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Claude did not invent scorpion antivenom

An investment research firm wanted to prove AI could revolutionize drug development. So they teamed up with Anthropic to see whether an unreleased version of Claude could make scorpion antivenom. It couldn't. It came…

An AI agent in "Skynet mode" hijacks unprotected language models to launch self-sustaining cyberattacks

Security researchers at Symantec have found an offensive AI agent that hijacks unprotected language models on the web and uses them to attack servers, steal databases, and install cryptominers on its own. It runs…

Eiliko maker says it’s hiring an ‘independent security firm’ after Verge report on its insecure robots

Eiliko, a cute robot charm you can hang on your bag with built-in AI conversations, turned out to be a security nightmare. It told owners that "your secrets are safe with me," but hackers…

OpenAI agents analyze mouse brain data in 32 minutes, a job that would take humans months

OpenAI teamed up with PerturbAI and Scripps Research to deploy thousands of AI agents that analyzed biological data from millions of mouse cells. The article OpenAI agents analyze mouse brain data in 32 minutes,…

Hugging Face’s New AI Biology Model Lets You Chat With DNA

The new open-source model speaks the language of DNA and can help researchers understand the effects of any changes on gene activity and health.

Making the case for context-aware AI

Enterprise AI can generate recommendations, automate tasks, and help organizations make decisions faster. But without an understanding of how a business actually operates, even powerful models can miss the constraints and relationships that determine…

AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind

Ask most executives to picture the cost of AI and they’ll likely see GPUs—racks of accelerators with gigawatts of power—and a waitlist for silicon. But that picture leaves something out: Data storage costs. What…

Anthropic takes on Grok Bot, Meta's Muse, and OpenAI's Dots with its always-on agent "Claude Duet"

Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent that handles tasks on its own, even when the user is offline. The app is built on Claude Opus 5.5 and connects to services like…

Ensemble forecasting with IBM Granite time-series models

IBM AI Releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B for Multilingual Transcription and Translation

IBM released Granite Speech 5.0 2B, an Apache 2.0 speech recognition and translation model. It ranks #2 on the Open ASR Leaderboard with 5.68% average English WER, alongside updated Turbo CTC and 4.1 2B…

What FDE means at OpenAI

What forward deployed engineering means at OpenAI

Leading European Financial Services Organizations Embrace Open Models to Build Proprietary Intelligence

At GTC Berlin, banks, payment companies and financial data providers are showing what production-scale intelligence looks like — built on NVIDIA accelerated computing, powered by open weight models and running on their own infrastructure.…