AI-powered toys navigate safety concerns after early missteps

Manufacturers unveiled a new generation of AI-powered generative toys at the Consumer Electronics Show, but emphasized careful safety measures after early models produced inappropriate responses in testing. Toy makers at the Consumer Electronics Show highlighted efforts to improve AI in toys following troubling early reports of chatbots giving inappropriate answers to children’s questions. A recent…

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Wisconsin Assembly passes bill to regulate AI data centers

MADISON, Wis. (Gray) – The Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill Tuesday to regulate the state’s growing artificial intelligence data center industry. The bill moved quickly through the Statehouse, receiving a vote less than two weeks after being introduced. The bill passed 53-44, largely along partisan lines, with Democrats opposing it. “This bill balances the strategic…

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Transformer architecture, the one innovation that supercharged AI: Best ideas of the century

Today’s most powerful AI tools – those that can summarize documents, generate artwork, write poetry or predict how incredibly complex proteins fold – all rest on the shoulders of the “transformer”. This neural network architecture, first announced in 2017 at a modest conference center in California, allows machines to process information in a way that…

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Making AI smarter without more training data | UCR News

A study by UC Riverside researchers offers a practical solution to one of artificial intelligence’s toughest challenges by enabling AI systems to reason more like humans, without requiring new training data beyond testing questions. In a preprint paper entitled “Test-Time Matching: Unlocking Compositional Reasoning in Multimodal Models”, assistant professor Yinglun Zhu and students introduce a…

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Cast AI Valued at Over $1 Billion With the Launch of Its GPU Marketplace

OMNI Compute is a unified compute marketplace that allows businesses to access, provision, and operate GPUs in any cloud or region, with no code changes required. MIAMI, January 12, 2026–(BUSINESS FEED)–Cast AI, the leading application performance automation platform, was introduced today OMNI calculationa unified compute control plane that automatically discovers available resources across cloud providers…

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