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MarkTechPost reports that Google’s Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash adds up to 10 seconds of scene context, cumulative 40-second extensions, first-and-last-frame control, cheaper 360p drafts, and 4K upscaling. The report says the model is available through Google’s Gemini API, AI Studio, and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
Databricks says distributed, asynchronous checkpointing and cached data loading can reduce recovery time and GPU idle time during large-scale PyTorch training, while warning that incomplete data-pipeline checkpoints can silently distort resumed jobs.
A Google Developers post describes a deep-learning network that uses detector waveforms, timing and geometry to reconstruct cosmic-ray properties. The post says the approach made roughly ten times more observation data usable and enabled earlier measurements of cosmic-ray composition, while noting that…
Google Research says its experimental Planetary Prediction Engine can autonomously select geospatial data, train models and produce predictions for public health, food security, environmental risk and socioeconomic analysis.
An open letter signed by a broad group of technology, cybersecurity, financial and infrastructure companies calls for more defensive AI, stronger basic security and coordinated support for critical services.
Amazon Bedrock now routes OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna requests between AWS Regions in Mumbai and Hyderabad, allowing customers to scale inference while keeping prompts and outputs within India, according to AWS.
Anthropic says scientists worldwide will receive free or discounted access to Claude for one year, alongside expanded research credits and continued limits on some life-sciences uses.
Google says Gemini Notebook can now answer questions about eligible ebooks purchased through Google Play Books, with citations, summaries, quizzes and other generated materials based on their contents.
Barret Zoph, a former Thinking Machines co-founder and OpenAI executive, has taken a vice president of research role at Google, TechCrunch reports. Google said he will bring reinforcement-learning and post-training expertise to its Gemini work, but the report does not establish his precise remit or start date.
WIRED reports that AI safety researchers in the United States and China are increasingly concerned about AI agents hacking systems, spreading across networks, and behaving unpredictably. The report describes tentative calls for technical cooperation, while noting major political, regulatory, and trust barriers.
Portal ERP reports that healthcare technology company Arintra raised a $25 million Series B led by Define Ventures to expand its AI-based medical coding and revenue-cycle platform.
Pulse 2.0 reports that publicly traded Volato has agreed to merge with Alignment Engine in a transaction valuing the AI infrastructure company at about $500 million, with 154 MW available now and a potential path to at least 480 MW.
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