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A Research Agent for All Biology: Biomni, an AI agent for multidisciplinary biology research
An agent designed for broad biological research could accelerate the work of scientists in specialties from anatomy to zoology.
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Meta Befriends Scale AI: Meta invests $14.3 billion in Scale AI, hires CEO Alexandr Wang
Meta hired the leadership of ScaleAI and put billions into the data-labeling startup to accelerate its AI efforts.
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Phishing for Agents: Columbia University researchers show how to trick trusting AI agents with poisoned links
Researchers identified a simple way to mislead autonomous agents based on large language models.
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Google I/O Overdrive: Google’s new AI offerings include Veo 3 video generator, lightweight Gemma 3n, updates to Gemini Pro and Ultra, and more
Google revamped its roster of models, closed and open, and added more AI-powered features to its existing products.
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Claude 4 Advances Code Generation: Anthropic debuts new Claude 4 Sonnet and Claude 4 Opus models, featuring top benchmarks in coding
Anthropic continued its tradition of building AI models that raise the bar in coding tasks.
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Your Robot Dev Team: OpenAI introduces Codex, a multi-agent cloud-based software engineering tool in ChatGPT
OpenAI launched an agentic software-development system.
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Up-and-Coming Startups: AI agents and infrastructure dominate CB Insights’ Top 100 AI Startups list
AI agents and infrastructure made a strong showing on CB Insights’s latest list of the top 100 AI startups.
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Open Standard for Tool Use and Data Access Gains Momentum: OpenAI adopts Model Context Protocol to boost LLM tool integration
OpenAI embraced Model Context Protocol, providing powerful support for an open standard that connects large language models to tools and data.
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Science Research Proposals Made to Order: AI Co-Scientist, an agent that generates research hypotheses, aiding drug discovery
An AI agent synthesizes novel scientific research hypotheses. It's already making an impact in biomedicine.
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Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode
Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet implements a hybrid reasoning approach that lets users decide how much thinking they want the model to do before it renders a response.
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Mobile Apps to Order: Replit’s agent-powered mobile app expands to full app development
Replit, an AI-driven integrated development environment, updated its mobile app to generate further mobile apps to order.
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Tree Search for Web Agents: How tree search improves AI agents’ ability to browse the web and complete tasks
Browsing the web to achieve a specific goal can be challenging for agents based on large language models and even for vision-language models that can process onscreen images of a browser.