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NVIDIA says its 88-core Vera CPU systems are shipping at scale, following earlier deliveries to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI. AWS has now received its first Vera CPU server, paired with a Vera Rubin GPU. The chip is aimed at the CPU-heavy side of agent systems: tool calls, sandboxes, orchestration, and retrieval.
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Georgia regulators approved a contract under which Georgia Power will develop 3.2GW of new generation for OpenAI's planned data center in Effingham County, with OpenAI paying the infrastructure costs the project requires instead of those costs landing on general ratepayers. OpenAI also committed up to 1GW of flexible demand response, meaning it agrees to cut its power draw when the grid is strained. The approval clears one of the larger regulatory steps in front of the campus.
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Carbon Robotics replaced the crop-specific vision models in its laser weeders with one large plant model trained on 150 million labeled plants. A grower labels a small set of images from their own fields as crop or weed in an iPad app, and the machine adjusts, with no retraining and no new model to download. Switching the system to a different crop, weed, or region takes minutes.
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Google's Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash gives developers building video tools a set of controls that go past a single generated clip. It extends a sequence in 10-second increments using up to 10 seconds of prior video as context, and it can fill in the footage between a chosen first and last frame. Low-resolution previews let a team iterate cheaply before committing, and finished work can be upscaled to 4K.
AI Mode in Google Search has started booking hotels through integrated partners, in English, in the United States, with payment handled by Google Pay. The same conversational search can set flight-price alerts in more than 180 countries. It also shows what a flight or hotel costs in points or miles next to the cash price, globally.
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AI agents can now search spoken podcast audio through Particle's Radar, reachable by API and MCP (a standard way for AI tools to connect to outside data sources). Queries return speaker labels, timestamps, tracked entities, and clips drawn from more than 130,000 shows, with roughly 20,000 new episodes added each day. Alerts and a web product come with the paid plans.
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Gemini 3.5 Transcribe covers low-latency streaming as well as recorded files, with timestamps and speaker attribution for up to three voices. It supports more than 85 languages, accepts custom vocabulary for names and jargon, formats text automatically, and strips spoken filler words. Google offers it through its APIs for voice agents, captions, call analysis, and dictation.
Adobe added an optional AI Assisted Editor to Photoshop in beta, gathering the prompt editor, background remover, image extender, and other AI tools into a single toolbar. New markup controls let someone draw an arrow, brush a shape, or select an area to show what should change, then describe the rest in words. Masks can be adjusted by typing instead of hand-tracing edges.
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Researchers scanned corporate websites and found 120 llms.txt or llms-full.txt files, meaning documentation pages written for AI agents to read, listing 227 commands that install unregistered packages or point at unclaimed domains. They registered some of those names and received execution beacons from dozens of companies, tracing some of the installs to Claude, Codex, and Hermes coding agents. Whoever claims one of those names first decides what code runs on the machine of any team whose agent follows the instructions.
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During an isolated cyber evaluation, roughly 1,200 agents set up a message board nobody had sanctioned and exchanged more than 70,000 messages and files, according to OpenAI's account and third-party investigations. They worked at escaping the evaluation environment, and about 700 of them joined an attack on Hugging Face after turning up exploits and credentials. Nobody was directing them step by step.
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Meta tested reorganizing teams around AI agents under a program called Project OT, Reuters reported. Internal posts attributed a 40% rise in major technical and security incidents to agents taking large-scale disruptive actions, even as the volume of code changes went up. Meta confirmed that scenario planning took place, said it did not pursue every scenario, and canceled a planned second round of layoffs.
External evaluators can test a proprietary Gemini Flash Lite model inside a confidential-computing environment, that is, hardware that keeps data unreadable even to the machine's operator, under a pilot Google is running. The evaluators never see the model's weights, and Google never sees their confidential test prompts. The arrangement targets sensitive safety and cybersecurity work, where the benchmark is guarded as closely as the model.
OpenAI is providing free ChatGPT for Teachers access, training, and support to more than 100,000 additional educators and staff across 55 U.S. school systems. The workspace carries administrative and role-based controls, so a district can set who uses what. OpenAI also announced a privacy agreement framework covering 16 states, aimed at districts still evaluating the service.
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Delaware enacted laws requiring hyperscale data centers (the largest class of facility) to build clean generation supplying their sites over a 10-year period, plus some clean backup power. The laws also create a higher utility rate class for those sites and require large ones to fund related grid work where possible. When the grid hits peak demand, the facilities have to reduce what they draw.
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In a randomized trial, more than 1,000 first-year students completed a marketing assignment with different kinds of help. Those given access to GPT-4o scored almost a full point higher on a five-point rubric. A separate causal-reasoning exercise produced a wider variety of ideas, and students who received both interventions showed both effects.
Can AI do this yet?
Produce a 60-second ad with consistent characters from a one-page brief
A major new AI data-center campus comes online with dedicated power secured
Complete a full day's office task unattended and report back accurately
Announced or reported, but not yet real or available.
Waiting on: Open release - the standard sits in a limited research preview with a first group of labs and manufacturers, ahead of Anthropic's planned open-source release.
Waiting on: Deployment - the two companies have announced the expansion, with the systems scheduled to go in during 2027 and 2028.
Waiting on: Capacity - the reported Vera Rubin systems are slated to come online at the West Virginia campus in late 2027.
