The World Health Organization says it wants more information on what caused the death of an employee at a Russian plague research lab. Russia says the woman died of pneumonia of unknown origin.
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Nous Research Inc., the developer of the popular Hermes artificial intelligence agent, today announced that it has raised $90 million in funding. Early-stage startup fund Robot Ventures led the Series B round. It was joined by Nvidia Corp., Samsung Electronics Co., Y Combinator and several others. N
Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.
The developer of Hermes Agent raised a $90 million Series B.
OpenAI Group PBC says ChatGPT is moving away from its traditional wall-of-text responses and giving users a more interactive user interface to play with. In a media briefing today, the company said its GPT-6 models will now be able to access an “Intelligent UI” that will allow the chatbot to generat
Google LLC is making its SynthID identification tools for artificial intelligence-created and AI-edited videos and images more widely available with the launch of a new service today that everyone can use. The web-based SynthID Detector can identify images, video and audio clips that have been creat
Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.
OpenAI is launching a new Intelligent UI feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to answer your questions with interactive visuals. The update, which is rolling out to all users alongside GPT-6, gives ChatGPT the ability to combine a text response with diagrams, charts, forms, tappable buttons, a
ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially encourages unhealthy relationships with the AI itself.
OpenAI Group PBC has published 722 math papers that it generated using an unreleased artificial intelligence model. Some of the papers, which were posted to GitHub late Tuesday, prove long-running hypotheses. Others disapprove proposed explanations of mathematical phenomena or narrow down the possib
OpenAI is launching a new user interface that will bring interactive visuals to ChatGPT.
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT for all users with an “Intelligent UI” that’s more visual—generating interactive elements as part of the chatbot’s outputs.
Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million into an initiative to create a "virtual cell" that researchers can use to combat disease, as reported earlier by Reuters. The project is led by Biohub, a nonprofit biomedical research organization
OpenAI is bringing new tools to ChatGPT for Teens, a mode for teens introduced in August with safeguards and break reminders, to help users with the college application process. "College Planner brings together application requirements, deadlines, tasks, and financial-aid steps for schools on a stud
College Planner is coming to ChatGPT for Teens to help students manage college applications, alongside new flashcards, quizzes, and a teen AI council.
The US government’s Tradewinds initiative has made it easier to throw millions of dollars at “nontraditional” defense contractors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 starts at $0.10 per million input tokens, keeps 1M context, scores 72.4% on OSWorld. The post Anthropic Releases Claude Haiku 5.5: A Small Model With 1M Context Priced at $0.10 per Million Input Tokens appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Liquid AI has released Open d1, two open-weight multimodal models in its d1 decision model family. d1-3B reads text and images. d1-omni-600M reads text with an image, or text with audio. Neither model writes text. Each returns calibrated, typed answers in one forward pass with zero output tokens. Th
After launching nearly a month ago and spending several weeks as the top free app in Apple's App Store, the latest update to Meta's Muse iOS app introduces native support for the iPad. A Mac version of Meta's agentic AI tool (designed to compete with OpenClaw, ChatGPT's Dots, and Grok Bot) was relea
Dots are designed to automate online tasks, like buying furniture. In my initial experience, the always-on agent was a bit buggy and couldn’t complete a captcha.