Scientists Use AI To Supercharge Ultrafast Laser Simulations by More Than 250x

Researchers have developed a deep-learning-based surrogate model that dramatically speeds up simulations of nonlinear optical ...
GeekWire

Microsoft 365 Copilot and the end of the single-model era in enterprise AI

[Editor’s Note: Agents of Transformation is an independent GeekWire series, underwritten by Accenture, exploring the adoption and impact of AI and agents. See coverage of our related event.] Using an ...
The New York Times

Meta Unveils New A.I. Model, Its First From the Superintelligence Lab

The model, Muse Spark, performed better than Meta’s previous A.I. models but lags rivals on coding ability. By Eli Tan Reporting from San Francisco Meta on Wednesday unveiled a new flagship artificial ...
techtimes

Microsoft Researcher AI Tool Upgrade Allows It to Use Multiple AI Models at the Same Time

Microsoft has released a new feature for Copilot's Researcher AI tool that expands its capabilities, allowing users to utilize multiple AI models at the same time. Instead of relying solely on ...
Engadget

Microsoft's research assistant can now use multiple AI models simultaneously

Microsoft's Copilot is getting even better at research thanks to a new feature that combines the power of both OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude. In a blog post announcing Copilot Cowork's ...
VentureBeat

Cursor’s new coding model Composer 2 is here: It beats Claude Opus 4.6 but still trails GPT-5.4

Cursor, a San Francisco AI coding platform from startup Anysphere valued at $29.3 billion, has launched Composer 2, a new fine-tuned variant of Chinese open source model Kimi K2.5 now available inside ...
Wired

What AI Models for War Actually Look Like

Anthropic might have misgivings about giving the US military unfettered access to its AI models, but some startups are building advanced AI specifically for military applications. Smack Technologies, ...
The New York Times

How to Use One 6-Ounce Can of Tomato Paste Across a Week of Dinners

Ras el hanout chickpea and spinach stew, three-bean soup and spiced tomato and eggplant pasta leave no tomato paste behind. By Tanya Sichynsky Nargisse Benkabbou’s ras el hanout chickpea and spinach ...
Harvard Business Review

When Every Company Can Use the Same AI Models, Context Becomes a Competitive Advantage

At a glance, the two large B2B companies were almost identical. Both sell complex, multi-year technology services; they compete for many of the same enterprise customers. Sales stages, forecasting ...
ZDNet

I stopped using ChatGPT for everything: These AI models beat it at research, coding, and more

Different AI models win at images, coding, and research. App integrations often add costly AI subscription layers. Obsessing over model version matters less than workflow. The pace of change in the ...
Quanta Magazine

Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality

Read a story about dogs, and you may remember it the next time you see one bounding through a park. That’s only possible because you have a unified concept of “dog” that isn’t tied to words or images ...
Reuters

Zara turns to AI to generate fashion imagery using real-life models

LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Zara has become the latest fast-fashion retailer to use AI to help create new images of real models in different outfits, speeding up the production process as part of an ...