💊 Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs Secures $600M
Alphabet’s AI-driven biotech arm, Isomorphic Labs, just locked in $600 million in fresh capital. The funding will go toward developing AI systems for drug discovery and pushing some of their candidate therapies into clinical trials. This is a huge bet on AI revolutionizing medicine at scale—and with Alphabet behind it, expectations are sky-high.
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🧾 Zhipu AI Drops Free Research Assistant
Chinese AI firm Zhipu AI launched AutoGLM Rumination—a free, AI-powered assistant capable of performing web searches, writing research reports, and summarizing complex data. It’s a no-cost tool aimed at researchers, students, and businesses, positioning Zhipu as a serious local rival to OpenAI and Baidu in China’s AI race.
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🧠 OpenAI Teases Open-Weight Model
For the first time since GPT-2, OpenAI is gearing up to release an open-weight large language model. CEO Sam Altman says this move is part of their plan to support more collaboration and transparency in the AI community while maintaining guardrails on their most powerful tech.
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💸 OpenAI Seeks $40 Billion SoftBank-Backed Round
OpenAI is reportedly looking to raise a massive $40 billion, with SoftBank taking the lead. The money would supercharge OpenAI’s compute power and expand its AI infrastructure—likely a major step toward AGI-scale models.
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🛒 Amazon Bets Big on AI Agents
Amazon unveiled its Nova AI agents along with a new platform for AI-human interaction. Despite market jitters over new tariffs impacting its stock, the company says it's doubling down on AI investments and will significantly increase its capital expenditure in this space.
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⚖️ UK MPs Push for AI Copyright Reform
A cross-party group of MPs in the UK is calling on AI companies to come clean about the copyrighted material they're using to train their models—and start paying up. The proposal reflects growing pressure on tech firms to respect artists’ rights and operate more transparently.
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👩🏫 AI Could Ease Teachers’ Workload
UK Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson highlighted how AI could reduce teacher burnout by automating time-consuming tasks like grading and report writing. A small rollout of AI tools in vocational schools is already showing promise.
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👩💻 Gender Gaps in the Age of AI
Concerns are rising that the AI boom might widen existing gender gaps in tech. Leaders from Telstra and Macquarie Bank stressed the need for inclusive hiring and training strategies before the AI revolution leaves more women behind.
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