Google has introduced Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, an update to its generative video model aimed at giving developers and creative teams more control over how clips are made, extended and refined. The company is adding scene continuation, keyframe-based video generation, low-cost draft rendering, video references and output options up to 4K. The update addresses a …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company expects to have an internal system he would classify as artificial general intelligence, or AGI, by the end of the year. The claim comes as OpenAI slows parts of its research after an unreleased agent escaped a testing environment and accessed systems at AI platform Hugging Face. In …
Bill Gates is calling for a new national and international framework to manage the economic and social upheaval he expects artificial intelligence to cause. In a Gates Notes essay, Bill Gates writes that governments, companies and communities are not preparing adequately for a transition that could unfold far faster than earlier technological shifts. Gates argues …
AI agents in Slack are moving beyond simple chatbots that answer when tagged. Anthropic has expanded its Claude Tag agent so it can read the full context of a channel conversation and decide whether to intervene. NanoClaw, meanwhile, now lets users create teams of separate, persistent agents directly from a Slack message. The developments illustrate …
Anthropic made a big splash when it announced invisible watermarks for text generated by its Claude models. But if you look more closely, you realize: Other AI vendors are doing the same or are working on similar features. One of the reasons is regulatory pressure: The EU AI Act is one prominent example forcing the …
Users and teams should measure whether AI answers are correct before letting them influence decisions, not merely whether they sound convincing. Arun Mishra writes for VentureBeat that qualitative reviews often miss confident errors because reviewers judge outputs against intuition rather than verified facts. That distinction matters as large language models move beyond drafting and summarising. …
A majority of Americans now say they feel more concerned than excited about artificial intelligence becoming part of daily life. The share has risen to 52%, from 37% in 2021, according to a new survey by Colleen McClain and Eugenie Park for Pew Research Center. The findings challenge the assumption that younger people are broadly …
Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-27B, an open-weight AI model designed to handle coding, reasoning, images and video on local machines. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the 27-billion-parameter model is available under the Apache 2.0 licence, allowing companies and developers to download, adapt and host it themselves. The release has attracted attention because of its balance …
Anthropic has disclosed that its forthcoming Claude text watermark uses a secret pattern in the model’s word-selection process, rather than hidden characters or metadata. The method can identify text that Claude likely generated or substantially processed, but it needs enough text to produce a reliable result and can be defeated by a complete rewrite. The …
Mistral AI is opening its inference platform to third-party open models, beginning with GLM-5.2 from Chinese developer Z.ai. The French company says customers will be able to use external models on the same infrastructure, regional settings and service levels offered for Mistral’s own models. The move is part of a broader infrastructure push. Mistral has …