IBM Palette adapts a small model to a company’s presentation design language
IBM Research’s Palette work trains a 20B open-weight model to plan, code and automatically repair slide decks in a company’s own design language.
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OpenAI brings Astra and Codex into physical product engineering
OpenAI published new physical-engineering work showing how Astra and Codex can support mechanical design, electronics, CAD, simulation and manufacturing drawings.
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Google Antigravity adds Cheminformatics Skills for chemistry research
The new skills search and analyze thousands of compounds and prepare synthesis hypotheses; RDKit performs deterministic calculations, and every proposal still requires experimental validation.
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Ai2’s StateBench shows where long-context state tracking breaks down
StateBench evaluates evolving entity state across four difficulty levels; frontier models fall to 13% accuracy or lower on the longest, hardest cases.
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Hugging Face releases CWE-bench v2 across 91 vulnerability classes
CWE-bench v2 evaluates 100 security repairs in real open-source repositories with deterministic tests; leading systems still fail on roughly one-third of the tasks.
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LexisNexis launches Accurint One for law-enforcement investigations
Accurint One combines agency, partner and LexisNexis data with analytics, relationship mapping and governed AI in one investigative environment, while authorized users retain decision responsibility.
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Apple assigns a minimum 18+ rating to romantic AI companion apps
A new App Store Connect descriptor will classify virtual companion apps that engage users in sexual or romantic content under Dating and Relationships, with a minimum 18+ rating.
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Nordic nRF71 combines Wi‑Fi and edge AI in a low-power single chip
Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF7120 and nRF7120E combine Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth LE, Thread and application processing, while the nRF7120E adds an Axon NPU for on-device AI acceleration.
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Hugging Face releases MIC tests for Transformers regressions
Hugging Face has published Model Integration Contracts, an approach that shrinks large models into CPU-friendly fixtures and tests Transformers changes against real usage paths and human-reviewed outputs.
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Adobe gives eligible startups a free year of Firefly tools
Adobe for Startups gives eligible early-stage companies 12 months of free access to Firefly Pro Plus, Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express and Semrush tools.
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OpenAI expands its security sprint and bug bounty rewards
OpenAI says it is planning a new AI-assisted security sprint with Cathedral Systems and significantly increasing bug bounty rewards for critical security findings.
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Anthropic releases FlashProve prototype for verifiable AI inference
Anthropic has released FlashProve, an open-source research prototype designed to prove that a response came from a committed model without revealing its weights.
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