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The 6 top stories of the 52 AIBriefs curated that day.
WeatherNext 3 generates hourly forecasts at up to 5-kilometer resolution, roughly five times sharper than WeatherNext 2, and is now in Search, Gemini, Maps, and Cloud. It ranks as the best global weather model on Brightband's live leaderboard.
The system successfully generated a drug design that was independently confirmed by Merck. The project moves beyond single-agent workflows to a massive, multi-agent architecture for biomedical data science.
The SIM-VAIL framework evaluated 810 conversations across 9 frontier AI models, finding that chatbots often amplify simulated users' psychological vulnerabilities. Risk was highest when supportive behaviors reinforced the mechanisms underlying a user's specific psychiatric vulnerability.
Ask Maps now handles multi-step tasks: food ordering via Square, Toast, and Uber Eats (coming soon), hotel booking with real-time price comparison, and event discovery. Personal Intelligence pulls context from Gmail and Google Calendar. Rolling out in the U.S. and in English across 150+ countries.
Unitree Robotics raised 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) in its Shanghai IPO, becoming the first listed humanoid robot maker in mainland China. Shares surged in the debut, valuing the company at $66 billion, though it later lost nearly half its value.
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