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IDEA Prune integrates model enlargement and pruning for smaller language models
Apple Machine Learning Research describes an integrated pipeline that pretrains an enlarged language model before structurally pruning and recovering it, reporting stronger results when compressing 2.8B-parameter models to 1.3B parameters.machinelearning.apple.comProduct
Google expands Gemini Live with voice-controlled tasks across its apps
Google says Gemini Live can now handle multi-step tasks across Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Drive and other connected services through voice commands, with some features requiring paid Google AI subscriptions.
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Google brings Gemini Enterprise for Legal to law firms in preview
TechRepublic reports that Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a preview platform that uses AI agents for contract review, legal research, regulatory monitoring and related legal workflows.techrepublic.comInnovation
Google Research describes GlucoFM, a foundation model for continuous glucose data
Google Research says GlucoFM improved prediction across metabolic-health tasks and post-meal glucose responses, while acknowledging that its training population remains modest and its real-time performance is untested.research.googleInnovation
Researchers adapt Ai2’s Dolma toolkit to build a better Thai training corpus
A Thai research team adapted Ai2’s open data-curation toolkit to create Mangosteen, a 47-billion-token corpus that the team says improved Thai-language model performance while removing much of the underlying web data.allenai.orgProduct
MediaPost reports Google adds flexible billing options for AI developer platforms
Google is introducing spending caps, savings plans and a forthcoming usage-based option for some Gemini Enterprise customers as agentic workloads make AI costs harder to predict, MediaPost reports.mediapost.comProduct
FourWeekMBA reports Alibaba and Z.ai released open-weight AI models on Hugging Face on the same day
FourWeekMBA reports that Alibaba’s Qwen and Z.ai published new open-weight models on Hugging Face on August 26. The article says both use sparse mixture-of-experts designs, while performance and pricing comparisons remain vendor claims that have not been independently verified.fourweekmba.comProduct
Google’s Gemini 3.5 Transcribe docs spell out speech-to-text modes and limits
Google’s developer documentation details how Gemini 3.5 Transcribe handles audio files, including automatic language detection, speaker labeling, word timestamps and cleaned-up “smart” transcripts. The page also documents practical limits, including shorter maximum audio duration when diarization or timestamps are…ai.google.devInnovation
TechCrunch reports physical-AI builders are still in a “GPT-2 era”
TechCrunch reports that robotics companies are improving physical capabilities faster than they are developing reliable, commercially useful robot intelligence. Developers are focusing on better data, simulation, reinforcement learning and task-specific deployments while searching for a breakthrough comparable to…techcrunch.com
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