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Ex-Anthropic researchers launch AI startup Mirendil to tackle scientific research

Another neo-lab enters the scene, this time from Anthropic's ranks: Mirendil wants to use AI to advance research in fields like biology and materials science. Founders Behnam Neyshabur (CEO) and Harsh ...
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Copilot Health marks Microsoft's entry into the AI health race alongside OpenAI and Anthropic

Microsoft is rolling out a dedicated health section inside its AI assistant Copilot. The service pulls health data from more than 50 wearable devices—including Apple Health, Oura, and Fitbit—along ...
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Meta's JEPA architecture outperforms standard AI methods in cardiac ultrasound analysis

Researchers have built an AI model for cardiac ultrasound based on Meta's JEPA architecture that outperforms common approaches like Masked Autoencoders and contrastive learning in their benchmarks.
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OpenAI employees hint at a new omni model

OpenAI appears to be developing a new multimodal model, potentially a successor to GPT-4o. Recent posts from OpenAI employees are fueling the speculation. Atty Eleti from the Voice team wrote that ...
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 saw through an AI test, cracked the encryption, and grabbed the answers itself

Anthropic's AI model Claude Opus 4.6 independently recognized that it was being tested in a web research benchmark, identified the specific benchmark, and cracked its encrypted answer key. After an ...
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Amazon gets court order blocking Perplexity's AI shopping agent

A federal court in San Francisco has granted Amazon an injunction against AI startup Perplexity, barring it from using its AI browser agent Comet to make purchases on Amazon. Amazon sued Perplexity in ...
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Study warns of "AI Brain Fry" as workers hit cognitive limits overseeing AI agents

The productivity curve is particularly revealing. Going from one to two simultaneous AI tools, perceived productivity rises significantly. At three tools, it peaks. Beyond four, it drops again.
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Claude Code gets parallel AI agents that review code for bugs and security gaps

Anthropic has released a code review feature for Claude Code that automatically checks changes for errors before they're merged. Multiple AI agents work in parallel to catch bugs, security ...
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OpenAI is building a GitHub competitor that could challenge its biggest investor

OpenAI is building its own alternative to GitHub, Microsoft's widely used platform for code management and collaboration, according to The Information. The move was triggered by a string of GitHub ...
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Hallucinated references are passing peer review at top AI conferences and a new open tool wants to fix that

Papers at leading AI conferences have been found to contain fabricated citations, a problem that is increasingly difficult to catch as reference lists have grown too long for manual review. The new ...
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AI agent benchmarks obsess over coding while ignoring 92% of the US labor market, study finds

A study by Carnegie Mellon and Stanford University reveals that current AI agent benchmarks are heavily skewed toward programming tasks, while economically significant fields like management or law ...
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A federal court in San Francisco has granted Amazon an injunction against AI startup Perplexity, barring it from using its AI browser agent Comet to make purchases on Amazon. Amazon sued Perplexity in ...