Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the ways wars are planned and fought. Military experts say AI integration has the potential to revolutionize warfare, with applications ranging from decision-making support to autonomous weapons nato-pa.int. In fact, as far back as 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that “whoever becomes the leader in [AI] will…
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Big Tech Unleashes Autonomous AI Agents OpenAI and AWS Go All-In on “Agentic” AI: The past 48 hours saw major companies launching autonomous AI agents to perform multi-step tasks on command. OpenAI rolled out a new ChatGPT “Agent” mode, enabling its chatbot to take actions on a user’s behalf – from finding restaurant reservations to…
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Imagine a world where your doctor’s computer automatically writes your visit notes, or your car adjusts the music just by hearing you speak. This is the promise of ambient listening – technology that allows devices to continuously “hear” and respond to us. From hospital exam rooms to smart homes, ambient listening is quickly becoming part…
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Major Corporate AI Announcements and Product Releases AI Agents Go Mainstream: OpenAI and Amazon set the tone with new autonomous AI “agent” offerings. OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT “Agent”, a mode that lets its chatbot take actions on the user’s behalf – from finding restaurant reservations to compiling documents or shopping online ts2.tech. Unlike a passive…
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Major Corporate AI Announcements and Product Releases OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent was unveiled, introducing a personal AI assistant mode within ChatGPT. OpenAI launched ChatGPT “Agent” on July 17, adding powerful new “agentic” capabilities to its popular chatbot reuters.com inkl.com. Unlike a traditional chatbot that only generates text, the agent can take actions on behalf of users…
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Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2025 is no longer a futuristic concept – it’s a daily reality, powering everything from our smartphones to our hospitals and highways. AI systems today help doctors diagnose diseases, enable cars to drive themselves, and answer our questions via human-like chatbots. In fact, AI is now deeply integrated into nearly…
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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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