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At UBS, AI skills are now a condition for landing a job
Swiss banking giant UBS is making AI skills a required qualification from 2027 for graduates and interns in Global Banking and Markets, with applicants…
OpenAI reports AI “research interns” and warns about its own pace at the same time
OpenAI reports that AI agents in its own research already handle 3.1 workdays for every human workday, and it says it has reached its goal of an…
How AI wiped out an entire industry in Nairobi
In Kenya, ChatGPT wiped out an entire business model: writing academic papers for foreign students. The article How AI wiped out an entire industry in…
Qwen-Drive 1.0 tells you why it brakes, just don’t expect the explanation to match the maneuver
Alibaba’s research arm has released Qwen-Drive 1.0, an AI model that handles environmental perception, traffic Q&A, and route planning in one system. The…
Chatbots built an “echo chamber of one” and now psychiatry has to decide if “AI psychosis” exists
Researchers at King’s College London and other institutions are examining whether “AI-associated psychosis” should become a clinical diagnosis. By…
Google’s WeatherNext 3 ditches physics simulations and learns weather directly from live satellite data
Google Research and DeepMind are releasing WeatherNext 3, a weather model that skips traditional physics simulations and learns directly from real-time…
OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months
OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux calls Astra the company’s “biggest competitive advantage” while it wasn’t publicly available. Internal use boosted…
Google brings AI music generation directly into the Gemini app with its new Lyria 3.5 model
Google has released its Lyria 3.5 music model in the Gemini app and via API. The model promises more expressive vocals and richer arrangements and is also…
Meta’s new real-time audio model is the foundation for AI assistants that never stop listening
Meta’s Superintelligence Labs have released Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time transcription model that processes speech in 80-millisecond chunks, tells…