users — the fastest-growing product in …
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces Gemini has reached 1 billion monthly active users, making it the fastest product in Google history to hit the milestone — just weeks after ChatGPT crossed the same mark.
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Unreleased Anthropic model makes progress on math's biggest open problem
An unreleased Anthropic model made notable progress on the Riemann hypothesis — one of math's toughest open problems — by coordinating 60 subagents and 31 million output tokens.
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River AI raises $1.1B just two months after launching
River AI, the startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has raised $1.1 billion in a record round for a two-month-old company, aiming to rebuild AI from scratch.
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OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap departs after 8 years to start something new
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's chief operating officer since 2022, is leaving the company to start a new venture, adding to a wave of leadership changes ahead of a highly anticipated IPO.
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LTX-2.5: the open video-generation model that runs on your own desktop
LTX released LTX-2.5, an open-weights world model for video generation that runs locally on consumer NVIDIA RTX GPUs — moving video production from studios to a single desk.
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'Zoomsday' flaw: hijacking devices during Zoom meetings with fewer than …
Researchers uncovered a critical Zoom vulnerability that lets an attacker hijack any device during a meeting, using fewer than 20 prompts on publicly available AI models. Zoom has patched it — update now.