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A United Arab Emirates Lab Announces Frontier AI Projects—and a New Outpost in Silicon Valley

An academic lab in the United Arab Emirates today launched an artificial intelligence world model and agent, two large language models (LLMs), and a new research center in Silicon Valley as the...

Jack Dorsey’s Block Made an AI Agent to Boost Its Own Productivity

At a company-wide hackathon this month, developers at finance firm Block built a dizzying number of prototype tools including a database debugger, a program for identifying duplicated code, and an app that...

Google’s AI Boss Says Gemini’s New Abilities Point the Way to AGI

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, says that reaching artificial general intelligence or AGI—a fuzzy term typically used to describe machines with human-like cleverness—will mean honing some of the nascent abilities found...

OpenAI Launches an Agentic, Web-Based Coding Tool

OpenAI is launching a cloud-based software engineering agent called Codex as the hype surrounding building software using AI continues gathering pace. This tool, aimed more at professional coders rather than amateur vibe...

The Middle East Has Entered the AI Group Chat

Donald Trump’s jaunt to the Middle East featured an entourage of billionaire tech bros, a fighter-jet escort, and business deals designed to reshape the global landscape of artificial intelligence.On the final stop...

Google DeepMind’s AI Agent Dreams Up Algorithms Beyond Human Expertise

A key question in artificial intelligence is how often models go beyond just regurgitating and remixing what they have learned and produce truly novel ideas or insights.A new project from Google DeepMind...

Singapore’s Vision for AI Safety Bridges the US-China Divide

The government of Singapore released a blueprint today for global collaboration on artificial intelligence safety following a meeting of AI researchers from the US, China, and Europe. The document lays out a...

Amazon Has Made a Robot With a Sense of Touch

Amazon has developed a new warehouse robot that uses touch to rummage around shelves to find the right product to ship to customers.The robot, called Vulcan, is a meaningful step towards making...

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