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Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Code agents generated 3M lines of Lean proofs to formally verify Signal's encryption core.
Google DeepMind researchers used agentic AI framework AlphaProof Code to verify the Signal protocol's cryptographic guarantees, in a four-week proof-of-concept (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
Google DeepMind used AlphaProof to formally verify Signal's cryptographic protocol in a four-week proof-of-concept.
Meituan releases weights for LongCat-2.5, a 1.6T-parameter MoE model for long-horizon agentic tasks, under the MIT license, after unveiling it on November 1 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
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After challenging Google’s Android with Cyanogen, its co-founder takes aim at Windows for AI era
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Photoshop, Lightroom, and Premiere are making it easier to remove things
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Amazon's Ring unveils the $249 Ring Drone Cam and the $999 Ring Rover Cam, utilizing its AI Pilot navigation software, under new subbrand Ring Robotics (Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET)
Amazon Ring launches drone and rover surveillance cameras using AI Pilot navigation; $249 drone, $999 rover for home/business monitoring.
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Hands-on with Ring’s new AI drone camera for your home
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AI microdramas cause ‘aesthetic fatigue’, professor tells Macau forum
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Rep. Moolenaar speaks to CNBC on congressional investigation into Nvidia CEO Huang's affair with alleged Chinese spy
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