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• 🔥 MolmoAct2 Robotics Model: Ai2 released MolmoAct2 as a fully open robotics foundation model with weights, training...

Ai2 released MolmoAct2 as a fully open robotics foundation model that beats Physical Intelligence's π0.5 on benchmarks while shipping the largest open...

Alibaba Cloud external revenue rose 40% YoY with AI products nearing 30% of sales and triple-digit AI growth for the 11th straight quarter.

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• Underwriting speed: Loan approvals drop from 48 hours to 8 minutes with production AI
• Report automation: Generation time falls from 5 days to...

Power Mentor deploys 12 specialized AI coaching personas for real estate agents, delivering 24/7 personalized guidance on sales, mindset, and productivity while avoiding legal topics and outperforming market averages by 30%.

Enterprises are deploying narrow AI agents into existing workflows rather than chasing full autonomy.

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GE HealthCare is expanding its AWS partnership to embed cloud AI tools like SageMaker and EC2 directly into clinical imaging workflows, moving beyond...

AI translation tools create a false sense of coverage in clinical workflows, often producing fluent but imprecise outputs that bypass proper...

CATL, the world's largest EV battery maker, is in talks to join a major financing round for Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. A battery giant's interest in AI signals expanding investment beyond traditional tech sectors.

AMD plans to invest over $10 billion in Taiwan to expand AI chip production capacity and partner with ASE, SPIL, TSMC, and others on power-efficient...

Denmark's Perplant secured €1 million to scale its AI-driven tractor systems for plant-level crop monitoring and targeted spraying.

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Anthropic plans to release Mythos-class models to the public once stronger safeguards exist, while expanding Project Glasswing access to more...

The updated quora/model-deprecation-tracker gives developers clear timelines for OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex AI, Bedrock, and Gemini models, enabling...

AutoResearch AI survey charts the move from fragmented task assistance to full workflow automation across literature, hypothesis, experimentation, and...

Exa Labs raised $250 million in a Series C round led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2.2 billion valuation to train next-generation models and scale...

Spotify's AI music deal with Universal Music Group sparked a 19% stock surge by launching opt-in voice covers and remixes as a paid premium add-on, creating fresh revenue for both the platform and major artists.

Google Cloud's new equity-free accelerator connects Southeast Asian AI founders directly to Silicon Valley scaling resources through a three-month...

• Deal Details: Torq acquired Jit for its AI context graph that maps relationships between identities, endpoints, alerts and privileges, reportedly...

StepFun released StepAudio 2.5 Realtime, an end-to-end speech LLM for live assistants and bots with audio-in/audio-out design.

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