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Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking for voice interactions involving real-time context and more complex reasoning.
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Fyxer is building an assistant for the routine communication that can quietly consume a working day: deciding which emails need attention, recalling the right context and drafting a reply that sounds like its user. The product draws on OpenAI models, a record of human executive assistant work and the corrections customers make to suggested drafts. OpenAI presents the company as an example of a more specialized approach to AI assistance. ## A series of decisions, not one prompt An incoming message first has to be classified. It may call for…
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Images for download on the MIT News office website are made available to non-commercial entities, press and the general public under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license. You may not alter the images provided, other than to crop them to size. A credit line must be used when reproducing images; if one is not provided below, credit the images to "MIT." The world needs more homes. The world also has too much plastic. Perhaps the only thing those two problems have in common is that they’re hard to…
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Images for download on the MIT News office website are made available to non-commercial entities, press and the general public under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license. You may not alter the images provided, other than to crop them to size. A credit line must be used when reproducing images; if one is not provided below, credit the images to "MIT." MIT researchers have developed a new technique that helps generative artificial intelligence models find solutions to high-stakes problems. In these settings, a plausible answer is not enough:…
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Perplexity uses Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, and checks in much less frequently than with earlier models. As an AI-powered answer engine, Perplexity is deeply focused on search and accuracy. Its ability to process large amounts of information is critically important. Johnny Ho, Cofounder and Chief Strategy Officer, observes that every time
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GPT‑6 Astra improves Devin’s ability to test software and show that it works, with the goal of helping engineers review less code and ship more. Cognition is the company behind Devin, an autonomous software engineer used by businesses around the world, from big banks to tech-native startups. As Cognition’s engineering teams write more code, reviewing that work has become a challenge. Cognition sees GPT‑6 Astra’s ability to test its work and show the results as a way to make code review more
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The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) selected AI-GUIDE, a medical device developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), for its 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award. This award recognizes federal laboratories and collaborators who have accomplished outstanding work in the process of transferring technology. With funding from the U.S. Army's Combat Casualty Care Research Program (CCC), Lincoln Laboratory and MGH developed AI-GUIDE and are in the process of transferring the prototype to the startup company AutonomUS Medical Technologies, Inc. "This recognition reflects what effective technology transfer looks like…
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How we adapted our application storage platform, Habitat, in Python to manage unprecedented growth.By Jon Lee, Chaomin Yu, and Ben Ries, Members of Technical Staff Every OpenAI product depends on fast, reliable access to data, whether someone is logging in, checking their Codex settings, or starting a new conversation in ChatGPT. Each of those actions may require many separate data lookups before the product can respond. If those requests are slow, the product feels slow. If those requests fail, the product stops working entirely. Habitat is the online storage platform…
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César de la Fuente and his lab probe the genomes of living and extinct organisms for molecules that could help fight drug-resistant infections. Drug-resistant microbes including bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses are a growing global threat. About five million deaths in 2021 were associated with bacterial antimicrobial resistance—an annual toll projected to roughly double by 2050. It can take years to find molecules with the potential to become antimicrobials. Researchers are using AI to accelerate this early stage of discovery. “Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest existential threats to…
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Meet the new Data agent in ChatGPT Work: turn your company’s data into answers, interactive dashboards, and action, just by asking. People across every business have questions that data can answer. Why did sales slow down? Where is spending rising? Which issues threaten renewals in our largest accounts, and what should we fix first? Getting those answers often means waiting for a report or asking someone else to run the analysis. We’re introducing a new Data agent in ChatGPT Work to help more people answer those questions themselves. It connects…
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OpenAI announced a managed API for long-running cloud agents, including orchestration, hosted sandboxes and tools for saving intermediate work.
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A first-of-its-kind agreement will provide free access and 50% off usage for federal, state, local, and tribal governments, alongside expanded support and access for public-sector cyber defenders. America’s public servants, including those on the front lines of cyber defense, should have access to the best AI tools available. Today, OpenAI for Government and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) are announcing a new multi-year agreement that builds on last year’s federal offer. This first-of-its-kind agreement will provide $0 access—normally $15 per user per month—for the license fee and 50% off…
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