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Waymo's leaked system prompt reveals a 1,200-line rulebook for its in-car Gemini assistant

Prompt engineers, take note: Jane Manchun Wong has uncovered the system prompt for Waymo's unreleased Gemini AI assistant, a specification over 1,200 lines long buried in the Waymo app's code. The ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Anthropic's AI kiosk agent bought a PlayStation 5, ordered a live fish, and drove itself to bankruptcy The Wall Street Journal ran its own test of Anthropic's AI kiosk, and ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Report: OpenAI may embed sponsored content directly into ChatGPT responses OpenAI's advertising plans for ChatGPT are taking shape. According to The Information, employees are ...
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Jonathan Kemper

Google’s new A2UI standard gives AI agents the ability to create graphical interfaces on the fly. Instead of just sending text, AIs can now generate forms, buttons, and other UI elements that blend ...
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"The winner takes it all!" - The US-China AI race explained

In the race for AI supremacy, there are two possible winners and the EU. An overview and assessment of the status quo. The global race to develop the best AI systems is in full swing. For years, the ...
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LeCun now reports to Alexandr Wang as Meta reshuffles its top AI leadership

Yann LeCun, Meta's AI icon and longtime head of the FAIR research group, will now report to 28-year-old Alexandr Wang. Wang, who founded Scale AI, was recently tapped to lead the new Meta ...
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Chatbots are now rivaling social networks as a core layer of internet infrastructure

Generative AI systems reached around seven billion monthly web visits in September 2025, a 76% increase compared to the previous year, according to Similarweb. ChatGPT remains at the center of the AI ...
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Anthropic claims context engineering beats prompt engineering when managing AI agents

Anthropic describes "context engineering" as a further development of prompt engineering, aimed at helping AI agents use their limited attention more efficiently and stay consistent in long-term tasks ...
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Biden splits the world into three groups with new AI chip export controls

The US government announces a new three-tier licensing system for the export of AI chips. Close allies will have unrestricted access, around 120 countries will be subject to quantity restrictions, and ...
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Trump advisors are pushing a regulation targeting what they call "woke" AI models in the tech sector

The Trump administration is preparing a regulation that would require AI companies holding federal contracts to ensure their systems remain politically neutral, as part of a broader campaign to curb ...
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Transformer co-creator Vaswani unveils high-performance Rnj-1 coding model

Essential AI's new open-source model, Rnj-1, outperforms significantly larger competitors on the "SWE-bench Verified" test. This benchmark is considered particularly challenging because it evaluates ...
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Amazon to launch AI-enhanced Alexa subscription in October

Amazon plans to release an upgraded Alexa with new AI capabilities in October. The improved assistant will offer personalized news summaries and better conversation skills. Internally dubbed ...