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What Is NVIDIA Alpamayo? A Self-Driving AI Model That Reasons
NVIDIA's Alpamayo, unveiled at CES 2026, is an open-source autonomous-vehicle VLA model that reasons through unfamiliar driving situations instead of just reacting to them.
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Pentagon Adds ChatGPT and Grok to GenAI.mil — Now Past 1.7 Million Users
The Pentagon's unified generative AI portal, GenAI.mil, has added OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government, joining Google Gemini to offer three AI models.
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What Is Qwen3.8-27B? Alibaba's Open-Source Vision-Language Model
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-27B under the Apache 2.0 license — a 27-billion-parameter native vision-language model that climbed into Hugging Face's most-liked models within two days of release.
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US Launches Pre-Release Review for Frontier AI Models — GPT-5.6 and Claude Are First
Under Executive Order 14409, the US government has actually reviewed OpenAI's GPT-5.6 and Anthropic's Claude models. The process is voluntary, but access can still be restricted over national security concerns.
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Anthropic Adds a Watermark to Claude Text in Response to the EU AI Act
In response to the EU AI Act's transparency rules, Anthropic has begun applying an invisible watermark to text generated by Claude, worldwide.
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DARPA and U.S. Air Force Test AI-Piloted F-16 Autonomous Flight
DARPA and the U.S. Air Force revealed a test flying an F-16 modified under the VENOM program under AI control.
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Google DeepMind Reorganizes as Demis Hassabis Steps Down as CEO
Google DeepMind has moved Demis Hassabis from CEO to Board Chair and Alphabet Chief Scientist, with Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over day-to-day operations.
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Meta Releases Concept-Based Segmentation Model SAM 3
Meta AI Research released SAM 3, which segments and tracks every instance matching a concept specified via text or image examples.
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Berkeley Lab Cuts X-ray/Neutron Imaging Analysis from a Month to 15 Minutes with SAM 3 and DINOv3
The Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab is running the SYNAPS-I project, using Meta's open-source vision models SAM 3 and DINOv3 to dramatically speed up beamline scientific imaging analysis.
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SenseTime Open-Sources SenseNova-Vision, a Unified Vision Model
Chinese AI company SenseTime has open-sourced SenseNova-Vision, a single model that handles detection, segmentation, depth estimation, and 3D reconstruction.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google to Join White House AI Safety Meeting
The US government invited major AI companies to a White House meeting to discuss a voluntary framework for AI model safety testing.