Tavus announced Griffin, which it calls the first model to pass the video Turing test, with 48% of people who talked to it live believing it was a real human, versus a pass rate below 3% for previous …
Shipd.ai, operated by Datacurve, runs a contributor platform where engineers from 40+ countries solve STEM problems — software engineering, machine learning, and data science — to produce training dat…
The W3C and GS1 workshop "E-Commerce for Humans and AI Agents," held in Zurich on September 8–9, 2026 and co-hosted by Google, concluded without a formal outcomes report, leaving unresolved how the in…
Causum, founded by Reza Fatahi, launched the AI Agency Protocol (AIAP) on August 20 to place expiration dates on AI agent authority by inserting an authorization broker between agents and credentials.…
Multiverse, the London-based apprenticeship and AI training platform founded by Euan Blair, closed a $70 million funding round led by Schroders Capital on May 15, pushing its total fundraising to appr…
Michigan State University researchers found that an AI system trained to distinguish between digital organisms that can replicate and those that cannot became almost 100 percent certain that nonliving…
Three Case Western Reserve University students built a webapp called CWRU Free Food Finder during a 2024 hackathon, using a fine-tuned OpenAI model to scan the university's CampusGroups event manageme…
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested the ERNEST rover prototype in California's Colorado Desert, covering 16 miles in 37 hours at speeds up to 0.6 mph—10 times faster than current Mars rovers. The …
NASA has selected a payload to fly on a commercial Mars orbiter being developed by a rocket company that has yet to reach orbit, marking a new approach to interplanetary exploration by leveraging priv…
NASA's Psyche spacecraft, launched in October 2023, successfully performed a Mars flyby last week, using the planet's gravity to gain a 1,000-mile-per-hour speed boost and adjust its trajectory toward…