The latest news from the world of artificial intelligence, generative models, AI agents, robotics, chips, automation, and technology companies.
A coalition of 40 U.S. state attorneys general is asking that Character.AI’s bankruptcy proceedings address users’ access to and deletion of their data, as well as limits on using private conversations.
Anthropic is expanding its direct presence in the Asia-Pacific region. It opened an office in Singapore and signed a memorandum with the MDDI ministry on AI safety and evaluation.
Google DeepMind and Singapore’s GovTech introduced a Gemma-based model designed to detect scams directly on Android devices without sending conversation content to servers.
Google has made the Gemini 4 Argon model available through the paid Gemini API. The company presents it as a general-purpose model that may help with simulations, video processing and the development of robot control.
NVIDIA and Cisco presented plans for the USFP format for pluggable optical modules in Ethernet networks designed for AI infrastructure. The specification is not yet complete or commercially available.
At the OCP Global Summit, NVIDIA announced contributions of Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs through the MGX architecture. It is also releasing selected DSX OS tools as open source.
According to the Financial Times and Reuters, Nvidia and Reflection AI are holding preliminary talks about a possible acquisition or further investment. No deal has been confirmed.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella proposed that advanced AI systems should not be trusted on their own, but should be subject to external controls, audit logs and intervention by an authorized person.
The entire Deno team is joining Cloudflare. The Deno runtime will receive a year of maintenance updates, while Deno Deploy will be discontinued and paying customers are expected to receive help migrating to Cloudflare Workers.
In an internal study, Asana describes how cache and history changes, together with deploying GPT-6.1 Sol, reduced the cost of a browser agent test run to $0.47.