The same evidence now supports two very different readings. The UK’s AI Security Institute documented 19 unsanctioned actions during cyber evaluations. Meta’s test sandbox failed to contain a model attacking a real company. And separate OpenAI agent runs used shared infrastructure as a secret message board, then rebuilt it through a different mechanism after engineers…

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Stanford researchers have synthesised nearly 300 phages from DNA sequences produced by the Evo 2 generative AI model. Laboratory testing narrowed the group to 16 phages that showed particularly strong E. coli-killing activity. The work centres on bacteriophage ΦX174, pronounced “FYE-ex-1-7-4”. Brian Hie, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and Dieter Schwarz Foundation Stanford Data…

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Every post you see, every Reel that autoplays, and every ‘Explore’ page suggestion on Instagram is now decided by its AI system. With over three billion people using it, that’s not a small detail; it’s the whole algorithm. But here’s the point: the more AI controls over how you see the content, the more it…

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Alibaba plans to introduce revenue-sharing terms for some commercial users of its next Qwen open-weight AI model, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the company’s plans. The arrangement would require larger companies that generate revenue from offering the model as a service to reach a commercial agreement with Alibaba. The exact revenue-sharing rate has…

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MIT researchers and collaborators found that AI explainability tools in the health sector can produce sharply different results depending on who uses them. When applied to skin disease diagnosis, non-experts improved their accuracy with AI assistance, although the improvement largely came from deferring to the model. Primary care providers showed a different pattern: they performed…

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Built by Paige and Microsoft, PRISM2 reads whole-slide images through a perceiver-based encoder trained jointly on tissue tiles and clinical dialogue drawn from pathology reports. The model aggregates thousands of tile embeddings per slide into one representation, then generates text that answers diagnostic questions rather than simply classifying pixels.  Training data spans 2.3 million whole-slide…

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Red Hat has launched asago, an open-source community project that aims to turn AI governance policy into production-ready deployment code. The project describes itself as an automated, auditable workflow that connects the “fragmented steps, tools, and requirements” of engineering and compliance teams. With regulation such as the EU AI Act now taking effect, Red Hat…

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Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model to date, as DeepSeek’s latest V4-Flash model draws attention for inference pricing that is lower than several competing systems. Qwen3.8-Max has 2.4 trillion parameters and uses a mixture-of-experts architecture, which activates only part of the model for each request. Alibaba said around 95 billion parameters are active…

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Insider Brief Lumilens emerged from stealth with more than $900 million raised, including a fresh $700 million-plus Series C that values the AI data-center networking startup at $5.51 billion. Atreides Management, Bain Capital Ventures, Meritech, Seligman Ventures and Spark Capital co-led the round, with participation from Addition, Alkeon, HarbourVest, J.P. Morgan Private Capital, Mayfield, MVP…

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OpenAI has filed a motion to dismiss Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit, arguing that Apple’s own security and offboarding practices undermine its claim that the information in question qualifies as legally protected. Apple’s complaint, filed in July, alleged that OpenAI orchestrated a scheme to obtain confidential hardware information through former Apple engineers. Apple recently asked the…

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