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Researchers develop a multi-agent AI framework combining language models, computer vision and structural sensor data to improve the monitoring of historic masonry buildings.

ORCA Computing unveils its PT-3 photonic quantum computer, reporting gains in AI-driven protein discovery and industrial optimization through hybrid quantum-classical computing.

I watched the Beneficial AGI Summit & Unconference 2025 online. This post collects some personal impressions. I was impressed by the enthusiastic drive and sense of purpose that I could feel in the air, even watching online from afar.

Google has released Gemini 4 Argon globally for developers and enterprises, offering a frontier AI model that ranks first on benchmarks across finance, coding, legal, and tax work. The model demonstrates substantial gains in engineering productivity, open-source software optimization, 3D visualization, and scientific research at an introductory price of $2 per million input tokens.

A new brain-computer interface can translate a paralyzed person's attempts to speak and gesture into text and a digital avatar's movements using a single implant and AI models, opening new possibilities for natural communication.

Microsoft has unveiled the Maia 300, its third-generation AI accelerator designed for multi-gigawatt datacenter deployments starting in 2027. The chip delivers up to 7 times the rack-scale throughput of its predecessor and targets long-context reasoning, conversational AI, and agentic workloads with significantly improved energy efficiency.

Meta has released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its most capable AI models designed for personal and professional agentic tasks. The models introduce two key capabilities - Active Memory for retaining context across conversations and Active Focus for sustained effort on complex goals - and achieve state-of-the-art results on benchmarks for memory, coding, and domain expertise in law, finance, and health. Muse Wonder is available through Meta's API and Muse Code subscription, with Meta positioning the release as a step toward "personal superintelligence" for billions of users.