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Google releases 9 demo videos of Gemini Omni and Gemini 3.5 from I/O 2026
At Google I/O 2026, the company unveiled demo videos for two new model families: Gemini Omni and Gemini 3.5 Flash. Gemini Omni is positioned as a multimodal generation model that accepts images, audio...
**ByteDance develops custom CPUs for AI inference amid chip supply crunch**
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is designing proprietary central processing units (CPUs) to support its growing AI infrastructure, three sources told Reuters. The company is pursuing two arch...
MiniMax teases M3 model with sparse attention, claiming 15.6x speed boost
Chinese foundation model lab MiniMax has previewed its upcoming M3 model, which incorporates a novel sparse attention mechanism designed to dramatically accelerate long-context inference. The company...
Human Archive raises $8.2M to use India's gig workers for robotic training data
Human Archive, a Silicon Valley startup founded by UC Berkeley and Stanford alumni, has raised $8.2 million from Wing Venture Capital, NVP Capital, Y Combinator, and angel investors from OpenAI, Nvidi...
Alibaba Cloud Launches Qwen 3.7-Max Agentic AI Model in Singapore
Chinese technology giant Alibaba Cloud has unveiled its next-generation AI model, Qwen 3.7-Max, during its inaugural international Qwen Conference in Singapore. The model reportedly features over one...
UniPat AI releases SaaS-Bench, Claude Opus 4.7 passes only 3.8% of 106 real-office tasks, breaking the illusion of full office automation.
The new SaaS-Bench benchmark from UniPat AI (UniPat AI) delivers a stark reality check for the computer-use agent (CUA) paradigm. Testing 23 real open-source SaaS systems deployed in Docker across six...
Ant Lingbo Technology (蚂蚁灵波科技) and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology published a paper,...
Ant Lingbo Technology (蚂蚁灵波科技) and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology published a paper, "Causal World Modeling for Robot Control," accepted at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2026. Th...
Vobiz.ai plans to fix voice AI experience in India with telecom infrastructure
Vobiz.ai has announced plans to address the poor voice AI experience in India by leveraging telecom infrastructure, aiming to improve call quality and latency for AI-powered voice applications. The co...
Anthropic publishes training method to suppress agentic misalignment in AI agents, highlighting limits of chat-based RLHF
Anthropic has published a new training technique designed to reduce "agentic misalignment" — the tendency for AI agents to pursue goals in inappropriate or unintended ways — in autonomous AI systems....
Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max ranks 5th globally and 1st in China on Artificial Analysis leaderboard
Alibaba's latest flagship foundation model, Qwen3.7-Max, has achieved the position globally and in China on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard, a third-party benchmarking platform that evaluates mo...
DeepSeek forms Harness code agent engineering team, signaling pivot from research lab to product company
DeepSeek has confirmed it is building a new team called "Harness" focused on code agent engineering, according to a recruitment post by senior researcher Chen Deli on Chinese social platform Xiaohongs...
Google I/O 2026: Gemini Omni Flash Bridges Reasoning and Creation for Video Generation
At Google I/O 2026, Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Omni Flash, the first model in the Omni family that can generate and edit videos from multimodal inputs including text, images, audio, and existin...
NetEase Youdao (网易有道) open-sources Confucius 4 foundation model with chain-of-thought compression for cost reduction
NetEase Youdao has released the 4.0 version of its vertical education foundation model, Confucius 4 (子曰4), under a fully open-source license. The 27B-parameter multimodal model achieves state-of-the-a...
Alibaba Cloud upgrades its full-stack Agent technology system, unveils in-house AI chip Zhenwu M890
Alibaba Cloud at a summit on May 20 announced a sweeping, Agent-first re-architecture of its entire technology stack spanning chips, cloud infrastructure, models, and inference. Key releases include t...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google DeepMind leadership unveiled the company's most significant prod...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google DeepMind leadership unveiled the company's most significant product refresh in 25 years at the I/O 2026 developer conference, centering on deeply embedding AI agent...
Ant Group launches new AI model and open-source strategy at Tech Day 2025
Ant Group, the Chinese fintech affiliate of Alibaba, unveiled a new proprietary AI foundation model and announced an open-source strategy during its 2025 Tech Day event in Shanghai. The company demons...
LetinAR raises $18.5M for AI glasses optics, targets 2027 IPO
South Korean startup LetinAR has raised $18.5 million from Korea Development Bank and Lotte Ventures, among others, ahead of a planned 2027 IPO. Founded in 2016 by CEO Jaehyeok Kim and CTO Jeonghun Ha...
**Weilan Tech's BabyAlpha A3 robot dog bypasses Nvidia compute stack with custom heterogeneous cluster**
Chinese robotics company Weilan Technology (蔚蓝科技) has unveiled the BabyAlpha A3, a consumer-grade quadruped robot that breaks from industry convention by replacing Nvidia's single-chip architecture wi...
SAP Blocks Open-Source AI Agents, Protecting Licensing Model and Proprietary AI Assistant Joule
German enterprise software giant SAP has begun actively blocking unauthorized open-source AI agents—specifically targeting the OpenClaw project—from accessing its core business applications. The compa...
OpenAI GPT-5.5 Tops AI Safety Institute Cybersecurity Evaluation, Outpaces Anthropic Mitos in Cybersecurity Evaluation
OpenAI's latest generative AI model, GPT-5.5, has achieved the highest score in a in cybersecurity capability evaluation conducted by the UK government's AI Safety Institute (AISI). According to a rep...