AI & Tech Newsletter

Google Search gets a major upgrade with Gemini 4 Hydrogen

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I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices

AI helped UK defy expectations – but will economy’s resilience fizzle out?

Despite John Healey’s defiance, the economy faces threats from a tech slowdown and energy bills this winter AI helps UK economy grow at fastest pace for more than two years The forecasters were clear when John Healey became chancellor in July: Britain’s resilience to the war in…

Gondola doubles revenue as its team builds more with Codex

Gondola helps creatives get credit and get hired, with Codex raising its lead engineer’s output by 50% and ChatGPT simplifying daily work.

Anthropic IPO

Holiday Extras is rethinking what it can build with Codex

With Codex, Holiday Extras is turning customer expertise into better apps, higher booking conversion and new possibilities for growth.

AI startup Trellis Data says new model is ‘near-frontier’

Just six months after launching its first fully sovereign large language model, Canberra startup Trellis Data has followed up with a successor it claims ranks among the world’s top 50 on global benchmarks. Launched on Thursday, Agentaus 1 is about 50 per cent bigger than its…

Supporting research on AI and children’s safety

OpenAI commits $2 million to research on AI and children’s safety. The work supports shared tools to measure risks and opportunities for young people.

Gilbert + Tobin rethinks the business of law with AI

A conversation with Sam Nickless, Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Gilbert + Tobin.

Gemini Decisions API

Gemini Decisions API Google join Jev and OpenAI in the decision model category with "Gemini Decision 1". This new model API is almost identical to Jev: it supports the same three types of questions (yes/no, choice, and rubric-scoring) and even reuses Jev's term "Noul" for a…

Gemini Decisions API: Fast, calibrated multimodal decisions

Meet the Gemini Decisions API, powered by our state-of-the-art model Gemini Decision for fast, calibrated multimodal decisions.

Big Walk used AI to fix a bug. Now the indie gaming world is having a reckoning.

The last few years have seen significant debate over the widespread use of AI-powered tools in game development and the responsible disclosure of that usage to players. That debate has exploded into a full-blown controversy in the indie game development space this week, as Big…

llm 0.37.2

Release: llm 0.37.2 Fixes a security issue reported by Daniel de Araujo in GHSA-v9h7-jj4g-f862 and GHSA-r639-rr7r-x72w. LLM has a mechanism called extra-openai-models.yaml - now managed by the new-in-0.37 llm openai endpoint add command - for using LLM with OpenAI-compatible API…

Anthropic's IPO roadshow video

Anthropic's IPO roadshow video Anthropic kicked off their IPO roadshow yesterday, and their roadshow video has some previously unreleased information about how their business works. The section on "Approach to compute" with co-founder Tom Brown is particularly interesting…

Google DeepMind just mathematically verified key parts of Signal

Google DeepMind researchers used agentic AI to mathematically prove, or “formally verify,” a number of the Signal protocol’s key cryptographic guarantees—a landmark development for the widely used cryptography and AI itself. Conducted as a sort of proof-of-concept project in…

ChatGPT Plus for veterans and servicemembers

More than 20,000 veterans and transitioning service members have claimed a free year of ChatGPT Plus. See how they use it to prepare for civilian careers.

BotPsy: On-Device Personal Assistant with a Sub-Billion-Parameter Agentic Language Model

How AI Helps Recyclers Turn Mixed Waste Into Reusable Material

Token Pooling-Aware Training for Multi-Vector Embedding Models

Grok Build coding agent leaks oodles of confidential info, some belonging to SpaceXSI

Grok Build, the vibe-coding agent from SpaceXSI, is leaking data—some of it proprietary business information and other sensitive secrets—from thousands of its users, including the very same Elon Musk-owned company that offers the platform, new research shows. The information is…

What happens to mathematics when AI becomes an oracle?

Our modern world runs on math, from social media algorithms, package delivery, and weather prediction to medical imaging and machine learning. The rise of computers helped fuel its dominance, enabling us to work with increasingly large numbers that would otherwise be beyond the…

llm-gemini 0.36

Release: llm-gemini 0.36 Gemini 4 Carbon was announced two weeks ago for "a subset of cyber defenders", but today it's available to everyone else. This is Google's best ever Gemini, priced at $2/million input and $10/million output at launch (that's GPT-6.1 Sol / Claude Sonnet…

Gemini Intelligence: New features, on more devices

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We’re bringing Adobe’s creative and productivity tools closer to your everyday Google apps.

Google and Adobe are integrating creative and productivity tools. Edit PDFs in Drive and use Adobe AI in Gemini. See what’s new in this partnership.