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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
šTop Artificial Intelligence Statistics for 2026
š§ Andrej Karpathyās 2025 LLM Year in Review
šļøTop 5 Vector Databases for High-Performance LLM Applications
š¬ DeepMind Opens Gemmaās Black Box
š¤Anthropic pairs Opus 4.5 gains with āBloomā safety framework
š” AI Tutorial:Schedule meetings faster in Gmail using AI
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Although virus ecogenomics has expanded access to and understanding of the virosphere, existing classification tools lack taxonomic resolution and are unable to scale to modern discovery-based datasets or classify previously unknown sequence space. Here we develop vConTACT3āa machine learning-based tool that improves scalability and accuracy of virus taxonomy.
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The scarcity of these treasured artworks has helped drive their prices, in exceptional cases, to thin-air heights, without moving in lockstep with other asset classes.
The contemporary and post war segments have even outpaced the S&P 500 overall since 1995.*
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In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands as a beacon of innovation, transforming industries and shaping the future. As we step into 2026, letās delve into the latest AI statistics that illuminate the current state and trajectory of this powerful technology.
2025 has been a strong and eventful year of progress in LLMs. The following is a list of personally notable and mildly surprising "paradigm changes" - things that altered the landscape and stood out to me conceptually.
This article covers the top five vector databases for production LLM applications. Weāll explore what makes each unique, their key features, and practical learning resources to help you choose the right one.
Google are releasing Gemma Scope 2: a comprehensive, open suite of interpretability tools for all Gemma 3 model sizes, from 270M to 27B parameters. These tools can enable us to trace potential risks across the entire "brain" of the model.
Q4 is the perfect window to turn this yearās numbers into a clear, actionable forecast aligned with your goals. Set your business up for a stronger 2026 with BELAYās new guide.
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OpenAI is rolling out new personalization options that let users fine-tune how ChatGPT sounds and behaves. You can choose more or less warmth and enthusiasm, control emoji use, and tweak how often headers and lists appear. Users can pick preset personalities like professional or friendly. Email workflows are smoother too, with direct formatting inside chat and the ability to highlight text and request targeted edits without rewriting prompts.
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Kuaishou has rolled out two updates for Kling 2.6 focused on sound and movement. Voice control lets creators generate spoken dialogue, narration, singing, and scene audio directly inside text to video workflows. Users can upload a voice or train one for reuse across multiple clips.
We're releasing Bloom, an open source agentic framework for generating behavioral evaluations of frontier AI models. Bloom takes a researcher-specified behavior and quantifies its frequency and severity across automatically generated scenarios. Bloom's evaluations correlate strongly with our hand-labeled judgments and we find they reliably separate baseline models from intentionally misaligned ones.
Tesla won its fight over Elon Musk's record-breaking pay package approved by shareholders in 2018. The Delaware Supreme Court said the lower court's ruling would have deprived Musk of compensation for several years of work, so he should get the full pay package. Musk's 2018 stock options have grown in value to $139 billion
Alphabet-owned Waymo temporarily suspended its driverless taxi service in San Francisco on Saturday after a citywide power outage left several vehicles stalled and blocking intersections. The company restored operations Sunday once power returned to affected areas.
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