NVIDIA has introduced the Nemotron ColEmbed V2, a new family of late-interaction embedding models designed for multimodal retrieval, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the ViDoRe V3 benchmark.


Mistral AI has unveiled two new speech-to-text models, Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 and Voxtral Realtime, designed for fast and efficient translation across 13 languages. These models can run locally on devices, offering a cost-effective alternative to larger competitors.






A new report reveals that AI bots are increasingly dominating web traffic, with implications for how the internet functions and how businesses operate. The rise of AI scraping bots is creating both challenges and opportunities for publishers and web services.


The US Department of Health and Human Services is creating an AI tool to analyze vaccine injury data, raising concerns about its potential misuse by anti-vaccine advocates. The tool aims to identify patterns in adverse event reports but has not yet been deployed.





Sam Altman discusses his vision for OpenAI's future, including a controversial succession plan to hand the company over to an AI model, amidst claims of having 'basically built AGI'.
