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Science Corporation, a startup developing novel brain-computer interfaces (BCI), won approval from Europe’s medical device regulator to begin selling a device that restores vision lost from age-related macular degeneration. The company said the device, called PRIMA, also received a designation from the US Food and Drug Administration that is the first step toward an expedited…
White House science advisor Michael Kratsios said that Moonshot, the Chinese company behind the Kimi K3, the largest available open-weight LLM, built its model by copying Anthropic’s Fable LLM while using chips that aren’t cleared for export to China. “Large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary U.S. technology and undermining American research is unacceptable,”…
Tokenization is the one part of the language modeling stack that almost nobody profiles. Gigatoken, released by Marcel Rød (a PhD student from Stanford) under an MIT license, argues that this was a mistake. The library encodes text at gigabytes per second on a single machine, against baselines that are…
Open speech recognition stopped being a Whisper monoculture some time in the last twelve months. In March 2026 Cohere released Transcribe, a 2B Apache 2.0 model that took the top of the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard at 5.42% average word error rate. Five weeks later IBM shipped Granite Speech 4.1 2B at 5.33%. Since…
Gu and the company aren’t ready to share specific details about what the iKairos will be capable of. In its press release, Lingverse says the iKairos will “continuously observe both you and your surroundings” and “begin to act as a personal AI guardian,” but did not clarify how that would function. iKairos works as both…
On Tuesday, OpenAI revealed that one of its models went rogue during a test and hacked the systems of AI dataset platform Hugging Face in a fully AI-enabled attack, a dramatic example of the dangers posed by advanced AI models. But, according to some cybersecurity experts, at the heart of this unprecedented AI-powered breach there…
Anthropic has released the Claude Security plugin for Claude Code in beta. The plugin runs a multi-agent vulnerability scan of a repository from inside an existing Claude Code session, then turns the findings you select into patch files that you review and apply yourself. Anthropic emphasized the tool’s versatility upon announcement, highlighting its capability to…
ServiceNow, the U.S. enterprise software program firm recognized for automating workflows like IT service administration and HR operations, is betting on an Indian banking software program specialist to deepen its push into international monetary providers. The corporate has invested $40 million in BusinessNext, valuing the 24-year-old Indian agency at $700 million and taking a roughly…
A day after Snap tentatively settled with the plaintiff in a social media habit lawsuit, leaving Meta as the one remaining defendant, the case has been dropped. In an announcement, Meta stated the plaintiff selected to drop his case in opposition to Meta with out receiving any fee. TikTok and Google’s YouTube had beforehand reached…
