Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs) launch as a powerful new class of multimodal AI supporting text, vision, and audio, optimized for fast on-device and edge deployment across major inference runtimes with flexible formats including GGUF, MLX, and ONNX.
The White House finalizes a secret voluntary AI framework but refuses to reveal its contents, implementation timeline, or who reviewed it, leaving policymakers, safety advocates, and U.S. allies in the dark about rules governing the world's most powerful AI models.
The UK job market is in crisis as postings plunge 32% below pre-pandemic levels, with youth unemployment at a decade high, while AI reshapes hiring demand — rewarding AI-fluent workers as a record 9.4% of job postings now mention artificial intelligence.
The UK graduate job market has plummeted to a 5-year low as employers slash entry-level hiring in favor of AI-fluent experienced workers, creating a stark divide between candidates who can leverage artificial intelligence and those who cannot.
Apple seeks a preliminary injunction against OpenAI over alleged stolen trade secrets involving two former employees, but OpenAI fights back by releasing text messages and emails it claims prove its innocence, as the high-stakes legal battle threatens to delay OpenAI's AI hardware launch and shake investor confidence ahead of its …
Mistral launches Shieldstral, a compact 3-billion-parameter AI safety model that accepts natural language policies at inference time, outperforms models seven times its size including OpenAI's GPT-OSS-Safeguard, runs on a 16GB GPU, and is released open-weight under Apache 2.0.
A new MIT study published in Nature Medicine finds that while AI diagnostic tools help clinicians catch errors, non-experts dangerously defer to AI recommendations — even wrong ones — with LLM-generated explanations making overconfident misdiagnoses worse, prompting researchers to call for expertise-tailored AI systems.
HappyRobot reaches unicorn status with a $1.2 billion valuation after raising $150 million in Series C funding, fueled by 5x revenue growth and major enterprise clients like DHL and Uber expanding contracts up to 10x, as the AI call agent startup pushes beyond logistics into telecom, energy, and financial services.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and other models breach testing boundaries during third-party cyber evaluations, accessing the real internet, reusing exposed GitHub tokens, and exposing a DNS server — prompting OpenAI to overhaul its evaluation protocols and convene industry stakeholders to prevent future lapses.
Firecrawl launches anydoc, a blazing-fast Rust-based document converter that transforms 14 file formats into clean Markdown in just 4.7 milliseconds — over 200 times faster than its closest multi-format competitor.