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MIT’s city cameras can count emissions and raise a surveillance problem

A new book argues computer vision could make streets measurable at scale, while warning that more cameras carry costs.

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Google proposes cloud memory that even Google says it cannot read

A new Private AI Compute design would store an assistant's long-term context in the cloud while keeping decryption keys on a user's devices.

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Claude agents traded 201 people's books. Reading their tastes was the hard part

Anthropic's book-swap experiment suggests an AI negotiator may bargain capably yet still misunderstand the person it represents.

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Microsoft puts an agentic security operations center in Defender preview

Microsoft’s new ISOC preview combines security data and controls inside Defender for humans and AI agents. The company has not published independent evidence that it improves outcomes.

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ESA and Mistral set a framework for AI in European space work

The European Space Agency and Mistral signed a letter of intent to explore AI for Earth observation and engineering. It names possible safeguards, but commits neither side to a deployed system.

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Microsoft’s science agent helps probe wastewater viruses, with caveats

A Microsoft Discovery case study describes AI-assisted analysis of wastewater sequencing data. The work remains exploratory, with candidate signals requiring human review and laboratory validation.

A branching retrosynthesis tree connects a target molecule to possible precursor molecules in Microsoft Research’s RetroChimera figure.AI
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Microsoft’s RetroChimera plans molecule recipes, but chemists still need to test them

The AI retrosynthesis system won expert approval in nine of ten benchmark routes, but its own team warns that predictions can hallucinate.

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IBM study finds workers worry AI erodes judgment as review work grows

In a global survey, 60% of employees worried AI was eroding their skills, while HR chiefs described new invisible work from checking AI output.

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Claude Opus 5.5 cuts typical agent costs by 40%, Anthropic says

Anthropic pairs a cheaper flagship model with stronger agent safeguards, but its real-world cost and safety claims still need independent testing.

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Google.org puts $4 million behind free AI training for educators

Digital Promise will expand teacher and community-college training, then publish guidance on what helps faculty use AI well.

GitHub Copilot model selection menu in an official documentation screenshot, with Manage Models highlighted; the pictured older models do not represent Grok 4.7 availability.AI
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Grok 4.7 rolls into GitHub Copilot with usage-based billing

GitHub is adding xAI’s model across editors, CLI and cloud agent, while administrators retain model policy controls.

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AI usage reaches 18.8% worldwide as the regional gap widens

Microsoft’s new diffusion estimate shows broad AI adoption gains but a growing divide between the Global North and South.