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• Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration
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• Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
• Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission
• Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

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• Pope Leo XIV Declares AI a Threat to Human Dignity and Workers’ Rights
• ChatGPT Is Making People Think They’re Gods and Their Families Are Terrified
• AI May Soon Help You Understand What Your Pet Is Trying to Say

• ‘Every role teaches something valuable’, finds senior automation engineer
• Ireland set to see major solar eclipse covering 96pc of sun
• 8 companies adding to their Irish research and development teams
• Thinking Machines Lab unveils new Inkling version at 25pc size
• Apple warns of supply issues despite ‘strongest June quarter’

• How to Secure AI Agents, MCP Servers, and LLM Apps in Production
• Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Max: A 2.4 Trillion Parameter MoE Model and the Most Capable One in the Qwen Family to Date
• Cogent AI Team Releases VR-1: A Frontier Cyber Reasoning Model That Composes and Verifies Enterprise Attack Paths
• Onton Releases Ontology 1: A Neurosymbolic Search Model That is 2.7x More Accurate than the World’s Best E-commerce Search Engines
• A Tutorial on GeoAI: Designing Footprint Extraction from NAIP Imagery Using U-Net, Grounding DINO, SAM, and Mask R-CNN

• Prompt, Context, Loop: The Three Engineering Layers Every RAG System Is Built On
• How to Build CLI Agents with Python & Ollama
• The AI Was the Easy Part: What Is a Forward-Deployed Engineer in a Supply Chain?
• How Claude Help Me Build My $200k+ ML Resume
• How to Apply Coding Agents to Non-Programming Tasks

• Best in Class: Stream PC Games and Study on the Same Laptop With GeForce NOW
• Powerful Compute So Compact, It’s Clutch — Build AI Anywhere With NVIDIA Jetson
• Industry Leaders Unite in Open Secure AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security
• NVIDIA Harnesses Vera CPU to Speed Up Design of Next-Generation CPUs and GPUs
• At AI Summit, South Korea Outlines Its AI Future With NVIDIA and Partners

• Generative AI to quantify uncertainty in weather forecasting
• AutoBNN: Probabilistic time series forecasting with compositional bayesian neural networks
• Computer-aided diagnosis for lung cancer screening
• Using AI to expand global access to reliable flood forecasts
• ScreenAI: A visual language model for UI and visually-situated language understanding

• EU AI Act Article 50 transparency rules enter force
• Why biological data matters more in AI drug discovery
• OpenAI aligns safety practices with EU AI Act’s GPAI Code
• Zuckerberg details Meta’s personal AI superintelligence strategy
• How AI is Changing Linux VPS Security for Businesses

• Data Center Project No Longer Moving Forward in Henderson, Nev.
• Perception vs. Reality: Leading in the Age of AI
• IT Teams Always Need to Modernize. AI Is Changing the Game.
• How AI Can Unlock the 5 Dimensions of Permitting
• Best Practices for Defending Against — and Using — Frontier AI

• Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center
• Daniela Rus receives Bavarian Minister-President's High-Tech Prize
• Connecting research to policy on Capitol Hill
• How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing
• Working to automate nuclear plant operations

• Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI
• Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents
• EvoLib: Turning experience into evolving knowledge
• Verifying Rust cryptography in SymCrypt, from standards to code
• Aurora 1.5: Extending open foundation models for weather and Earth-system applications

• From weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations
• Automated Reasoning policy refinement in Amazon Bedrock
• Announcing the Agentic Catalog Experience in Amazon Quick
• Optimizing production agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability
• Deploying Kimi K3 on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Amazon EKS

• AI Conquered Coding. Fast Food Is Next
• The ‘Guardrail Guy’ Went Viral for Posting About Flock Cameras. Then Someone Destroyed Them
• Europeans Are About to Find Out How Entrenched AI Is in Their Daily Lives
• 7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iran
• The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier

• From CUDA to MLX: How K-Search Brings Decades of Kernel Expertise to Apple Silicon
• Teaching LLMs to Update Beliefs for Efficient Long-Horizon Interaction
• Intelligence is Free, Now What? Data Systems for, of, and by Agents
• 2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase
• Adaptive Parallel Reasoning: The Next Paradigm in Efficient Inference Scaling

• Ring Cycle review – AI staging dispenses with drama to create banal bric-a-brac
• Greens senator brands Pauline Hanson a ‘political coward’ over press conference bans – as it happened
• Disruption review – anti-AI thriller boasts knockout cast but tech commentary needs an update
• Stock market turmoil sheds stark light on the opaque AI economy
• ‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI

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