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  1. The DecoderAI score75

    ChatGPT with GPT-6 replaces mostly text answers with interactive UI and mini apps

    AIOpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with an "Intelligent UI" that presents answers as interactive graphics, buttons, charts, and forms instead of plain text. Users can also build small tools such as a savings calculator or a game inside the chat. The rollout starts globally today for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, with Free and Go users following one day later.

  2. TechCrunch · AIAI score58

    Microsoft launches Surface Laptop Ultra and Dev Box with Nvidia RTX Spark chips for AI PCs

    AIMicrosoft revealed prices and specs for its Surface Laptop Ultra, built on Nvidia's RTX Spark chip, starting at $2,600 and designed to run AI models locally on the device. It also announced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, starting at $6,000 with developer tools, and a Windows 11 feature called Execution Containers for sandboxing AI agents, which will reach all Windows 11 users.

  3. TechCrunch · AIAI score67

    Nous Research raises $90M at $1.5B valuation to push Hermes for Businesses

    AINous Research, developer of the open source Hermes Agent, raised a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation led by Robot Ventures. The capital will fund its enterprise push with Hermes for Businesses, which lets companies deploy customized AI agents for multi-step workflows while keeping data private. The article reports about $36 million in annualized revenue by mid-September 2026, citing The Wall Street Journal.

  4. TechCrunch · AIAI score62

    Goodfire launches inside-out monitors to catch rogue AI agents at lower cost

    AIGoodfire has launched monitors that read a model's internal signals during agent work instead of reviewing its written output. The monitors are available to Baseten customers, who can choose risks to watch and set automated responses. In Goodfire's tests on Kimi K3, monitoring about 1,500 sessions cost roughly $51 versus about $10,000 for a top-tier AI judge, while catching 94% of malicious hacking sessions.

  5. TechCrunch · AIAI score43

    Natura's $99 Interface smart ring lets users control AI agents with a finger press

    AINatura's Interface is a $99 smart ring that lets users ask AI agents to complete tasks with a finger press and also tracks heart rate, HRV, sleep, and activity. At launch it connects with Meta's Muse, Instinct, Grok Bot, Claude, ChatGPT, and more, with preorders expected next month and shipping slated for December or January. After a three- to six-month free period, Natura plans to charge a $9 monthly subscription.

  6. Latent SpaceAI score32

    OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers Tied to METR Audit Dispute

    AIThree OpenAI safety researchers, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang, say they were fired last week for prioritizing safety over OpenAI's corporate interests, and published a letter to leadership. OpenAI reportedly says the three mishandled confidential information, while Korbak, who was the company's main technical contact with METR, says the dispute centered on his communications with METR.

  7. Microsoft CopilotAI score29

    Copilot on Windows gains Hybrid Intelligence, blending cloud and local agents

    AIMicrosoft Copilot announced Hybrid Intelligence for Windows, which balances cloud and locally run agents to handle tasks like file wrangling and workflows on the PC. According to Satya Nadella, Copilot can use context on the PC with user permission and draw on local models when appropriate. The feature is described as coming soon.

  8. Databricks BlogAI score40

    Databricks Launches Beta Workday Data Connect Federation for Unity Catalog

    AIDatabricks has released a public Beta of a Workday Data Connect federation connector for Unity Catalog, letting teams query Workday HR and finance data in place without copying it. Workday administrators share approved tables through Workday Data Cloud, and Databricks administrators create an OAuth connection and foreign catalog to govern access. The data is read-only, and Workday remains the system of record.

  9. Testing CatalogAI score62

    Atomic Agent Desktop, an open-source local AI agent app, is now available

    AIAtomic Agent Desktop is a free open-source app for macOS, Windows, and Linux that runs open models like Qwen and Gemma locally without an account. It connects to a cloud model only when selected, and its Fusion feature lets a cloud model plan a task while up to 8 local agents carry it out. The post's own text adds a setup wizard that checks RAM and suggests suitable models, and import from Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, and OpenClaw.

  10. GoogleAI score62

    Google's AMIE Diagnostic Chatbot Studied Prospectively in Real Clinical Setting

    AIGoogle reports that its medical research system AMIE, described as the first patient-facing conversational diagnostic tool of its kind studied prospectively in a real-world clinical setting, was evaluated in a study published in The Lancet. Patients who chatted with AMIE before in-person appointments reported stronger confidence and better organized thoughts. Physicians reviewing the pre-visit conversation information gained more time for collaborative care and shared decision-making instead of digging through data.

  11. Artificial AnalysisAI score42

    Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite ranks #17 in video arena at lower cost

    AISpaceXAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite ranks #17 on both AA-Video-T2V v2.0 leaderboards, ahead of Google's Veo 3.1 at about a third of its price. It is the fastest model at its quality level in Artificial Analysis benchmarks, with a median of 60.5 seconds for a 10-second 1080p clip, and it costs $0.14 per second at 1080p, 56% of Grok Imagine Video 1.5's $0.25 per second.

  12. Databricks BlogAI score40

    Funke Brings Native HL7v2 Parsing to Databricks Lakehouse

    AIDatabricks has released Funke, a Python and PySpark library and deployable pipeline that parses HL7v2 healthcare messages into native Spark types while preserving the full message hierarchy. It succeeds Smolder, the Scala data source Databricks open-sourced in 2021, and ingests through Auto Loader into Unity Catalog bronze and silver tables. Users can query segments, fields, components, and subcomponents directly with DataFrame or Spark SQL expressions.

  13. Databricks BlogAI score38

    Lakebase Branches Give Parallel Coding Agents Isolated Databases

    AIDatabricks introduces database branching in Lakebase Postgres, letting each coding agent work in its own isolated database branch created in under a second regardless of size. Branches use copy-on-write storage, consuming extra space only as they diverge, and scale to zero when idle so unused branches incur no compute cost. Schema changes are tracked in code and promoted to the parent branch through migrations rather than merged back, and ephemeral branches are created per pull request for testing.

  14. SiliconANGLE · AIAI score42

    Isomorphic Labs reportedly raising funds at up to $50B valuation

    AIAlphabet spinoff Isomorphic Labs is reportedly in early-stage talks to raise a new funding round at a valuation of $40 billion to $50 billion, according to Bloomberg, which did not specify the round's size. Isomorphic's flagship AI platform, IsoDDE, is designed to automate binding pocket discovery, which it says is more than 50% better than the closest competing tool, and it models antibody interactions about 2.3 times better than AlphaFold. The company earns revenue through research partnerships with Eli Lilly, Novartis and Johnson & Johnson.

  15. SiliconANGLE · AIAI score36

    CoreWeave Forge Aims to Speed Up the AI Agent Improvement Loop

    AICoreWeave launched Forge, a platform meant to help teams run, observe, evaluate and improve AI agents continuously through a five-stage loop. The offering includes Agent Lens, Registry, RL Rollouts, model distillation, and the AI Research and Iteration Agent (ARIA), which is now generally available. CoreWeave also introduced a partner network of tested, co-engineered integrations, according to Susanne Seitinger, vice president of product marketing.

  16. NVIDIA NewsroomAI score46

    Developers Use Frontier AI Agents to Build NVIDIA Omniverse Simulations

    AINVIDIA developers are pairing frontier AI models, including GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5, with Omniverse libraries to turn simulation ideas into working applications. Examples include a humanoid warehouse simulator, an autonomous-driving testing workflow, and sensor-matching digital twins. The projects are guided through natural-language instructions and reviewed by developers.

  17. NVIDIA BlogAI score49

    How Developers Use Frontier AI Agents to Build Omniverse Simulations

    AIDevelopers are pairing frontier AI models with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries to turn simulation ideas into working applications, from humanoid warehouse simulators to autonomous-driving test environments. In the examples, developers direct AI agents through natural-language instructions and review results, while Omniverse provides GPU-accelerated physics, rendering and sensor simulation. One experiment reported a simulated Unitree G1 humanoid clearing a hurdle in 64 of 100 trials.

  18. Databricks BlogAI score29

    Biomedical Imaging's Real Bottleneck Is Data Access, Not AI Models

    AIHospitals, academic centers, medtech firms, and pharma companies all face the same obstacle: imaging data is locked in clinical systems and hard to share. The EXAM study across 20 institutions showed federated learning, which shares model weights rather than patient data, improved AUC by 16% on average. Collaboration remains difficult due to scanner and protocol heterogeneity, privacy governance, and the lack of a common data substrate.

  19. NVIDIA Technical BlogAI score26

    How to create SimReady robotics assets from CAD with frontier AI models

    AINVIDIA's Omniverse libraries, guided by SimReady Foundation specifications and agentic NVIDIA skills, provide a structured workflow for converting CAD assets to OpenUSD for robotics simulation. The workflow covers configuring and validating materials, collision geometry, joints, and other physics properties before testing robot behavior.