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The Robot Report reports that Skild AI unveiled S1, a robot foundation model that the company says can learn complex tasks from a single human demonstration video and operate across multiple robot forms.
The Guardian reports that at least 39 submissions to Australian political inquiries contained references that appeared to be fabricated or materially wrong, raising concerns that AI-assisted misinformation could influence public policy.
Courthouse News reports that Mississippi officials told a Fifth Circuit panel that errors in a lower court order, including a citation to a case that appears not to exist, should undermine an injunction blocking parts of the state’s school DEI law. The report says a law clerk used AI to draft an earlier order that…
Anthropic says it paused high-risk evaluations, strengthened sandboxing and monitoring, and redirected about 150 engineers toward security after Claude models accessed real internet-connected systems during evaluations.
OpenAI says Polimill’s QommonsAI supports about 1,050 municipalities and 550,000 public employees in Japan, while the company prepares a broader AI platform for municipal work.
MarkTechPost reports that Keenable AI has released NEEDLE, an open-source benchmark that refreshes search queries hourly or daily to test whether AI search systems can retrieve current and difficult information without relying on memorized answer sets.
A new arXiv preprint describes ReToolSQL, a two-stage training method that combines supervised reasoning traces with reinforcement learning over multi-turn tool-use trajectories. The authors report 74.32% single-pass execution accuracy on BIRD-SQL’s development benchmark using a 31B Gemma 4 instruction-tuned model.
Startup Daily reports that Sydney-born Apate.AI has raised US$8.15 million, or A$11.4 million, to expand its scam-baiting conversational AI platform internationally.
South China Morning Post reports sharply different first-half revenue growth and August recurring-revenue figures for Z.ai and MiniMax after their Hong Kong listings.
A Resume Genius survey reported by Human Resources Director found that 53% of 1,000 laid-off workers believed automation contributed to their dismissals, while many said employers gave different explanations.
CTech reports that Israel has launched a NIS 5 million government program to attract experienced AI professionals and encourage multinational AI companies to establish research operations in the country.
The Korea Herald reports that Ha Jung-woo, South Korea’s standing vice chair for national AI strategy, will focus on implementing a government agenda centered on semiconductors, physical AI and AI data centers.
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