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Call for Tenders: European Data Market Study 2027–2028

Call for Tenders: European Data Market Study 2027–2028 dumimar Tue, 06/30/2026 - 14:43   Opening: 29 June 2026   Closing: 12 August 2026 This call for…

Import AI 464: Fables writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computation

Is this the beginning of a new world?…

ChinAI #365: Around the Horn (26th episode)

Greetings from a world where……

JADEPUFFER is the first agentic ransomware operation and it exposes old security sins at machine speed

Security firm Sysdig describes an extortion attack where a language model broke in on its own, stole credentials, and destroyed databases. No human appeared to …

Amazon sunsets Mechanical Turk, the original "Artificial Artificial Intelligence"

Amazon Web Services is shutting down its crowdsourcing service Mechanical Turk to new customers starting July 30, 2026. The article Amazon sunsets Mechanical Tu…

How Covista is changing education for healthcare professionals

Chairman and CEO Steve Beard explains how the organization’s multiyear transformation has reshaped its purpose, structure, and culture.…

Presidential Message on the Anniversary of the United States Secret Service

On the 161st anniversary of the United States Secret Service, we celebrate the extraordinary professionals who, with absolute selflessn…

America 250: Presidential Message on the Anniversary of the Battle of Chippawa

Today, our Nation commemorates the Battle of Chippawa—the historic victory in which American forces decisively defeated the British Army&#16…

Bridging Spherical Black-Box Optimizers

Learning Multi-Agent Coordination via Sheaf-ADMM

Sakana Translate：Sakana Chatが翻訳に対応、翻訳・添削・質問の3機能を搭載

Baidu's "Unlimited OCR" processes dozens of document pages in one pass by treating memory like human forgetting

Baidu's Unlimited OCR reads dozens of document pages in a single pass, where previous systems topped out at about ten. A modified attention mechanism keeps memo…

Claude Code and Fable 5 ported the 2003 PC game Command & Conquer to native iOS in "a few hours"

A Google Deepmind developer ported the 2003 real-time strategy game "Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour" to iPhone and iPad using Anthropic's Claude Cod…

Hollywood wants Seedance banned and reportedly also wants to keep using it

Bytedance's AI video tool Seedance is dividing Hollywood. A viral clip featuring AI-generated Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise prompted the Motion Picture Association's…

Mistral CEO Mensch says proprietary AI models give labs a front-row seat to your business processes

Mistral founder Arthur Mensch warns companies against relying on closed AI models. He claims AI labs are storing more and more customer data and have, in some c…

AI private schools sell wealthy US families on personalized learning over traditional education

Wealthy US families are increasingly sending their kids to AI schools like Alpha School, which combines two hours of AI tutoring with project-based workshops fo…

AI search agents don't fail at searching, they fail at asking the right questions when queries get ambiguous

AI search agents rarely fail at multi-step research because of the search itself. Their real problem is not asking the user for clarification when queries are a…

Saving America’s Story

The post Saving America’s Story appeared first on The White House.…

Open-source tool pxpipe hides text in PNGs to cut Claude Code and Fable 5 token costs up to 70%

The open-source tool pxpipe converts long text prompts for Claude Code into compact PNGs, exploiting the fact that Anthropic charges for images by pixel size, n…

Anthropic developer shares prompting tips for Fable 5 that focus on finding your own blind spots first

Anthropic developer Thariq Shihipar argues that with Claude's new model, Fable 5, the bottleneck is no longer the model itself but the user's blind spots. He de…

Anthropic launches its own drug discovery programs to tackle diseases Big Pharma considers unprofitable

Anthropic is launching its own drug development program for neglected diseases that the pharmaceutical industry considers unprofitable. Novartis CEO Vas Narasim…

A 26,000-student study shows AI's hidden learning cost takes two full years to surface

A study of more than 26,000 Chinese students found that AI users finished homework faster and scored higher but performed up to 24 percent worse on exams. The f…

OpenAI cofounder envisions "almost no interface" future where nobody learns software anymore

Greg Brockman admits ChatGPT's plugins, heavily marketed in 2023, failed "because the models weren't ready." Instead of app extensions, he sees the future in an…

Mistral's open-source Leanstral 1.5 aces formal math benchmarks and catches real bugs in code

Mistral AI released Leanstral 1.5, an open-source model for formal verification in Lean 4. Beyond math, the model found five previously unknown bugs while scann…

Claude Code v2.1.201

Microsoft follows Anthropic and OpenAI into the AI super app race with overhauled Copilot and AutoPilot agents

Microsoft reportedly plans to merge its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into a single app in August. Rarely used features like Copilot Podcasts are getting…

The only AI glossary you’ll need this year

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might en…

250th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Declaration of Independence

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Founders of our great Republic gathered in Philadelphia to …

The browser wars aren’t about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari

We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.…

Claude Code's complicated China problem involves bans on both sides of the Pacific

Anthropic is trying to block Chinese companies like ByteDance and Ant Financial from accessing Claude Code, but they're getting around the restrictions through …