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Meta Unveils V-JEPA 2: Calls it 'a Breakthrough in Self-Supervised Video Learning for Robotic Intelligence'

Meta has introduced V-JEPA 2, a self-supervised video model designed to improve machine understanding of the physical world and enable robotic control without requiring task-specific training data. The model achieves state-of-the-art results on multiple visual understanding and prediction tasks and has been released alongside new benchmarks intended to evaluate physical reasoning in AI systems.

IBM Launches AI Agent Oversight Platform

As enterprises race to deploy autonomous AI systems, they're encountering fresh risks tied to oversight, security and compliance. Addressing these governance needs is IBM.

Google Expands Gemini 2.5 AI Model Line with Flash-Lite Preview

Google has announced general availability of its Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro models and introduced a new addition to the lineup, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, now in preview. The company said the new model is designed to be its fastest and most cost-efficient in the 2.5 family to date.

OpenAI Lands $200 Million Pentagon Deal to Build AI Tools for National Defense

OpenAI has secured a $200 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to build prototype artificial intelligence capabilities aimed at addressing high-priority national security challenges, marking a significant step in the tech company's growing footprint in public sector work.

Report: Cloud AI Adoption Soars, but Security Falls Behind

Enterprises are rapidly embracing AI services in the cloud, but most are overlooking essential protections tailored for these technologies, according to new findings from cloud security firm Wiz.

Cloud Security Alliance Debuts AI-Assisted Auditing Tool

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has introduced Valid-AI-ted, a new artificial intelligence-powered system that automates the validation of cloud service providers' (CSPs) security assessments, aiming to improve transparency and trust across the cloud computing landscape.

Sign of the Times: Cisco Launches AgenticOps Model for IT Management

Cisco launched a new solution this week to help organizations automate and streamline IT management across networking, security and application domains using -- of course -- AI.

Meta Assembles Team to Pursue Artificial General Intelligence

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is forming a new team focused on achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), amid internal dissatisfaction with the performance of its current AI offerings. The team, known internally as the superintelligence group, is part of a broader effort to enhance Meta’s AI capabilities.

Inside OpenAI's New Report: How AI Is Fueling—and Fighting—Digital Threats

OpenAI has published a detailed report outlining how its security teams are identifying and countering the malicious use of AI models -- including on cloud platforms -- across a range of cyber and social threats.

Hugging Face Releases SmolVLA, a Compact Open-Source Robotics Model

Hugging Face has introduced SmolVLA, a lightweight open-source Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model for robotics that operates on consumer-grade hardware and is trained entirely on community-contributed data.

Apple’s AI Playbook Goes Local: Developers Get On-Device Intelligence and ChatGPT in Xcode

At its 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple introduced a subtle but significant shift in its machine learning strategy: embedding large language model (LLM) capabilities directly into developers’ toolkits, while keeping the computation on-device and under Apple’s tightly guarded privacy umbrella.

AI Pioneer Bengio Launches Nonprofit to Curb Deceptive AI Behavior

Yoshua Bengio, a Turing Award-winning AI researcher often dubbed one of the "godfathers" of artificial intelligence, has launched a new nonprofit, LawZero, aimed at developing AI systems that prioritize safety and truthfulness over autonomy

Cloud Security Alliance Unveils Red Teaming Playbook for Agentic AI Systems

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has released a comprehensive red teaming guide for Agentic AI systems, targeting the security and testing challenges posed by increasingly autonomous artificial intelligence.

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