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OpenAI starts offering a biology-tuned LLM
On Thursday, OpenAI announced it had developed a large language model specifically trained on common biology workflows. Called GPT-Rosalind after Rosalind...
Friday, 17 April 2026
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Executive summary of events for the last 24 hours
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, reclaiming the top spot among publicly available LLMs, while OpenAI countered with GPT-Rosalind, a biology-specialized model built from the ground up for life sciences research. A notable security concern also emerged as a new study found that large language models can re-identify anonymous users at scale, raising significant privacy implications.
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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, narrowly retaking lead for most powerful generally available LLM
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GPT-Rosalind launches as the first large language model built from the ground up for life sciences research
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Pre-training Space RL for Enhanced LLM Reasoning
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Study Finds Large Language Models Can Re-Identify Anonymous Users at Scale
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OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, a biology-tuned LLM
OpenAI has launched **GPT-Rosalind**, a closed-access large language model tuned specifically for life-sciences workflows. The model was trained on **50**...
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MCP Connectors: Mitigating the Risks of AI Agents in a Connected Architecture | Pillsbury - Global Sourcing Practice
In the most recent installment of our series on Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors, we closed with this observation: Organizations that will...
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AI Gateway: A Governance Layer for Agentic AI
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OpenAI Codex Gets Desktop Control and AI Agent Features
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How agentic AI raises fresh underwriting challenges in cyber insurance
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Capacity Efficiency at Meta: How Unified AI Agents Optimize Performance at Hyperscale
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LinkedIn’s AI Agent Product Becomes a Surprise Bright Spot for Microsoft
Microsoft has so far seen mixed results in its efforts to sell AI-powered products to businesses, with only around 3% of its Office 365 users paying to use...
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Palantir exec: the biggest mistake retailers are making with AI? Trying to do it all with one agent
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Microsoft CISO advice: How to build Trustworthy Agentic AI
Corporate Vice President and Deputy Chief Information Security Officer Yonatan Zunger explains the importance of rigorous testing when building trustworthy...
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[un]prompted 2026 – Glass-Box Security: Operationalizing Mechanistic Interpretability
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Saving Everyone, Everywhere, Across Space and Time
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AI Safety Expert Warns of Existential Risk
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AI Alignment Is Impossible - by Matt Lutz - Persuasion
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OpenAI Launches Safety Fellowship to Fund External AI Research
OpenAI is expanding safety efforts beyond its walls with a new Safety Fellowship that will fund external researchers to study AI risks.
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The ‘Techlash’ Against AI Is Here. Have We Hit a Tipping Point?
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Student Attempts to Murder Sam Altman, Raises AI Threats
A **20-year-old** college student, **Daniel Moreno-Gama**, is accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO **Sam Altman**'s San Francisco home and...
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Quote of the day by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: “No action is too extreme when the fate of humanity is at
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Trump urges AI 'kill switch' after Mythos security warnings
US President Donald Trump has called for a government-controlled 'kill switch' for advanced AI systems, citing existential risks and recent warnings about...
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Microsoft Expands Copilot and AI Agent Capabilities in Power Apps
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Vanguard Lawyers Tokyo boosts legal speed and accuracy with Microsoft 365 Copilot, cutting email time, reducing costs, and accelerating case work.
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VS Code Updates Boost AI Agents, Terminal Control and Copilot Workflow
Across the April 8 and April 15, 2026 releases, Visual Studio Code expanded its agent-focused tooling with a new companion app, better terminal interaction,...
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LinkedIn’s AI Agent Product Becomes a Surprise Bright Spot for Microsoft
Microsoft has so far seen mixed results in its efforts to sell AI-powered products to businesses, with only around 3% of its Office 365 users paying to use...
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Hippocratic AI Launches Two Industry Firsts: AI Front Door and Nurse Co-Pilot to Expand Clinical Care and Access
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Microsoft Stellantis AI Alliance Deepens Azure Copilot And Security Story
Stellantis and Microsoft announced a five year collaboration to co develop more than 100 AI, cybersecurity, and engineering projects across vehicles,...
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AI & Productivity Show: Copilot, Agents, and What’s Actually Working
Marcus Law hosts a roundtable on what AI productivity looks like in the real world — what's delivering value today, what's still not landing, and what...
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has introduced new AI-powered features in Microsoft Word through Microsoft Copilot to enhance document editing and collaboration...
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Google adds Nano Banana-powered image generation to Gemini’s Personal Intelligence
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Gaxos expands its AI platform to make music, chat and build 3D models
User engagement rose after the rollout, broadening Gaxos Labs across image, video, music and text tools as feature expansion stays central to growth.
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Happy Horse 1.0 Surges to No.1 in Pure Visual Quality on Artificial Analysis Video Arena
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Toy Story in your pocket — I tested AI Image to Video 2.0 on the Honor 600 series, and it made me question what a photo is
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Gaxos Labs Expands AI Platform with Music Generation, AI Chat and 3D Model Creation, Driving Increased Engagement Across its AI Portfolio
Latest rollout broadens Gaxos' generative AI markets as expanded capabilities fuel user activity and platform momentum.
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