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CNN reported that American forces came close to boarding a Chinese ship after acting on faulty intelligence generated by an AI system that produced a false or fabricated assessment. A source described the incident as a 'hallucination,' saying such AI errors are becoming a recurring pattern within the U.S. military rather than a one-time mistake.
Alibaba's research division Damo Academy has released as open source an AI vision-language model called Damo Radar, trained to interpret contrast-enhanced CT scans of 18 abdominal organs and flag around 150 conditions, including malignant tumors. Tested on nearly 40,000 real patient scans, the model reached an average diagnostic accuracy score (AUC) of 0.913 out of a possible 1.0 across 146 clinical findings.
UP.Labs has rebranded as Vantora after raising $100 million from Silversmith Capital Partners, shifting its model from building startups for the broader market to creating proprietary ventures exclusively for corporate partners. The firm still works with clients like Alaska Airlines and Porsche, and is now expanding into industrial manufacturing and oil and gas, with a heavier focus on physical AI applications such as retrofitting factory hardware for autonomy.
CNN reports a Pentagon analyst used an AI chatbot to assess a Chinese vessel's cargo, and the tool falsely concluded it carried nuclear weapons components by blending open-source data with classified signals intelligence. The false finding nearly led US forces to seize the ship before officials realized the assessment was fabricated by the AI.
Thousands of unionized security guards contracted through firms like Securitas and Allied Universal have walked off the job at Big Tech campuses in California. The strike follows a member vote earlier this month authorizing action after months of stalled contract negotiations with SEIU-United Service Workers West.
A US Special Operations Command analyst used an AI chatbot to help analyze intelligence about a Chinese vessel, and the tool wrongly concluded it was carrying nuclear weapons program components through the Middle East. The US military began preparing to intercept and board the ship with air support before officials realized the chatbot had misread the cargo data and the report was baseless.
Angle Health, a Y Combinator alum from 2020 that helps small businesses manage level-funded health plans, announced a $200 million Series C round plus a $400 million tender offer allowing employees to sell shares. The round, valuing the company at $2.7 billion, was led by Vitruvian Partners with participation from Town Hall Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Portage Ventures, PruVen Capital, and Y Combinator, and is expected to close later this month. Angle says it now serves over 5,000 businesses and is profitable.
Control Resonant is Remedy Entertainment's sequel to 2019's Control, following Dylan Faden as he tries to redeem himself after the Hiss overrun Manhattan and threaten the wider world. The game retains Remedy's signature strange, character-driven narrative but shifts to a broader, open-world structure centered on protagonist Dylan working with field leader Zoe.
A new report titled 'Pacing the Frontier' argues that despite widespread agreement among AI leaders that development may need to slow down, there is no clear technical or policy framework for how to actually do it. Coauthor Raymond Douglas of the University of Toronto says the field needs to treat slowdown as an unsolved research problem rather than a vague aspiration, especially as fears grow over AI systems being used to build even more powerful successors.
Elon Musk called this week for AI labs to test each other's models to catch safety issues before release, positioning this as an alternative to heavy government regulation. His stance contrasted with President Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who dismissed AI risk fears as a 'hoax' and urged faster development, even as reports emerged that Musk privately joined Huang and Mark Zuckerberg in advising Trump against an industry-funded AI regulator.
Diogo Almeida, a former OpenAI researcher who helped invent RLHF and build ChatGPT, has released a new transformer-based model called Jev through his startup TypeSafe AI. Unlike large language models, Jev doesn't generate text—it produces calibrated probability outputs, making it faster, cheaper and immune to hallucination. Developers have shown strong demand, with the company briefly unable to keep up with API traffic.
Athom's Homey hub now lets users update Matter, Z-Wave, and Zigbee smart home devices directly from its app, without opening separate manufacturer apps. For Matter devices specifically, Homey pulls firmware information straight from the Connectivity Standards Alliance's Distributed Compliance Ledger, bypassing the need for manufacturers to build update support into their own apps. Z-Wave and Zigbee updates depend on developer support, with an initial vendor list including IKEA, Aeotec, INNR, and others.