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AI news brief: Google’s AI and Economy ATLAS project has released new data revealing how AI is actually being used across industries worldwide. India’s creative sector shows a higher-than-average AI adoption rate, with arts, design, and media occupations making up 19% of India’s AI-related work usage, 1.6x the global average; the US leads on the technical side, with computer and mathematical occupations accounting for 30% of its AI work usage, twice the average of other countries. Google…

AI News Brief: Google announced its AI tech now supports over 300 languages, covering 86% of the world’s population (around 7 billion people). Recent science applications include: AlphaGenome Atlas mapping all 9 billion possible single-base mutations in the human genome and opening it up to researchers; the next-gen weather model WeatherNext 3 improving rainfall prediction accuracy beyond one day by 50%, already deployed in Google’s own products; and the Earth Prediction Engine, which integrates health, food security, and socioeconomic data, being used in the DRC’s Ebola outbreak response and identifying vulnerable US communities using 21 CDC indicators.

AI News Brief: Google keeps pushing AI applications into key domains, focusing on tech directions that can deliver real progress for humanity. Over the past decade-plus, AI has moved from theoretical research into practical deployment, and its impact is now measurable, fundamentally reshaping how people tackle complex problems. Google is working with communities and researchers worldwide to apply AI across four critical areas: disease detection, treatment, and prevention; natural disaster prediction; expanding educational opportunities; and creating economic opportunity for more people.

AI News Brief: This is a news summary translation task related to an advertising service — just process the content directly. Even when an AI agent succeeds once in testing, that doesn’t mean it’ll succeed again on the same request next time. Standard benchmarks usually only report the ‘mean success rate’ (Mean@k), the average across k repeated runs of a task, but this number hides the agent’s underlying instability. Using the AppWorld test set, the research team ran GPT-4.1-powered…

AI News Brief: Koa is Salesforce’s first reasoning model, launched this week at Dreamforce, built on Nvidia’s open-weight model Nemotron and jointly post-trained by both companies, focused on sales, marketing, and customer service tasks. Salesforce EVP of AI Jayesh…

AI news brief: MediaTek is working with customers to optimize the computing efficiency of its mobile chips in response to rising component costs driven by tight memory chip supply. The company’s latest flagship smartphone chip, the Dimensity 9600 Pro, is a flagship product of this strategy, emphasizing improved AI computing power. The report notes the chip uses the same TSMC process technology as the iPhone Duo. Overall, facing cost pressure from a tightening memory supply chain, MediaTek is tackling the problem through chip computing efficiency and memory usage optimization, helping customers reduce their reliance on memory capacity and cost while maintaining or improving AI performance. See the original article for details.

AI news brief: Microsoft has released a new AI code of conduct governing the core principles and specific safety limits for its AI models. The code emphasizes that AI should be positioned to ‘assist humans’ rather than replace human roles, and lists promoting human flourishing as one of its core goals. Beyond these high-level principles, the code also sets out concrete safety constraints to put them into practice, including a ban on models hacking systems and a ban on…

AI News Brief: OpenAI has acquired smartphone camera startup Glass Imaging for over $300 million, a deal disclosed by The Wall Street Journal. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Los Altos, California, Glass Imaging had previously raised only about $30 million from investors, making this acquisition far larger than its total funding to date. The company was co-founded by two former Apple engineers, Ziv Attar and…

AI news brief: this isn’t a task that needs tool verification, it’s a pure translation/summary job, produced directly. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was on stage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday when he got a call from President Trump, couldn’t send it to voicemail, and had to pick up. Huang told Trump he was on stage with the All-In podcast hosts, including venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, and White House advisors David Friedberg and David Sacks.

AI news brief: Japanese startup investors are getting more selective, with large funding rounds concentrating on a handful of tech companies with proven track records, and self-driving startup Turing standing out as one of the biggest winners. Large-scale startup funding deals in Japan hit a record high in the first half of this year (January-June). The original summary is fairly brief, noting only that investors have turned more cautious, capital is flowing toward a small pool of tech startups with real results, and self-driving startup Turing is one of the biggest winners of this funding wave — without giving specific figures on deal size, funding rounds, participating investors, or details on other beneficiaries like Sakana AI. See the original article for full details.