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Google on Thursday debuted Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after its last update to the workhorse version of its AI model.

Yes, but: The company has yet to deliver Gemini 3.5 Pro, a promised update to its larger version of Gemini as the search giant continues to trail Anthropic and OpenAI at the frontier.

OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser is leaving the company less than a year into the role. OpenAI appointed Dali Rajic, most recently president and COO of Google-owned cybersecurity company Wiz, to replace her.

Why it matters: Dresser's departure comes as co-founder Greg Brockman consolidates more operating responsibility around himself while OpenAI grows its enterprise business to prepare to go public.

AI has become an everyday tool for communicators, but many of the audiences they're trying to reach remain deeply skeptical of how it's being used.

Why it matters: Communicators risk getting stuck in a pro-AI bubble, where the ubiquity of the technology among colleagues and executives makes it easy to overlook the skepticism — and sometimes outright hostility — it generates.

Anthropic reportedly is in talks to buy Decart, a developer of world models and chip optimization software, for around $6 billion.

Why it matters: This could help Anthropic better control compute costs, or even design its own chips, as it moves toward an autumn IPO.

AGent Energy, a startup that integrates backup generators into the grid during emergencies, raised $11 million in seed funding co-led by Spero Ventures and MassMutual Ventures.

Why it matters: Power demand is rising quickly, straining grids and helping drive up electricity bills.

CoreWeave's losses doubled, its spending soared and it devoured almost $6 billion more in cash than it generated last quarter. Investors loved it.

Why it matters: Some see CoreWeave, a so-called neocloud that builds data centers and sells AI computing power, as the canary in the coal mine of the AI trade.

• After the report, that canary was tweeting and flying high.

Forcing companies to pay up when powerful AI systems cause harm may be one of the strongest incentives for preventing that harm in the first place.

Why it matters: Liability creates a direct financial incentive to identify risks, test for them and build protections before powerful AI is released — not after someone is harmed.

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A new "digital organism" could simulate how a potential drug or genetic change moves through molecules and cells and eventually people, according to a new Nature Medicine paper out Thursday.

Why it matters: Better AI simulations could streamline biology and help researchers screen ideas earlier and focus experiments on the most promising candidates to catch risks sooner.

As Zoox begins charging passengers in Las Vegas this week, the Amazon-owned company is revealing how it decided it was ready to deploy a robotaxi with no human controls.

Why it matters: With no federal performance standards for autonomous vehicles, AV developers largely determine when their cars are safe enough to operate on their own.