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Artificial intelligence news from the labs, platforms and agencies shaping it: model releases, research, safety and standards.
Modus Labs releases Financial Audit Bench for AI audit agents
An open-source benchmark tested 11 frontier models on audit fieldwork and found strict pass rates fall sharply when procedures must succeed on every run.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Linux Foundation report says OpenSearch production use doubled
The Linux Foundation's 2026 data infrastructure research reports 83% of organizations run or plan AI workloads and OpenSearch production adoption rising from 19% to 36%.
Linux Foundation
MIT Transit Lab wins $2.1M from Google.org for AI transit hub
The three-year Public Transit Intelligence Hub project aims to merge fragmented control-center data into one AI-orchestrated platform for transit staff and riders.
MIT
Google AI model tops CDC FluSight flu hospitalization ranking
Google says its forecasting model, built with an AI tool called Empirical Research Assistance, best matched observed U.S. flu hospital admissions in the 2025-26 season.
Google
Google DeepMind extends SynthID watermarks to AI-made proteins
The company says its SynthID Bio watermarks survive into physical proteins and could help DNA synthesis providers verify that orders came from trusted AI models.
Google DeepMind
NUS opens GeoAI degree it calls Asia’s first, with 28 students
The National University of Singapore says its new geospatial intelligence degree, run with the School of Computing, trains students in geospatial data, computing and AI.
NUS
Instagram Direct cuts AI agent token cost 33% with Jetpack Compose
Meta and Google say rebuilding Instagram Direct's Android UI around Compose halved the UI code and made AI coding agents cheaper and faster on the codebase.
Google
Google Research unveils Diffusion Controller for image steering
Google says its lightweight add-on network improves prompt alignment in text-to-image models, including closed-source systems, without altering the frozen base model.
Google Research
Microsoft Research unveils Quine, an AI world model of biology
Microsoft says its experimental Quine system combines a multimodal biology model with a research harness, and ranked cancer compounds later tested with the Broad Institute.
Microsoft
Google shows Android agentic workflows using ADK, AG-UI and A2UI
Google's Android Developers Blog details how cloud-hosted agents can stream interactive UI to Jetpack Compose apps using new alpha A2UI renderer libraries.
Google