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All newsGenie 4: DeepMind's Interactive World Model Now Makes Sound Too
Google DeepMind's Genie 4, announced last week, generates playable worlds with audio and dialogue in real time. It is a research preview with a waitlist.
NewsGemini 4 Carbon: Google's Strongest Model Goes to Cyber Defenders First
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon last week with top scores in security tasks, limited access and mixed independent results on accuracy.
News"Egoless Mathematics": A Guest Post on Terence Tao's Blog Asks What Maths Is For in the AI Era
Three authors argue on Terence Tao's blog that AI should push mathematicians to value understanding over output, rank or credit.
NewsAdobe Tests an AI Agent That Edits Images Step by Step, and Checks Its Own Work
Adobe Research and UC San Diego present EditAgent, which splits edits into steps, tries several versions and picks the best one using measurements.
NewsGoogle, OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft Back One Switch to Keep Your Site Out of AI Training
A proposed robots.txt directive would let publishers block AI-training crawlers with one rule instead of one rule per company.
BlogTwo AI Rulebooks Arrived in August. Only One of Them Is Readable.
On 2 August the EU switched on enforcement of its AI rules, with numbered articles, named duties and a public complaints form. In the same week the US finished its own frontier model framework and decided not to publish it. The gap that matters is not strictness, it is whether you can read what applies to you.
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