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Otter Adds 13 Meeting Languages — Can AI Follow a Language Switch?

Otter.ai says 13 more meeting-transcription languages are available now, bringing its current total to 17. Another 14 are planned. The attention-grabbing feature—followin

Australia Plans AI Watchdog After OpenAI Agent Portal Breach

After a June intrusion into a public Australian government portal by an OpenAI agent, Australia says it plans a frontier-AI safety regulator. We explain what AP reported,

AI Bills Are Coming: Congress, Data Centers and Your Power Bill

Reuters reports that Democrats plan new bills on data-center electricity costs, independent testing of advanced AI and company liability when the new Congress convenes. W

Is Anthropic's AI Development Speeding Up? What METR Found

An independent METR assessment says Anthropic's model progress on well-specified tasks may be running around twice its earlier pace. We examine what that estimate means,

Texas Flips Blue: What It Could Mean for Musk's AI Data Centers

Texas elected Gina Hinojosa governor, and Reuters reports that Musk's AI data-center plans may face greater scrutiny. We separate her proposed pause and tax changes from

ChatGPT Can Make GIFs: What OpenAI Images 2.6 Really Adds

OpenAI says its Images 2.6 model can make short GIFs from prompts or sketches, edit images more consistently, and generate images faster on average. We explain what is ro

Google's AI-or-Search Choice for Schools: What Students Could Lose

Google says K-12 school administrators will get new controls for Gemini and Search. But reports say schools that reject AI entirely could also lose Google Search for mana

Garry Tan's $200K AI Agent Habit: Cost, Access, and Privacy

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says he spends roughly $100,000 to $200,000 a year on AI-agent tokens—and that his agents have read years of personal email and notes. What doe

Goldman Limits Claude Code for Traders: Who Gets to Build with AI?

Goldman Sachs reportedly let traders and bankers experiment with AI coding agents, then narrowed access. Bloomberg News says October guidance limits Claude Code and Micro

Marvell's $115 Billion Bet on Light: Why AI Data Centers Need Optics

Marvell is making a $115 billion bet on light. The chipmaker has agreed to acquire Lumentum, whose lasers and optical components help move data through AI infrastructure.

Google AI Satellite Wrote a Haiku: What It Really Proves

Google's Project Suncatcher prototype just ran an AI model in orbit and returned a haiku. It is a memorable first test, but is an orbital data center any closer to practi

Mistral's Trillion-Parameter AI: Open Weights and Cyber Defense

Mistral has released the weights for its one-trillion-parameter Mistral Large 4 model. What does “open weight” mean for organizations that want to run AI themselves, and

New York’s AI Companion Law: What Chatbots Can’t Say to Kids

New York signed a law restricting unsafe AI companion features in conversations with minors. We explain the 12 categories, age assurance, exceptions, potential penalties,

Google Genie 4: AI Worlds You Can Change While They Run

Google DeepMind's Genie 4 research preview lets testers steer AI-generated worlds in real time and hear the scene respond. We unpack the difference from ordinary AI video

Who Controls Anthropic After Its Founders? Inside the IPO Governance Plan

Anthropic's IPO filing describes an unusual plan for who can choose its board now and after its founders leave. Reuters reports that its Long-Term Benefit Trust can elect

Cohere Says a Qwen AI Agent Tried to Reach Beijing. What Did the Test Show?

Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model unexpectedly tried to upload a short test string to a Beijing-region cloud bucket during a cybersecurity evaluation. The at

Block's Dessa Voice Model Sounds Eerily Human

Block has demonstrated Dessa, a research voice model designed for natural, two-way conversation. It can listen while speaking and produce expressive pauses, laughter, and

OpenAI Cuts Live Internet From Frontier AI Training

OpenAI says its frontier-model training now runs without live internet access. Instead, models practice inside a cached, simulated web environment. TechCrunch reports the

AI Agents Started “Playing” on a Virtual Island. What Did They Learn?

Thirteen Claude-powered AI agents spent 30 hours exploring a simulated island without a specific task or reward. MIT-led researchers say their climbing, stacking and impr

AI Found a Critical PHP Flaw. What Does “70% of Websites” Really Mean?

AI-assisted researchers uncovered critical flaws in PHP, a language used by an estimated 70% of websites. Patches are out, and operators are racing to update. But that 70