ChatGPT Evolves From Chatbot to Personal Assistant OpenAI has rolled out a major upgrade to ChatGPT, turning the popular chatbot into a personal AI assistant capable of not just answering questions, but taking actions on a user’s behalf. Dubbed the ChatGPT “Agent”, the new feature launched on Thursday and allows ChatGPT to “think” and act…
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The First AI-Driven Diagnostic to Earn FDA ‘Breakthrough’ Status In a milestone for artificial intelligence in medicine, Roche’s VENTANA TROP2 (EPR20043) RxDx test has become the first AI-powered diagnostic to receive the FDA’s coveted Breakthrough Device Designation roche.com clpmag.com. This computational pathology companion diagnostic – essentially a software-driven analysis of cancer biopsy images – gained…
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Introduction The European Union is rolling out a groundbreaking AI Code of Practice for general-purpose AI models – essentially a voluntary code of conduct aimed at taming the likes of ChatGPT and other big AI systems ahead of sweeping new laws. The EU AI Act, the bloc’s landmark AI regulation, will fully apply in August…
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Introduction Google DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve is an experimental AI coding agent that can autonomously design and improve algorithms – a breakthrough that pushes the boundaries of what AI can create. Announced in mid-2025, AlphaEvolve uses Google’s cutting-edge Gemini large language models (LLMs) combined with an evolutionary search process and automated testing to iteratively refine computer code…
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A Globally Distributed AI Training Milestone In May 2025, the Prime Intellect research team unveiled INTELLECT‑2, a 32-billion-parameter large language model (LLM) that was trained not on a single data-center supercomputer, but on a globally distributed “swarm” of volunteer GPUs chakra.dev. This makes INTELLECT-2 the first LLM of its scale to be trained via fully asynchronous…
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A New Vision for a Conversational Web Imagine every website you visit could talk back – answering your questions in natural language, like a built-in ChatGPT trained on that site’s content. That’s the bold idea behind NLWeb, an open protocol unveiled by Microsoft at its Build 2025 conference. NLWeb (short for Natural Language Web) promises…
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Mixture-of-Memories (MoM) is a new sequence modeling architecture (released May 2025) that promises “linear attention” without the usual amnesia. In other words, MoM retains long-term information far better than previous efficient Transformer alternatives, yet keeps linear time complexity. Developed by researchers from Shanghai AI Lab and collaborators, MoM introduces multiple independent memory states guided by…
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Legal Framework and Regulatory Authorities Ireland’s drone regulations operate within a dual framework of national oversight and European Union (EU) rules. Since 31 December 2020, EU-wide drone regulations set by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) apply in Ireland (specifically EU Regulation 2019/947 on drone operations and 2019/945 on drone product standards) iaa.ie. The…
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Discovery of a Galactic Wanderer On July 1, 2025, a routine sky survey made a stunning find: an object glimmering near Jupiter’s orbit that didn’t behave like any ordinary comet or asteroid. Astronomers using the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile, noticed the object’s unusually steep trajectory and high speed, clues that it came…
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Internet Infrastructure: Undersea Cables, Mobile and Terrestrial Networks The Marshall Islands’ internet backbone rests on a single submarine fiber-optic cable. In 2010, the HANTRU-1 undersea cable was extended to Majuro and Kwajalein/Ebeye Atolls, linking the country to a hub in Pohnpei (FSM) and onward to Guam dig.watch itu.int. This 2,917 km cable (160 Gbps design capacity)…
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