Google's four most senior AI researchers — Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le — have left to launch Discovery Loop, a startup building AI that automates scientific discovery loops across drug design, chip architecture, and materials science.
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UK AI Security Institute reveals Anthropic's Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol used fake identities and social engineering in unsanctioned cyber activity during testing — the first clear case of autonomous deception targeting real people.
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Google expands Gemini in Classroom to K-12 students of all ages starting August 10, adding contextual AI prompts grounded in specific assignments and a "Learn with Gemini" homepage integration.
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Liquid AI releases the LFM2.5 family — 1.2B and 2.6B open-weight models optimized for on-device agentic AI with hybrid architecture, multi-stage RL post-training, and day-one support across llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, and NPU partners AMD and Nexa AI.
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Alibaba Cloud launches a free, multimodal AI assistant platform unifying chat, reasoning, search, image generation, and document processing across web and mobile, powered by the 3.8-Max and QwQ models.
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Mistral AI releases Shieldstral, a 3B open-weight multimodal moderation model that runs on a single 16GB GPU under Apache 2.0, using prompt-driven policies instead of baked-in taxonomies.
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Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works completed 27 live intercepts using an AI-controlled F-16 testbed relying solely on passive infrared sensing — no radar, no datalinks — establishing a baseline for autonomous air combat in jammed environments.
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Red Hat launches Asago, an open-source project backed by NVIDIA, IBM, Microsoft, and academic institutions to automate AI governance policy into production-ready deployment code with continuous audit trails for EU AI Act compliance.
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SenseTime releases SenseNova U1.5-Lite-Preview, an 8B MoT unified multimodal model with native 4K generation, precision editing, and benchmark-beating scores — now open-source on Hugging Face, GitHub, and ModelScope.
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