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Introducing new capabilities to GPT-Rosalind

GPT-Rosalind advances life sciences research with enhanced biological reasoning, medicinal chemistry expertise, genomics analysis, and experimental workflow capabilities.

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NVIDIA Research Unlocks Advanced Grasping, Smarter Autonomous Driving and Agent Training at Scale

What makes a robot gripper useful isn’t that it can pick up one object — it’s that it can pick up the next one, and the one after that, with a tool it’s never held before. What makes an autonomous vehicle system safe isn’t just that it can reason through a situation — it’s that […]

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Google releases macOS versions of AI Edge Gallery, which lets users run open models on their devices, and AI Edge Eloquent, an on-device voice dictation app (Google Developers Blog)

Google Developers Blog: Google releases macOS versions of AI Edge Gallery, which lets users run open models on their devices, and AI Edge Eloquent, an on-device voice dictation app — Google DeepMind's latest open model, Gemma 4 12B, is designed to bring agentic, multimodal intelligence directly to your laptop.

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Sources: Lila Sciences, which uses AI tools to speed up the rate of scientific discovery, is in talks to raise a $2B Series B at an expected valuation of ~$8.5B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Lila Sciences, which uses AI tools to speed up the rate of scientific discovery, is in talks to raise a $2B Series B at an expected valuation of ~$8.5B — Artificial intelligence research startup Lila Sciences Inc. is in talks to raise about $2 billion at an expected valuation …

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NVIDIA acquired Kumo, which sells predictive AI software to enterprises, a source says for $400M+; PitchBook: Kumo raised $37M at a $250M valuation in 2022 (The Information)

The Information: Nvidia acquired Kumo, which sells predictive AI software to enterprises, a source says for $400M+; PitchBook: Kumo raised $37M at a $250M valuation in 2022 — Nvidia has bought Kumo AI, a five-year-old startup that sells predictive AI software to enterprises, for more than $400 million, said a...

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Security firm Calif says it used OpenAI's Codex to discover HTTP/2 Bomb, a remote DoS exploit affecting web servers like Nginx, Apache HTTPD, and Microsoft IIS (The Hacker News)

The Hacker News: Security firm Calif says it used OpenAI's Codex to discover HTTP/2 Bomb, a remote DoS exploit affecting web servers like Nginx, Apache HTTPD, and Microsoft IIS — Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a remote denial-of-service exploit that affects major web servers, including NGINX …

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OpenAI diverges from Trump's AI EO in a new policy paper, proposing cyber risk evaluations for advanced AI systems be mandatory and led by CAISI, not the NSA (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

Brendan Bordelon / Politico: OpenAI diverges from Trump's AI EO in a new policy paper, proposing cyber risk evaluations for advanced AI systems be mandatory and led by CAISI, not the NSA — OpenAI's new proposal comes as its CEO Sam Altman descends on Washington for a series of Wednesday meetings with White House...

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Collate, whose AI tools automate paperwork for life sciences companies, raised $95M led by Redpoint at a ~$1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $125M (Amy Feldman/Forbes)

Amy Feldman / Forbes: Collate, whose AI tools automate paperwork for life sciences companies, raised $95M led by Redpoint at a ~$1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $125M — In this week's edition of InnovationRx, we look at cancer breakthroughs from the ASCO conference, Clear's move into healthcare,...

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Terra AI, which develops AI models for mining companies to better map underground resources, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)

Katie Fehrenbacher / Axios: Terra AI, which develops AI models for mining companies to better map underground resources, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures — Mining AI startup Terra AI closed a $20 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures and including the VC arm of mining giant BHP, CEO John Mern tells...

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Town, which is developing personalized AI assistants that connect to users' email and calendar, raised a $55M Series A led by a16z (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Town, which is developing personalized AI assistants that connect to users' email and calendar, raised a $55M Series A led by a16z — Jean-Denis Gréze's AI assistant is a silver fox who wears a little satchel, and her name is Ivy. — Ivy is Gréze's Townie …

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Wordsmith, whose AI tools help in-house lawyers draft contracts, handle legal questions, and more, raised a $70M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M (Melia Russell/Business Insider)

Melia Russell / Business Insider: Wordsmith, whose AI tools help in-house lawyers draft contracts, handle legal questions, and more, raised a $70M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M — The biggest promise of artificial intelligence in law is not that lawyers will work faster.

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Lassie, whose AI agent helps dental practices automate admin work, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, a source says, at a ~$250M valuation (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)

Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: Lassie, whose AI agent helps dental practices automate admin work, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, a source says, at a ~$250M valuation — Lassie's founders went hands-on, then built an AI agent to help dental practices save dozens of hours of busywork. Now, a16z has signed on.

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Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft aims to become "one of the top four labs in the world", and "the pivotal moment was renegotiating our contract with OpenAI" (The Verge)

The Verge: Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft aims to become “one of the top four labs in the world”, and “the pivotal moment was renegotiating our contract with OpenAI” — At Microsoft's annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives …

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Anthropic unveils a Services Track for its Claude Partner Network, a ranking based on what companies built with Claude, and releases a Claude Partner Hub portal (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic unveils a Services Track for its Claude Partner Network, a ranking based on what companies built with Claude, and releases a Claude Partner Hub portal — AI giant is solidifying its Claude Partner Network to help demonstrate ‘durability of revenue’ as it nears going public

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The EU's Cloud and AI Development Act aims to triple data center capacity in five to seven years; the Chips Act 2.0 recommends allowing direct EU investments (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: The EU's Cloud and AI Development Act aims to triple data center capacity in five to seven years; the Chips Act 2.0 recommends allowing direct EU investments — The European Union unveiled a sweeping plan to expand its domestic technology supply chains, targeting greater independence …

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AI market research platform AlphaSense raised $350M from Vitruvian, Accenture, and others at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4B in 2024, ahead of a possible IPO (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: AI market research platform AlphaSense raised $350M from Vitruvian, Accenture, and others at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4B in 2024, ahead of a possible IPO — Firm raises $350 million from investors including Accenture and JPMorgan's asset-management unit.

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How OpenAI, Anthropic, and AI startups are pursuing "recursive self-improvement", in a bid to build AI that can improve itself with little to no human input (Financial Times)

Financial Times: How OpenAI, Anthropic, and AI startups are pursuing “recursive self-improvement”, in a bid to build AI that can improve itself with little to no human input — Industry chiefs say technology within their grasp is the key to superintelligence. Safety experts say we're not ready.

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The US data center build-out is falling behind schedule; JP Morgan says 60%+ of data center capacity planned for completion in 2027 isn't yet under construction (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)

Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: The US data center build-out is falling behind schedule; JP Morgan says 60%+ of data center capacity planned for completion in 2027 isn't yet under construction — Google, which is raising a fresh $80 billion, has a strategy for getting around the biggest bottleneck

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Israeli startup ZutaCore, which builds direct-to-chip liquid data center cooling systems, raised a $100M Series C from Mitsubishi and more at a $600M valuation (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli startup ZutaCore, which builds direct-to-chip liquid data center cooling systems, raised a $100M Series C from Mitsubishi and more at a $600M valuation — Samsung, Mitsubishi Electric and Carrier back data center infrastructure company from Sderot.

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OpenAI has introduced biological reasoning and workflow capabilities to its GPT-Rosalind model, expanding vetted developer and government access for public health, biodefense, and pandemic preparedness initiatives.
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Anthropic has updated its model lineup with Claude Opus 4.8, targeting improved reliability and performance in coding, professional workflows, and long-running agentic tasks.
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Multiple enterprises are integrating OpenAI's Codex to automate software development workflows, reporting accelerated engineering timelines, enhanced test coverage, and faster defect remediation across various production environments.
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OpenAI has made its frontier models and Codex generally available on Amazon Web Services, offering enterprises an alternative deployment path integrated with their existing procurement and cloud controls.
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Anthropic has introduced a services track and partner hub to its partner network, aiming to simplify how corporate customers deploy and manage enterprise AI systems.
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Anthropic has upgraded its model offerings with Claude Opus 4.8 and expanded its cybersecurity vulnerability program to provide critical infrastructure organizations with secure access to its systems.
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OpenAI has expanded availability of its Codex tools to Amazon Web Services and introduced new capabilities aimed at integrating agentic software across corporate workflows and software development teams.
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As hyperscalers expand physical infrastructure through projects in Michigan and Sweden, major operators are addressing community concerns regarding the intensive water consumption of data centers.
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