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Adobe Launches Acrobat Studio, Bringing AI to the PDF
Adobe wants to bring the PDF into the AI era. For more than 30 years, this business file format has been the workhorse of office communication. Now, Adobe is giving it a significant upgrade with Acrobat Studio, a new tool helping companies mine insights, inform decisions, and reformat these documents into polished, on-brand content—no design…
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U.S. and Nvidia Invest $152M in Open AI Models to Drive Scientific Breakthroughs
The United States is teaming up with Nvidia to develop a new generation of AI models aimed at accelerating scientific breakthroughs and strengthening the country’s leadership in AI research. The National Science Foundation (NSF) will invest $75 million in the Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science (OMAI) project, which is led by nonprofit research…
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Ai2’s MolmoAct Trains Robots to Think in 3D Before Acting in Reality
Ai2, or the Allen Institute for AI, is unveiling a new class of models designed to help robots move through the world with greater spatial awareness. Known as Action Reasoning Models (ARM), it’s billed as giving machines spatial awareness that text-based inputs alone can’t deliver. The first in this ARM family is MolmoAct, an open-source…
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Vercel’s v0 Breaks Out of the Developer Box as a Universal Coding Agent
Vercel, the cloud infrastructure platform, is releasing an update turning its v0 agent into an AI builder for everyone. It’s no longer a vibe coding tool exclusively for software developers. Instead, it’s a tool that designers, marketers, sales, finance professionals, or anyone with an idea can use to rapidly create software without needing “a single…
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Google’s Jules Coding Agent Exits Beta, Joins the AI Coding Arms Race
Google’s rival to GitHub Copilot, OpenAI’s Codex, and Cursor is now publicly available. After three months in beta, the company’s AI coding assistant, Jules, has launched, now powered by Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro model. A product from Google Labs, Jules was initially an experimental AI agent first announced in December 2024. Six months later, it…
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Everyone’s a Prompt Engineer Now
Artificial intelligence existed for decades before ChatGPT, but it mostly operated behind the scenes—powering recommendation engines, detecting fraud, and optimizing logistics. Back then, technical professionals like engineers and data scientists were the ones steering these systems. But with the rise of generative AI in the workplace, anyone can now instruct the bots on what to…
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Google Still Owns Search—But ChatGPT Is Winning on Action
New data from the enterprise SEO firm BrightEdge reveals how artificial intelligence is redefining the search industry. Does it suggest that Google’s dominance is coming to an end? No, but it shows what the next era of search is shaping up to look like, one where task-oriented assistants like ChatGPT increasingly handle decision-making and action,…
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With ‘The Unfinished Film,’ Adobe Invites Creators to Complete the Story Using AI
Adobe is keen on showcasing the creative power of its Firefly AI. To achieve this goal, the company is launching “The Unfinished Film,” a collaborative project helmed by director Sam Finn with the premise that only the beginning of the movie has been created; the rest is up to you. Creators, filmmakers, designers, artists, and…
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HubSpot Embraces Multi-AI CRM Strategy with Claude Integration
HubSpot is expanding its list of AI models connected to its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. Customers can now connect their databases to Anthropic’s Claude, allowing them to query data using natural language, generate visualizations, and take action—all within HubSpot. This is the second such connector the company has introduced, following the introduction of ChatGPT…
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linux Foundation Takes Charge of AGNTCY to Build the Open Internet of AI Agents
Two of the most influential interoperability standards for AI agents are now under the stewardship of the linux Foundation, marking a major step towards an open, interconnected agent ecosystem. The nonprofit organization announced on Tuesday that it is now custodian of the AGNTCY project, an initiative backed by Cisco, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Gaileo, and Glean. This…