US surveillance law to expire for first time after lawmakers reject Trump’s controversial pick to lead spy agencies

The House of Representatives has failed to renew the U.S. government’s warrant-less surveillance law before it is due to expire on Friday, all but guaranteeing that it will lapse for the first time, as lawmakers protest the appointment of a controversial Trump ally to oversee U.S. intelligence agencies. The House voted 218-198 on the bill,…

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Moonshot AI Launches Kimi Work, a Local Desktop Agent Reportedly Running on Kimi K2.6 With a 300-Sub-Agent Agent Swarm

Moonshot AI has introduced Kimi Work, an AI agent that runs on your own desktop. The Beijing-based AI entity announced it this week along with downloads for macOS and Windows. Kimi Work reads local files, drives your real browser, and runs scheduled tasks. It targets knowledge workers whose bottleneck is access to files and live…

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A Coding Implementation on MONAI for End-to-End 3D Spleen Segmentation Using UNet on Medical CT Volumes

In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end 3D medical image segmentation pipeline using MONAI to segment the spleen on the Medical Segmentation Decathlon Task09 dataset. We work with volumetric CT scans, apply medical imaging transformations such as orientation alignment, voxel-spacing normalization, intensity windowing, foreground cropping, and patch-based sampling, and then train a 3D UNet model…

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Zyphra Release Zamba2-VL: Hybrid Mamba2–Transformer Vision-Language Models That Cut Time-to-First-Token by About an Order of Magnitude

Zyphra has released Zamba2-VL, a family of open vision-language models. The release covers three sizes: 1.2B, 2.7B, and 7B parameters. Each model is built on the Zamba2 hybrid SSM–Transformer backbone. Vision-language models (VLMs) read images and text together. They answer questions about charts, documents, and photos. Most open VLMs use a dense Transformer as the…

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Cheaper, quicker, and culturally conscious, Avataar’s video AI is constructed for India’s scale

Cheaper, quicker, and culturally conscious, Avataar’s video AI is constructed for India’s scale

India’s AI mannequin output has been sluggish in comparison with the U.S., Europe, and China. Only some startups are releasing fashions, and most of them are giant language fashions or voice fashions. To encourage extra growth, the federal government launched the India AI Mission, a roughly $1.2 billion initiative that — amongst different issues —…

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xAI Ships Grok Build Plugin Marketplace With MongoDB, Vercel, Sentry, Chrome DevTools, Cloudflare, and Superpowers Plugins at Launch

Today, xAI shipped the Grok Build Plugin Marketplace. It is a built-in catalog of plugins for Grok Build, the company’s terminal coding agent. A plugin bundles skills, slash commands, agents, hooks, MCP servers, and LSPs into one package. You browse, install, and update these packages without leaving the terminal. Plugin Marketplace Grok Build is xAI’s…

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Perplexity Moves Deep Research Into Computer, Routing Research Subtasks Across 20+ Frontier Models For Reports, Decks, And Dashboards

Perplexity has moved Deep Research into Computer, its multi-model orchestration system. The upgrade improves accuracy, depth of analysis, and citation quality. Deep Research now breaks hard questions into subtasks and routes them across 20+ frontier models. It returns work-ready reports, decks, and dashboards, all inside Computer. Deep Research in Computer Deep Research is a mode…

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Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything

Humanoids aren’t quite ready to replace factory workers, but the industry can’t wait. Faced with labor shortages, manufacturers have shown growing interest in startups that promise faster automation without the usual tradeoffs. That’s the bet behind Theker, an AI robotics startup that aims to go beyond robots trained for a single task. “If you always…

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