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Character.AI goes bankrupt amid lawsuits
A mother sued Character.AI after her 14-year-old son died by suicide following extensive chatbot conversations. The startup, which also named Google as a backer, has now gone bankrupt.
Full story at Futurism ↗ - Artificial intelligence · New AI models
Block unveils emotion-aware speech AI Dessa
Block introduced Dessa, an AI model that processes audio directly to detect emotions and sarcasm in real time. It runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max but is not yet publicly available.
Full story at The Decoder ↗ - Artificial intelligence · IT industry & companies · IT law & regulation
AI billionaires pour money into US politics
Tech billionaires including Elon Musk are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on political campaigns to back AI-friendly candidates. Despite the spending, the AI industry's public image reportedly isn't improving.
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Kimi K3.1 Pro closes gap on Claude Opus 5.5
Moonshot AI's new Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, an 11-point jump over its predecessor. If the weights are released as planned, the gap between open and proprietary models would shrink significantly.
Full story at The Decoder ↗ - Artificial intelligence · Software & updates
Gemini Notebooks now manageable within chats
Google has made Gemini Notebook available as a Connected App inside the Gemini chat, letting users manage and query notebooks without leaving the conversation. The feature is available to Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and personal Google account users.
Full story at Android Authority ↗ - Artificial intelligence · Programming & dev tools
Study: pricier coding-agent setups don't improve results
A controlled study finds that switching between coding-agent harnesses like Claude Code or OpenCode barely improves pass rates, while cost per task can triple. The extra cost mainly comes from the system prompt being resent with every step.
Full story at The Decoder ↗ - Artificial intelligence · IT law & regulation
OpenAI partners with Poland's NASK on AI safety
OpenAI and Poland's NASK are partnering on AI safety, security, and technical research. The collaboration aims to strengthen safeguards and support a more resilient digital ecosystem.
Full story at openai.com ↗ - Cloud & data centers · Artificial intelligence
AWS Bedrock web search gets domain filters
Web Search on AWS Bedrock now supports domain filtering and user location controls. This lets developers restrict results to trusted sites or exclude unwanted sources.
Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗ - DevOps & containers · Artificial intelligence
Vercel explains safe production access for its Agent
Vercel describes how its Agent accesses production environments safely. The provided text does not include further details on the mechanism.
Full story at Vercel ↗ - Cloud & data centers · Artificial intelligence · Data & databases
DigitalOcean makes prompt caching generally available
Prompt caching is now generally available on DigitalOcean Serverless Inference, cutting costs for repeated context by up to 90 percent. Time to first token also drops by up to 80 percent.
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