Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...
IEEE

Development of a Multi-Class Dress Code Detection System Utilizing RoboFlow Object Detection Model v3

Abstract: Dress code violations in educational institutions present ongoing challenges for administrators striving to maintain a balance between enforcing standards and fostering a sense of ...
Ars Technica

Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs how the vehicles navigate roads, but the ...
TechCrunch

Fundamental raises $255M Series A with a new take on big data analysis

An AI lab called Fundamental emerged from stealth on Thursday, offering a new foundation model to solve an old problem: how to draw insights from the huge quantities of structured data produced by ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Risk of AI Model Collapse to Drive Zero Trust Data Governance, Gartner Says

The proliferation of AI data, evolving regulatory requirements and risk of large language model (LLM) collapse will help to drive take up of zero trust approaches to data governance in the next two ...
Wall Street Journal

The Row Over South Korea’s Push for a Native AI Model: Chinese Code

SEOUL—Last June, the South Korean government launched a competition to create a new independent AI model developed with Korean technology. A homegrown tool like that was critical to ensuring Korea’s ...
VentureBeat

Alibaba's AgentEvolver lifts model performance in tool use by ~30% using synthetic, auto-generated tasks

Researchers at Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab have developed a new framework for self-evolving agents that create their own training data by exploring their application environments. The framework, AgentEvolver ...
Wall Street Journal

OpenAI’s Less-Flashy Rival Might Have a Better Business Model

OpenAI recently inked hundreds of billions of dollars of deals to build data centers filled with chips it hopes will further its AI dominance. But one of its rivals—the Amazon AMZN0.16%increase; green ...
9to5Mac

Apple highlights third-party apps using new Foundation Model models in iOS 26

iOS 26 includes multiple new Apple Intelligence features, but one of the biggest changes is that Apple has opened up its AI models to third-party developers. This allows third-party apps to plug ...
Forbes

The Document Object Model Is Dead: Stop Testing Like It’s 2010

A common misconception in automated software testing is that the document object model (DOM) is still the best way to interact with a web application. But this is less helpful when most front ends are ...
Harvard Business Review

The Case for Using Small Language Models

Until now, the AI revolution has been largely measured by size: the bigger the model, the bolder the claims. However, as we move closer to truly autonomous and pervasive AI systems, a new trend is ...