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Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, its third coding model in three months. Rather than rely on raw scale, the company trained it to keep checking its work, revise failed approaches, and avoid giving up too soon during long agentic sessions. The compact model beats several much larger rivals in benchmarks. Poolside says it also solved a math problem that had been open since 1975 for under 10 cents. The article Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 is a small open-weight coding model that punches well above it

The humanoid revolution is coming—and the Chinese firm Unitree is leading the charge.

Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made from engineered proteins rather than synthetic chemistry (which are often used to…

Initial research projects advance national priorities across natural resources, manufacturing, nuclear physics, and more.

Turnstile today announced the next evolution of its Flexible Quote-to-Cash (QTC) platform with native support for Human and Agent teams through a read-and-write Model Context Protocol (MCP), one of the only Quote-to-Cash MCPs that allows AI agents to control the entire QTC process, rather than just access data.

Microsoft has also been accused of immediately cutting off access to group benefits health insurance by a group of Bethesda Montreal employees.

US scrutiny of Chinese technology has expanded to a new frontier, as lawmakers in Washington advance defence legislation prohibiting the military from deploying Chinese-made humanoid robots. The US House of Representatives has passed the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA), an annual military policy bill that incorporates provisions restricting the use of foreign autonomous systems over national security and data privacy concerns. Under Section 163 of the draft bill, the Pentagon would be.

Core issues that slowed down adoption of secure data vaults are being resolved by technology, but artificial intelligence poses new ones. Experts have some answers.

Joining the FinextraTV studio at Payments Unleashed in London, David Budzevski, Global Acceptance, Mastercard helped to discuss how payments is evolving and what it means for organisations operating in the industry. Budzevski outlined the changes in AI, and emphasised the issue of trust - something that he says will continue to define what makes a company competitive as AI scales. He explained how agentic commerce entirely changes the typical relationships that consumers and leaders alike have g

You probably know that it’s been a choppy semiquincentennial summer here in the District of Columbia. The National Mall’s murky, smelly reflecting pool and the sparsely attended American State Fair made national news. There’s been less coverage of the degree to which the capital’s bunkered down — fences and barriers have made walking the Mall […]

Black students have been excluded from high-quality mathematics for generations — with dire outcomes academically and professionally, a California-based math equity group found. Just Equation’s recent report, “Calculated Barriers,” notes that while these students make up 15% of the nation’s public school population, they accounted for only 6% of those enrolled in AP math classes […]

From Anthropic’s $40 million political push to Meta’s campaign against state laws, the major AI players are taking sharply different approaches.

A bill that seeks to mitigate data centers’ impacts on Americans’ electric bills is gaining steam in the House, as lawmakers face pressure to act in the face of sharp backlash to the sprawling AI infrastructure. The bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act would require states to “consider” standards that put the costs on tech companies, rather...

Anthropic has doubled down on its position as the AI company pushing hardest for industry regulation , announcing on July 21 that it plans to donate another $20 million to Public First Action, a political group that advocates for government-imposed safeguards on AI. The contribution brings Anthropic’s total donations to the group to $40 million. It comes as the midterm elections in the U.S. draw closer and AI legislation remains a political hot button. “We’ve long argued that frontier AI compani

The government spent the past two decades learning what private sector partners have always known: cyber resilience requires everyone in the room. ANCHOR-CI is proof that the lessons may finally stick. The post ANCHOR-CI could fix 20 years of broken government-industry collaboration appeared first on CyberScoop .

From Anthropic’s $40 million political push to Meta’s campaign against state laws, the major AI players are taking sharply different approaches.

From Anthropic’s $40 million political push to Meta’s campaign against state laws, the major AI players are taking sharply different approaches.

FinregE, the End-to-End Regulatory Operating System (FinregE ROS), has published a strategic analysis of the UK’s AI Adoption Plan 2026, providing a roadmap for financial institutions to navigate the regulator's requirements.

A recent investigation found that a small foreign group used the websites of 16 governments to promote illegal betting. Meaning other cynical actors could also gain access and steal citizens’ data or plant something far worse.

The bottleneck in a mature SOC is rarely analyst triage; rather, it is the detection-engineering team's ability to keep the rule base aligned with a threat landscape that evolves faster than rules can be written. Learn how multi-agent system for production security operations has reduced mean times to detect and to respond by 40% and compressed the human work required by 12x. By Willem Berroubache

The co-chair of a key Democratic House panel on AI is joined by a Republican on legislation that would authorize the government to shut down or throttle risky AI models.

Das Agent Framework bringt nun ein vorgefertigtes Harness mit, um aus großen Sprachmodellen Agenten zu machen.

Flank, the agentic legal tech company focused on inhouse teams, has launched Flank Record, an autonomous agentic contract system of record, which greatly reduces the ...

For 18 days in June, two of America’s most capable AI models went dark worldwide, not for technical or business reasons, but because the U.S. government ordered it. On June 12, 2026, the Commerce Department informed Anthropic that its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models could no longer be provided to any foreign person without a license, and the company concluded that compliance meant shutting the models down for everyone. Public access to Fable 5 was restored on June 30.The United States doesn’t have a

Alibaba Group Holding’s mapping unit has unveiled an upgrade to what it calls the world’s first technology framework that unites a robot’s “feet, hands, brains, central nerves and motor nerves” into a single system. Amap’s ABot system marks the latest move in Chinese tech players’ race to harness artificial intelligence models to make robots more capable. Referred to as embodied intelligence, the effort aims to equip machines with the “brains” and other elements required to navigate and complete

The most obvious use of generative AI is writing. It’s right there in the name—large language models (LLMs) are all about reading, organizing, analyzing, and conjuring words—which is exactly why many in the journalism profession have been going through a kind of existential crisis these past few years. And the crisis isn’t just theoretical. As artificial intelligence systems get better at writing, a growing number of newsrooms are using AI to help not just with analysis, process, and ideas, but

This article is republished with permission from  Laser Wars , a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. The threat of low-cost weaponized drones may grow more urgent by the day, but the United States’  nascent laser dome  is slowly but surely expanding to meet it. In a new request for information (RFI)  published  on July 20, the U.S. Coast Guard’s Research and Development Center stated that it is “interested” in high-energy lase

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Editor’s note: This is the fifth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, and winners will be selected by a reader vote undertaken through our newsletter later this summer. Prior installments can be found at the Arsenal of Innovation page.Have you ever wondered how the United States transitioned fr

According to a report by IT Home, DeepSeek, the Chinese AI developer behind the open-source R1 reasoning model, is prioritizing artificial general intelligence (AGI) research over building a consumer platform or maximizing near-term revenue. The report is based on a circulated transcript of a four-hour investor meeting involving founder Liang Wenfeng. Why it matters: The […]

Portuguese businesses operate in the same native language as Brazilian hackers, making those businesses easy targets.

Katie stood outside the managing partner’s door like a naughty student. Tim had sent everyone else away so he could have a solitary, emergency brainstorm. ...

A recent AI cyberattack that stunned the industry has unexpectedly put Chinese AI company Zhipu AI and its open-source model GLM 5.2 in the spotlight. OpenAI has acknowledged for the first time that one of its AI models escaped a sandboxed testing environment during an internal cybersecurity evaluation and compromised the production infrastructure of Hugging […]

July 23 (Reuters) - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) first cash burn on record has jolted investors awaiting more Big Tech results next week as soaring AI spending ​strains one of the world's most profitable ...

Assured Health raised $19 million for its AI agents that verify provider credentials and manage insurance enrollment for health systems and group practices. The startup said it can cut a process that usually takes months down to days. The post Assured Health Secures $19M to Get Providers In-Network Faster with Agentic AI appeared first on MedCity News .

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