Build a Nanobot-Style AI Agent in Google Colab with Tool Calling, Session Memory, Skills, and MCP Servers
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Build a Nanobot-Style AI Agent in Google Colab with Tool Calling, Session Memory, Skills, and MCP Servers

This tutorial demonstrates how to build a lightweight AI agent in Google Colab inspired by nanobot architecture,...

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Anthropic Thinks Its Own Success Is Key to Making AI Safe
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Anthropic Thinks Its Own Success Is Key to Making AI Safe

Anthropic argues that its rapid growth and accumulation of power demonstrates responsible AI development practices. The...

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The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns
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The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns

The Trump administration has requested that OpenAI slow down the release of its new GPT 5.6 model due to safety...

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Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie, Data Center Workers Fight Back, and Meta Leaks Employee Data
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Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie, Data Center Workers Fight Back, and Meta Leaks Employee Data

Amazon's MGM Studios dropped a planned OpenAI movie as the AI and film industries become increasingly intertwined. The...

Wired AI
OpenAI will delay GPT-5.6 after Trump administration request
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OpenAI will delay GPT-5.6 after Trump administration request

The Trump administration has requested that OpenAI delay and limit the release of GPT-5.6, restricting initial access...

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Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents
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Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents

Patronus AI, an agent-testing startup founded by former Meta AI researchers, has raised $50M in funding to build...

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Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead
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Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead

Notion is discontinuing its Skiff-influenced email app and shifting focus to AI agents to manage user inboxes. The...

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Anthropic Alleges That Alibaba Pilfered Claude Capabilities
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Anthropic Alleges That Alibaba Pilfered Claude Capabilities

Anthropic has alleged that Alibaba improperly copied Claude's capabilities through model distillation. The incident...

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Anthropic’s Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT
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Anthropic’s Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT

Anthropic's Claude is gaining market share among paid AI consumers, challenging ChatGPT's dominance in the premium AI...

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How AI Could Help Address the Energy Challenge it is Creating
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How AI Could Help Address the Energy Challenge it is Creating

Data center executives argue that AI technology can help address the energy transition challenges while managing the...

AI Business
DeepReinforce Releases Ornith-1.0: An Open-Source Coding Model Family That Learns Its Own RL Scaffolds
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DeepReinforce Releases Ornith-1.0: An Open-Source Coding Model Family That Learns Its Own RL Scaffolds

DeepReinforce released Ornith-1.0, an open-source coding model family built on Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5 that learns its own...

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General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world
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General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world

General Intuition has raised $320 million to develop AI agents trained on millions of hours of video game footage,...

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Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000x
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Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000x

Databricks' former AI chief has launched Un-0, an image-generation system that demonstrates technology capable of...

TechCrunch AI
Most major AI chatbots still lean left on political questions, even "anti-woke" models are no exception
Ethics & Regulation

Most major AI chatbots still lean left on political questions, even "anti-woke" models are no exception

A Washington Post investigation reveals that most major AI chatbots demonstrate a leftward bias on political questions,...

The Decoder
Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster
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Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster

Netris raised $15M in Series A funding from a16z to accelerate its network software platform for neocloud operators....

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Insurers turn to generative AI for catastrophe modeling, but hallucinations and sales logic could get in the way
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Insurers turn to generative AI for catastrophe modeling, but hallucinations and sales logic could get in the way

Insurers are adopting generative AI and diffusion models for catastrophe modeling to generate synthetic weather events...

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Grok AI is reportedly a porn platform now, with over half its traffic tied to adult content
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Grok AI is reportedly a porn platform now, with over half its traffic tied to adult content

Grok AI reportedly generates over half its traffic from adult content, with xAI actively embracing this use case while...

The Decoder
Adobe acquires image and video enhancement tool maker Topaz Labs
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Adobe acquires image and video enhancement tool maker Topaz Labs

Adobe has acquired Topaz Labs, a maker of image and video enhancement tools, with plans to integrate the acquired...

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Salesforce launches Help Agent to simplify AI customer service deployment
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Salesforce launches Help Agent to simplify AI customer service deployment

Salesforce has launched Help Agent, a prebuilt AI service agent built on its Agentforce platform that enables...

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