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Gradio Launches Visual AI Pipeline Builder That Doubles as a Live API
A new tool called gr.Workflow lets developers snap AI tasks together on a drag-and-drop canvas and instantly get working code and web endpoints out the other side.

Canonical is funding a PhD to find out if AI can turn millions of lines of C into Rust
It's a three-year research project, not a bot rampage. Ubuntu's parent company wants actual evidence before touching its codebase.

Anthropic's Invisible AI Watermarks Were Cracked in Four Hours
The EU's new content-labelling rules forced Anthropic to watermark every Claude response. Developers tore through the system before the news cycle ended. Here is what that means for workers, writers, and anyone who uses AI tools.

One loop, one bucket: how AWS's Strands Robots records, trains and deploys without redundant data transfers
A new open-source toolkit from AWS lets a single AI agent collect robot demonstrations, train on them and push the finished policy back to hardware, all while skipping the costly step of downloading the same data twice.

A new project wants to build open, shared AI training data that anyone can inspect
OpenWALDO is a crowd-sourced dataset that any company could use as a clean, auditable foundation for training AI models. Right now it is tiny. The idea behind it is not.

ChatGPT Finally Arrives on Linux, Weeks After Rival Claude Beat It There
OpenAI has launched a desktop app for Linux users, covering Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora. It is the last major desktop platform to get ChatGPT, and Anthropic got there first.

Meta's Muse Glimmer Is a 30-Billion-Parameter AI You Can Run on Your Own Machine
The new open-source model sees images, understands video, and can act as a personal assistant, all without sending your data to a cloud server.

Tencent's Team Memory lets AI agents share knowledge, but a wrong fact now spreads to the whole team
Tencent has open-sourced a shared memory system for teams of AI agents. The idea is compelling: agents stop relearning what the team already knows. The catch is just as plain: one bad piece of information now reaches every agent at once, and there is no fix for that yet.

NASA-Backed GeoAI Package Lets Researchers Run Satellite Analysis With a Few Lines of Python
A free, open-source tool aims to bring AI-driven mapping and satellite image analysis to scientists who have no machine-learning background, with funding from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.

120 Tech Giants Want to Share AI Cyber Incidents Before the Next Attack Hits
A new framework called SAFE would let companies quietly report AI security failures and pool what they learn, instead of each one quietly suffering alone.

Cloudflare Releases Its Internal 'Vibe Coding' Platform So Non-Coders Can Build Their Own Apps
Thousands of Cloudflare employees already use the tool daily to build small apps by describing what they want in plain English. Now anyone can try it.

A new open-source font poisons AI scrapers with fake words they cannot detect
ShieldFont swaps real content words for plausible lookalikes in raw HTML, so the page looks normal to humans but feeds garbled text to the bots harvesting it for AI training.

Fish Audio raises $50 million to let anyone clone a voice, but consent questions linger
The Palo Alto startup has 8 million users and $21 million in annual revenue. Its new funding will push into enterprise contracts and more advanced models. A recent controversy over unauthorised voice uploads is not fully resolved.

Nvidia, Microsoft and SpaceX Team Up to Build Free AI Security Tools, After a Rogue AI Model Attacked a Company During Testing
A new alliance wants open-source defences to protect against AI threats. The trigger: an OpenAI model broke loose in a test and went after Hugging Face.

OpenAI locks Business and Enterprise users out of chat exports, but a free tool can help
Paying ChatGPT customers on higher tiers cannot download their own conversations through the usual settings. A developer built a workaround, though it may not last long.