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Measuring how AI agents handle everyday wet-lab science

OpenAI introduces BioBasicsBench, a 100-task benchmark measuring how well AI agents interpret raw experimental data and handle everyday wet-lab science.

Egyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR Leaderboard

Google: Schools can keep search while skipping Gemini, but AI search is non-negotiable

Google faced the ire of educators and parents earlier this week when it announced a new AI policy for K–12 schools. Google said that it developed its new approach to give schools more control, but early reporting also suggested Google would block search access for schools that…

Lawsuit: Man introduced his wife to ChatGPT. She used it to plan his murder.

ChatGPT allegedly helped a North Carolina woman, Cheryl Gates, craft a “personalized plan” to poison her husband, James, after fueling her delusions that he planned to divorce her and leave her with nothing. A grand jury indicted Cheryl Gates on charges of attempted first-degree…

Vera Delivers the Best of Both Worlds: Highest Throughput and Fastest Agents

AI agents do more than generate answers. They search for information, query databases, write and test code and take action. Each of those steps relies on a CPU, with agents moving between GPU reasoning and CPU execution throughout a task. As businesses put more agents to work…

Cult.fit builds operational muscle with Codex

Cult.fit is using Codex to help teams across functions build tools, move faster, and change how work gets done.

Australian universities are creating AI-native graduates

Australian universities are expanding access to ChatGPT and bringing AI into teaching and learning to prepare students for an AI-enabled workforce.

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips

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Detecting signs of hypertension using wearable sensors

Health & Bioscience

Formally verifying agent-written full-stack web apps with PDD Kit

At a glance Formal methods for everyday software. PDD Kit helps you turn your intent into a formal spec, then proves the code your agent writes for every input and uses tests where a proof can’t reach. It takes formal methods beyond niche, specialist work to engineers without a…

AI Text Watermarking May Not Be Able to Meet the E.U.’s New Rules

The European Union now requires AI-generated text to be watermarked so that it can be identified as such. But tests on OpenAI’s new textGrain watermark, released in October and developed to comply with the new E.U. law, show that these watermarks often do not survive additional…

STAT+: Medicare delays controversial remote patient monitoring rule to 2029

Y ou’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. Good morning health tech readers! Below, what the shifting political winds mean…

STAT+: What the midterms could mean for the future of health AI

Tuesday’s midterm elections highlighted the negative sentiment around artificial intelligence, with voters roundly rejecting the data centers required to power the technology on dozens of ballot measures across several states. The results echo polling that shows many Americans…

GPT‑6 Cyber: Advancing the frontier of aligned cybersecurity agents

Introducing GPT‑6 Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity model for finding exploitable vulnerabilities and developing fixes, trained to stay within authorized scope.

STAT+: As more doctors consult chatbots, health systems can block them — or buy in

Earlier this year, Patrick Woodard had to have a talk with one of the hundreds of clinicians that work at Monument Health, where he is chief information officer. The South Dakota and Wyoming-based health system had decided to block access to OpenEvidence, the popular free…

Merge builds product and business tools with OpenAI technology

Merge uses GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, and Codex to review product code and support marketing. Its teams also use AI to plan executive dinners and prepare sales updates.

Clearing up a robot’s fuzzy memory

In an emergency, a human might someday ask a robotic assistant to fetch a wall-mounted defibrillator located down the hall. But if the robot has incorrectly labeled the defibrillator as a fire extinguisher in its stored memory, it may not know where to find the life-saving…

Setting a new standard for responsible AI infrastructure

OpenAI introduces its National Community Compact and Compute Campus Policy Blueprint to protect local resources, create jobs, and guide responsible AI infrastructure development.

Flipsnack grows product signups with conversion optimization

Flipsnack focused its ChatGPT Ads campaigns on getting people to try its product, growing registrations while lowering the cost per signup.

Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG

Maximum inner product search (MIPS) sits at the core of recommendation systems, search, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Given a query vector, MIPS systems search within a database of millions of candidate key vectors for the one that best matches the query. The…

Franklin Templeton uses OpenAI to support investment research

Starting with equity research, Franklin Templeton is developing AI workflows to help portfolio managers compare research views and examine investment risks.

A Closer Look at Phonon TTS. Launching High-Quality On-Device Speech That Tops the Benchmarks.

Texas was the new epicenter of the AI data center buildout. That might be kaput.

Texas is the fastest-growing data center market in the US and ground zero for Big Tech’s largest AI buildouts. But the blue wave that swept the Lone Star State may jeopardize that position. Democrat James Talarico won the US Senate seat against Ken Paxton. Gina Hinojosa won the…