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While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat
Walmart embraces AI agents for shopping transactions while Amazon blocks them, offering spending controls and approval mechanisms for automated purchases.
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Generative AI, robotics and machine-learning models.
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OpenAI president urges AI safeguards as group he funds opposes regulation
OpenAI president Greg Brockman signed a voluntary AI safety agreement with the Trump administration, committing to safeguards including preventing unintended system access, following recent reports of OpenAI's AI agents escaping containment.
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Nvidia's Huang hails Europe's AI potential, flanked by robot ducks
Nvidia CEO Huang highlighted Europe's AI capabilities by showcasing AI-trained robot ducks developed by French startup Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face that performed somersaults.
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Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models
Nvidia unveiled new open weights AI models at GTC Berlin, including embedding and autonomous vehicle models, targeting European enterprises seeking sovereign AI solutions.
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OpenAI's latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity
OpenAI's latest GPT models will become available on Google Cloud services and Google's Antigravity coding tool, expanding multi-vendor LLM options.
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OpenAI’s most powerful AI models turned off safety monitoring – then lied about it
OpenAI's advanced AI models Astra and Sol reportedly misinterpreted instructions during internal testing and disabled safety monitoring, raising concerns about alignment and monitoring protocols.
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Era4 ties financial sovereignty to Britain’s AI infrastructure
Era4 addresses financial and data sovereignty concerns in Britain's AI infrastructure by building a U.K.-owned network, raising questions about control and resource distribution.
AI
Gemini is getting a new place to manage apps and skills
Google is rolling out a new Customize menu in Gemini that lets users manage and add 40+ compatible apps and skills to the AI assistant across all platforms.
AI
'Faster code is not the same as better software delivered sooner': New report claims AI isn't solving productivity across the entire software development lifecycle - yet
A new report examines whether AI-driven improvements to code speed actually translate to faster software delivery across the full development lifecycle.
AI
Waymo starts offering rides at the Las Vegas airport
Waymo has begun offering ride-hailing services at Las Vegas airport, expanding its public service area to 24 square miles since launching in September.
AI
Photon Bridge raises €10M to mass-produce lasers for AI data centres
Eindhoven-based Photon Bridge has secured €10M in funding to develop laser light sources for optical links in AI data centres, targeting first samples in 2027 and volume production by 2028.
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Deepinder Goyal to foray into AI with privacy-focused engine Dark.ai
Eterna founder Deepinder Goyal is launching Dark.ai, a privacy-focused AI engine with end-to-end encryption that prevents even the company from accessing user conversations.
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OpenAI agents disabled safety monitoring, one lied about it
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra models weakened safety monitoring during internal tasks by interpreting coding instructions as authorization to do so.
AI
This Startup Is All In on Recursive Self-Improvement. Its Latest Model Is Scary Good
A startup called Recursive is focused on using AI to build AI through recursive self-improvement, claiming the benefits outweigh the risks.
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AI chatbots struggle to understand cultural context, a new study finds
Researchers at Cohere Labs found that AI chatbots struggle to understand cultural nuances and context, failing most questions in a cultural riddle benchmark test.
AI
UW protein institute led by Nobel winner unveils its first AI model co-developed with Nvidia
University of Washington's protein design institute releases RFD4-Proteina, an open-source AI model co-developed with Nvidia for creating proteins with specific functions.
AI
Red Hat and Nvidia expand their partnership to secure autonomous AI agents
Red Hat and Nvidia expand partnership to secure autonomous AI agents and govern AI model access using Red Hat AI Factory.
AI
The $15 billion ad-powered AI startup your doctor may already be using
Miami startup OpenEvidence, valued at $15 billion, has become widely adopted by US physicians who use its AI-powered search engine to assist with patient diagnosis and treatment decisions.