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Google expands Gemini Enterprise with legal-sector tools, Reuters reports
Reuters reports that Google introduced Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a platform expansion that connects AI agents with legal software and data platforms for law firms. Four firms are collaborating with Google, but pricing, general availability and independent performance evidence remain unclear.cio.economictimes.indiatimes.comProduct
IT Brief Australia reports Olas launched Pearl Connect for Claude coding agents
IT Brief Australia reports that Olas launched a beta service giving Claude Code and Claude Desktop users a self-custodial wallet for user-directed blockchain actions.itbrief.com.auSecurity
Tech Xplore reports safety protections removed from 21 open-weight LLMs
Tech Xplore reports that researchers tested 21 widely used open-weight language models and found that fine-tuning or other tampering could remove their built-in safety protections. The study’s findings have not been independently confirmed here.techxplore.comInnovation
Apple researchers propose STARFlow2 for unified text-and-image generation
Apple researchers describe STARFlow2, an architecture that combines a pretrained vision-language model with autoregressive normalizing flows to generate interleaved text and images through one causal mechanism.machinelearning.apple.comProduct
The Logic reports Thomson Reuters launches custom Thomson AI model
The Logic reports that Thomson Reuters has launched Thomson, a domain-focused language model intended to reduce reliance on external AI providers and give the company more control over costs, data and product development.thelogic.coInnovation
Northeast Times reports wide performance gap in benchmark of 18 AI coding models
A Prime Intellect benchmark reported by Northeast Times tested 18 AI models on 153 autonomous coding tasks. Claude Opus 5 led with an 81.7% completion rate, while Kimi K3 scored 52.2% and GPT-5.6 Sol scored 35.9%. The report says the evaluation also exposed major differences in workflow efficiency, tool use and…northeasttimes.comProduct
SiliconANGLE reports Perplexity launches Portable Computer for on-device AI agent tasks
SiliconANGLE reports that Perplexity has launched Portable Computer, an on-device AI agent initially designed for Nvidia DGX Spark desktops. The tool reportedly uses Qwen 3.8 27B or Perplexity’s PPLX 27B model, supports multi-step work such as research, coding and data science, and includes context compaction…siliconangle.comProduct
OpenRouter launches image-generation benchmark for side-by-side model tests
BigGo Finance reports that OpenRouter launched a benchmark site comparing image-generation models with identical prompts, including tests for prompt fidelity, text rendering, editing accuracy, cost and speed.finance.biggo.comProduct
llama.cpp 0.3.0 adds multimodal dots3-note support and DeepSeek 4 tensor splitting
The llama.cpp project released version 0.3.0 with support for the dots3-note vision-and-audio model, new DeepSeek 4 tensor-split handling, GLM-4.5-Air multi-token prediction, and updates across its inference backends and web interface.github.com
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