NewBits Digest

AI isn’t here to replace teachers—it’s helping them work smarter. Many schools are embracing AI as a time-saving tutor, but district...

A federal judge ruled that Google will not be forced to sell Chrome or Android—even though the company was found to hold an illegal...

OpenAI is expanding beyond ChatGPT, launching a new OpenAI jobs platform paired with AI fluency certifications built directly inside the...

UCLA researchers are showing what’s possible when artificial intelligence meets brain–computer interfaces. Their latest breakthrough is a...

Anthropic has closed a massive $13B Series F that lifts its valuation to $183B. The raise comes as enterprise demand surges and its coding assistant, Claude Code, posts remarkable adoption and revenue growth. This Anthropic 13B funding round signals a new phase in the AI startup race. 🗞️ The Gist of Anthropic $13B Funding 300,000+ business customers; “large accounts” ($100k+ run-rate) up nearly 7× year over year. Claude Code has crossed $500M run-rate revenue with usage jump

Florida welcomed a record 34.4 million visitors this summer, underscoring the state’s role as a global hub for tourism, entertainment,...

Sapient Intelligence, a Singapore-based AI startup, has introduced the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM)—a brain-inspired architecture...

Gemini Flash 2.5 Image—nicknamed Google Nano Banana—is Google’s newest AI model for editing photos. Instead of clunky prompts and...

After years of leaning on OpenAI, Microsoft just unveiled its first proprietary models: MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview. It’s a major...

Apple is in active talks with Google about a custom Gemini model that would run on Apple servers and supercharge Siri. A decision on...

On August 27, 2025, a16z published the fifth edition of its Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps, a benchmark for tracking the most widely used...

From blueprint-mapping robots to four-legged robo-dogs, Suffolk Construction company is using AI to make building projects in Florida...

A recent MIT AI brain study warns that over-reliance on AI could dull our neural engagement and weaken recall — but there are ways to use...

At its ‘Made by Google’ event, Google rolled out the Pixel 10 lineup, powered by the new Tensor G5 chip and a slate of Google Pixel 10 AI...

Alibaba’s Qwen team has unveiled Qwen Image Edit, a 20B-parameter open source model for high-precision image editing and style...

Meta is shaking up its AI strategy with a massive internal restructure and a division-wide hiring freeze following an aggressive talent...

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has published an essay warning that AI systems mimicking consciousness—what he calls Seemingly...

Artificial intelligence is racing ahead — and Florida Bar leaders are working just as quickly to balance its promise with its risks. At a...

The new perplexity comet browser is positioning itself as a streamlined alternative to Chrome, offering an appealing mix of speed,...

Meta’s FAIR team just unveiled TRIBE — a 1B-parameter neural network that can predict how the human brain responds to movies. The system...