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Top 10 — News
- White House seeks critical minerals trade zone to curb China’s dominance Effort marks rare instance of Trump administration aiming to collaborate with global allies on trade
- Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce. The window to patch vulnerabilities is shrinking rapidly.
- Hackers publish personal information stolen during Harvard, UPenn data breaches The prolific cybercrime group ShinyHunters took responsibility for hacking Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, and published the st…
- From guardrails to governance: A CEO’s guide for securing agentic systems The previous article in this series, “Rules fail at the prompt, succeed at the boundary,” focused on the first AI-orchestrated espionage ca…
- Minister defends long delays to UK military spending plan Luke Pollard says blueprint expected last autumn is ‘a bigger task than many people outside defence realise’ A government minister has defe…
- Sam Altman responds to Anthropic’s ‘funny’ Super Bowl ads Sam Altman responded to Anthropic's new Super Bowl ad in an X post on Wednesday, saying the OpenAI competitor's campaign is "clearly dishon…
- Anthropic pledges to keep Claude ad-free while OpenAI moves forward with ChatGPT advertising Anthropic says Claude will stay ad-free, unlike OpenAI's ChatGPT, but the company is exploring other ways to monetize AI conversations.
- Navigating health questions with ChatGPT A family shares how ChatGPT helped them prepare for critical cancer treatment decisions for their son alongside expert guidance from his do…
- [AINews] Context Graphs and Agent Traces a quiet day lets us feature a bubbling topic.
- A labeled dataset of simulated phlebotomy procedures for medical AI: polygon annotations for object detection and human-object interaction
This data article presents a dataset of 11,884 labeled images documenting a simulated blood extraction (phlebotomy) procedure performed on…
AI tools & model updates
- modelcontextprotocol/servers: Release 2026.1.26 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Chinese AI video model Kling 3.0 takes another step toward usable creative assets Kling AI launches video model 3.0 with longer clips, improved character consistency, and 4K image generation.
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.77.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: sdk: v0.72.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Accelerating Long-Context Model Training in JAX and XLA Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly expanding their context windows, with recent models supporting sequences of 128K tokens, 256K toke…
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain==1.2.8 Release update (see link for changelog).
- microsoft/semantic-kernel: python-1.39.3 Release update (see link for changelog).
- ollama/ollama: v0.15.4 Release update (see link for changelog).
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.0-patch2 Release update (see link for changelog).
- huggingface/transformers: Transformers v5
Release update (see link for changelog).
Full list — News (10)
Effort marks rare instance of Trump administration aiming to collaborate with global allies on trade
The window to patch vulnerabilities is shrinking rapidly.
The prolific cybercrime group ShinyHunters took responsibility for hacking Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, and published the st…
The previous article in this series, “Rules fail at the prompt, succeed at the boundary,” focused on the first AI-orchestrated espionage ca…
Luke Pollard says blueprint expected last autumn is ‘a bigger task than many people outside defence realise’ A government minister has defe…
Sam Altman responded to Anthropic's new Super Bowl ad in an X post on Wednesday, saying the OpenAI competitor's campaign is "clearly dishon…
Anthropic says Claude will stay ad-free, unlike OpenAI's ChatGPT, but the company is exploring other ways to monetize AI conversations.
A family shares how ChatGPT helped them prepare for critical cancer treatment decisions for their son alongside expert guidance from his do…
a quiet day lets us feature a bubbling topic.
This data article presents a dataset of 11,884 labeled images documenting a simulated blood extraction (phlebotomy) procedure performed on…
Full list — AI tools & model updates (10)
Release update (see link for changelog).
Kling AI launches video model 3.0 with longer clips, improved character consistency, and 4K image generation.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly expanding their context windows, with recent models supporting sequences of 128K tokens, 256K toke…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).