Aravind Srinivas discusses his partnership with Motorola, fighting Google, and why AI assistants are coming for browsers. 
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| | In the News | | Aravind Srinivas discusses his partnership with Motorola, fighting Google, and why AI assistants are coming for browsers. theverge.com | |
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| In The News | | AI-powered scams are evolving rapidly as cybercriminals use new technologies to target victims, according to Microsoft’s latestCyber Signals report. artificialintelligence-news.com | |
| Chinese startup Manus AI, which works on building tools related to AI agents, has picked up $75 million in a funding round led by Benchmark at a roughly $500 million valuation, according to Bloomberg. techcrunch.com | |
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| | Applied use cases | | Lincoln Laboratory is transitioning tools to the 618th Air Operations Center to streamline global transport logistics. mit.edu | |
| Google started testing AI-summarized results in Google Search, AI Overviews, two years ago, and continues to expand the feature to new regions and languages. techcrunch.com | |
| Tech company predicts rise of ‘frontier firms’ – where a human worker directs AI agents to carry out tasks theguardian.com | |
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| | Ethics | | AI models like Anthropic Claude are increasingly asked not just for factual recall, but for guidance involving complex human values. artificialintelligence-news.com | |
| Israel developed new artificial intelligence tools to gain an advantage in the war. The technologies have sometimes led to fatal consequences. nytimes.com | |
| As part of a wider shift to digitise the Gulf country, it has announced federal and local laws will be written by computers, along with judicial rulings, executive procedures and public services. telegraph.co.uk | |
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| | Robotics | | I have been invited to see the G1, a humanoid robot built by Chinese firm, Unitree, at the Hannover Messe, one of the world's largest industrial trade shows. bbc.com | |
| If the idea of robots taking on humans in a road race conjures dystopian images of android athletic supremacy, then fear not, for now at least. cnn.com | |
| Swiss industrial group ABB (ABBN.S), opens new tab on Thursday announced plans to spin off its robotics division in the biggest shake up at the company since it sold its power grids business to Japan's Hitachi (6501.T), opens new tab in 2018. reuters.com | |
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| | Research | | This survey provides a thorough review of the security and privacy challenges of LLMs, along with the application-based risks in various domains, such as transportation, education, and healthcare. acm.org | |
| In essence, we face a dilemma: either to expand our current conception of intelligence to accommodate artificial kinds of it (the Artificial Realisability of Intelligence or ARI thesis), or to expand our current conception of agency to include forms of agency, such as artificial ones, that lack cognition, intelligence, intention, or mental states (the Multiple Realisability of Agency or MRA thesis). springer.com | |
| This paper sets out to examine the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol in both its theoretical design and practical deployment arxiv.org | |
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