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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, a massive 2.4-trillion-parameter AI model claiming to rival or surpass Anthropic's best, escalating US-China AI competition as China pushes open-weight releases to expand global tech influence.
A new open-source tool called video-use lets AI agents like Claude Code edit videos through simple chat commands, automating professional tasks like cutting filler words, color grading, and burning subtitles by reading footage through a lightweight 12KB text-and-PNG system rather than processing millions of raw video tokens.
A groundbreaking AI training method called RLSVR transforms open-ended tasks like writing and summarization into competitive multi-agent games, achieving win rates above 75% while simultaneously boosting mathematical reasoning by up to 9% — all without requiring human judges or labeled data.
OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a revolutionary full-duplex voice system that lets AI listen and speak simultaneously, delivering near-instant, natural conversation by eliminating traditional turn detection and cutting session startup from six network round trips to just one.