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Prime Video premieres Castle Walls, its first fully AI-generated series
Prime Video has released Castle Walls, a two-episode series produced by Ay Yapım using generative video tools, marking the first end-to-end AI-created show to premiere on a major streaming platform.theguardian.comIndustry
Concurrent Technologies Corporation wins $2 million DARPA contract for AI assurance
Concurrent Technologies Corporation and Enterprise Ventures Corporation have secured a $2 million DARPA contract to develop testing and validation methods for military autonomous systems.manilatimes.netIndustry
Hasbro launches AI studio to license character voices for customer service
Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks revealed the company is building a business to license AI-generated versions of its iconic characters, including a Mr. Potato Head voiced by Don Rickles, for use in customer service and entertainment contexts.semafor.comInnovation
Open-source HILIPS pipeline uses AI and human review to label industrial images
Researchers released HILIPS, an open-source tool that combines multimodal AI with human oversight to solve labeling challenges in industrial settings where objects look identical but function differently.bioengineer.orgIndustry
Upwind raises $400 million at $3.8 billion valuation for AI-focused cloud security
Cybersecurity firm Upwind has secured $400 million in new funding, more than doubling its valuation to $3.8 billion as it expands its platform to monitor AI applications and autonomous agents.qz.comIndustry
Physical Intelligence in talks for $1B round at $20B valuation
Bloomberg reports that robotics AI startup Physical Intelligence is negotiating a new funding round of at least $1 billion at a post-money valuation of nearly $20 billion, despite having zero revenue.finance.biggo.comProduct
Giotto AI launches free sovereign models Alto and Solo
Swiss lab Giotto AI released Alto and Solo, positioning them as European sovereign AI models with free web access and on-premise options, amid immediate controversy over potential Chinese model origins and restrictive licensing.pasqualepillitteri.itPolicy
Pennsylvania Senate bill seeks to keep teachers, not AI, central in classrooms
State Sen. Lindsey Williams introduced Senate Bill 793 to bar schools from replacing teachers with artificial‑intelligence tools, sparking debate over AI’s role in education.triblive.comInnovation
Taobao AI calling tool narrows pay gap for deaf couriers
Taobao Instant Commerce deployed an AI voice tool that allows deaf and hard-of-hearing couriers to call customers using preset or custom text, closing roughly one-third of the hourly wage gap identified in recent research.semafor.com
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