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There’s Something Very Dark About a Lot of Those Viral AI Fruit Videos

From female fruit being fart-shamed or even sexually assaulted, there’s a misogynistic undercurrent to the fruit slop microdramas, even as they appear to be cultivating genuine fans.

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WIRED AI

New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction

The US senator said on Tuesday that a moratorium would give lawmakers time to "ensure that AI is safe." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce a similar bill in the House in the weeks ahead.

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WIRED AI

Meta is laying off hundreds of employees as it pours money into AI

Meta is laying off hundreds of employees across its company, according to reports from The New York Times, NBC News, and The Information. The job cuts impact workers on Meta's recruiting, social media, and sales teams, along with Reality Labs, the division that develops the company's smart glasses and virtual reality headsets. "Teams across Meta regularly restructure or implement changes to ensure they're in the best position to achieve their goals," Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton says in an emailed statement to The Verge. "Where possible, we are finding other opportunities for employees whose positions may be impacted." Clayton declined … Read the full story at The Verge.

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The Verge AI

AI at the Edge is a different operating environment

What does “AI at the edge” really mean in 2026, and why does it matter now more than ever before? In this episode, we’re joined by Brandon Shibley, Edge AI Solutions Engineering Lead at Qualcomm’s Edge Impulse, to discuss the current state and future of Edge AI in 2026. We discuss Gen AI, Small Models, and Cascades of Models, along with real-world constraints like latency, power, and privacy. We also dive into the role of MLOps, evolving hardware, and how developers can start building practical edge AI systems today. Featuring: Brandon Shibley – LinkedIn Chris Benson – Website, LinkedIn, Bluesky, GitHub, X Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X Links: Read our Ultimate Guide to Edge AI Download your copy of O'Reilly's AI at the Edge  Check out the Edge Impulse blog Sign-up for an expert led trial of Edge Impulse Upcoming Events:  Register for upcoming webinars here!

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Practical AI

Unlocking video insights at scale with Amazon Bedrock multimodal models

In this post, we explore how the multimodal foundation models (FMs) of Amazon Bedrock enable scalable video understanding through three distinct architectural approaches. Each approach is designed for different use cases and cost-performance trade-offs.

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Amazon AI Blog

This startup wants to change how mathematicians do math

Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a free new AI tool for mathematicians, designed to discover mathematical patterns that could unlock solutions to long-standing problems. The tool, called Axplorer, is a redesign of an existing one called PatternBoost that François Charton, now a research scientist at Axiom, co-developed in 2024…

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MIT Technology Review AI

Inside our approach to the Model Spec

Learn how OpenAI’s Model Spec serves as a public framework for model behavior, balancing safety, user freedom, and accountability as AI systems advance.

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OpenAI Blog

Update on the OpenAI Foundation

The OpenAI Foundation announces plans to invest at least $1 billion in curing diseases, economic opportunity, AI resilience, and community programs.

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OpenAI Blog

Building AI-powered GitHub issue triage with the Copilot SDK

Learn how to integrate the Copilot SDK into a React Native app to generate AI-powered issue summaries, with production patterns for graceful degradation and caching. The post Building AI-powered GitHub issue triage with the Copilot SDK appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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GitHub Blog (AI)

Oracle converges the AI data stack to give enterprise agents a single version of truth

Enterprise data teams moving agentic AI into production are hitting a consistent failure point at the data tier. Agents built across a vector store, a relational database, a graph store and a lakehouse require sync pipelines to keep context current. Under production load, that context goes stale.  Oracle, whose database infrastructure runs the transaction systems of 97% of Fortune Global 100 companies by the company's own count, is now making a direct architectural argument that the database is the right place to fix that problem. Oracle this week announced a set of agentic AI capabilities for Oracle AI Database, built around a direct architectural counter-argument to that pattern. The core of the release is the Unified Memory Core, a single ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability)-transactional engine that processes vector, JSON, graph, relational, spatial and columnar data without a sync layer. Alongside that, Oracle announced Vectors on Ice for native vector indexin

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VentureBeat AI

Disney’s big bets on the metaverse and AI slop aren’t going so well

Less than a week into his tenure as Disney's newly-appointed CEO, Josh D'Amaro is already dealing with two separate crises that have cast a shadow over the company's future plans. OpenAI is shutting down its Sora image-generation program just months after Disney announced a $1 billion dollar collaboration to bake the tech into Disney Plus. And Fortnite maker Epic is laying off 1,000 employees at a time when we've heard basically nothing about the game studio's $1.5 billion investment deal with Disney to build a metaverse. Disney could still integrate generative AI into its streaming service, and we might end up seeing some version of the co … Read the full story at The Verge.

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The Verge AI

Build with Lyria 3, our newest music generation model

Lyria 3 is now available in paid preview through the Gemini API and for testing in Google AI Studio.

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Google AI Blog

Reinforcement fine-tuning on Amazon Bedrock with OpenAI-Compatible APIs: a technical walkthrough

In this post, we walk through the end-to-end workflow of using RFT on Amazon Bedrock with OpenAI-compatible APIs: from setting up authentication, to deploying a Lambda-based reward function, to kicking off a training job and running on-demand inference on your fine-tuned model.

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Amazon AI Blog

Agentic commerce runs on truth and context

Imagine telling a digital agent, “Use my points and book a family trip to Italy. Keep it within budget, pick hotels we’ve liked before, and handle the details.” Instead of returning a list of links, the agent assembles an itinerary and executes the purchase. That shift, from assistance to execution, is what makes agentic AI…

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MIT Technology Review AI

How Moda Builds Production-Grade AI Design Agents with Deep Agents

Moda uses a multi-agent system built on Deep Agents and traced through LangSmith to let non-designers create and iterate on professional-grade visuals.

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LangChain Blog

Agents should interview you

is claude trying to become openclaw?

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Ben's Bites

1 hour ago😸 Bernie Sanders Interviewed Claude on Camera: Here's What HappenedPLUS: Your AI adjusts answers based on who's asking. Wharton has proof

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The Neuron