Google is developing a new AI agent for its Gemini platform that can perform tasks independently on behalf of users. Hilary Langley reports for Business Insider that the agent, internally named “Remy,” is currently being tested by Google employees. According to an internal document reviewed by Business Insider, Remy runs within a staff-only version of …
Google is updating its AI-powered search features to surface quotes and links from online forums, social media, and discussion boards directly inside AI responses. The company says the change reflects how users increasingly seek advice from other people rather than traditional websites. The most notable update pulls in what Google calls “a preview of perspectives” …
Anthropic has signed an agreement with SpaceX to use the full compute capacity of Colossus 1, a data center in the United States. The deal gives Anthropic access to more than 300 megawatts of capacity, backed by over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, within the month. Anthropic head of product Ami Vora announced the partnership at the …
Five major publishers and author Scott Turow have filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, accusing them of illegally copying millions of books and articles to train the company’s Llama AI system. Todd Spangler reports for Variety. The plaintiffs include Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage. The lawsuit, filed in the …
OpenAI has released GPT-5.5 Instant as the new default model for ChatGPT, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant for all users. The company says the update focuses on three areas: fewer factual errors, more concise responses, and better personalization. According to OpenAI, internal evaluations show that GPT-5.5 Instant produced 52.5% fewer hallucinated claims than GPT-5.3 Instant on sensitive …
Artificial intelligence is generating music at a scale that is reshaping the streaming industry. French streaming service Deezer reports that 75,000 AI-generated tracks are uploaded to its platform every day, accounting for around 44 percent of all daily uploads. Spotify removed more than 75 million spam tracks in a single year. The surge is driven …
The biggest legal battle shaping the future of creative work may not be the one making headlines. While more than 90 lawsuits have been filed against AI companies for using copyrighted material to train their models, Jacob Noti-Victor and Xiyin Tang report for The Atlantic that a different copyright question will prove far more consequential: …
OpenAI has identified the root cause of an unusual behavior in its latest AI models: a tendency to spontaneously mention goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, and pigeons in otherwise unrelated conversations. The company traced the problem to a flaw in how it trained models to adopt different personality styles. The issue first appeared after the …
Mistral has launched remote coding agents and a new AI model called Mistral Medium 3.5, marking a significant step toward autonomous software development. Mistral explains that the system allows coding tasks to run in the cloud without requiring a developer to stay at their computer. The new model is a dense 128-billion-parameter system with a …
Nvidia has launched Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open AI model that combines text, vision and audio processing in a single system. Most existing AI agent systems rely on separate models for each modality, which increases latency and cost. Nvidia says its new model eliminates that fragmentation. The model uses a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture with …