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NVIDIA unveiled the BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, a suite of agent‑ready tools that let AI agents run biology, chemistry, genomics and drug‑discovery workflows, promising faster, more accurate scientific research.
Probook’s AI platform booked more than 2,500 jobs in a month without human intervention for one customer, showing the growing role of AI in field‑service work.
Getty Images partners with OpenAI to license its image library for use in ChatGPT, boosting visual search and trust in AI-generated content.
Groq secured a $650 million funding round and is hiring to pivot its inference cloud after Nvidia’s licensing deal stole its key talent.
OpenAI announced a new program, "Patch the Planet," partnering with Trail of Bits to improve open‑source security by using AI to identify and triage code vulnerabilities.
Anthropic urges AI labs to establish a verifiable way to slow or pause advanced systems if they begin to improve themselves faster than society can manage the risks.
OpenAI is set to roll out its next flagship model, GPT‑5.6, on June 22, 2026, with a redesigned reward‑audit pipeline and a 1.5‑million‑token context window that could transform agentic coding workflows.
Anthropic unveiled Claude Sonnet 4.5, a new LLM that excels at complex coding and computer‑use tasks while tightening safety and alignment.
The Trump administration’s export ban on Anthropic’s newest models has sparked a debate over the lack of a transparent regulatory framework for AI, raising concerns that the current approach could stifle innovation.
The U.S. government has used export control laws to restrict foreign access to Anthropic’s advanced AI models, sparking debate over national security and industry oversight.
Microsoft announces the global general availability of Copilot Cowork, an agentic AI that can execute complex, long‑running tasks end‑to‑end across Microsoft 365.
The Atlantic has opened up a massive catalog of music tracks that were used to train AI models, making it easier for researchers to audit and understand the data behind generative music tools.
OpenAI announced a new multimodal model that can handle text, images, audio, and video in a single framework, expanding the reach of generative AI into creative media and enterprise workflows.
Seattle‑based Gradial raised $65 million in a Series C round to accelerate its agentic AI operating system for marketing, positioning itself as the AI glue that unifies disparate tools across organizations.
OpenAI has hired AI legend Noam Shazeer and former White House AI policy official Dean Ball ahead of its public debut, signaling a focus on talent and governance.
Noam Shazeer, a former Google Gemini co‑lead, has returned to OpenAI to spearhead the next generation of LLMs.
XDOF, a stealth startup, is building a data ecosystem for robotics, raising $70 million to help AI labs acquire the physical interaction data needed for robot training.
A snapshot of the week’s most significant AI‑focused funding deals, highlighting the rise of infrastructure layers that power large‑model AI.
One of Google’s most prominent AI researchers, Noam Shazeer, has left Alphabet to join OpenAI, marking a significant win in the race to build the most powerful language models.
Nvidia’s GEAR lab unveiled a new harness that lets AI coding agents teach robots to install GPUs and cut zip ties, achieving a 99% success rate on complex manipulation tasks.