The Allen Institute for AI released AstaBrief 8B, which turns a research question and retrieved literature excerpts into a cited report. It powers the Fast mode of report generation in Ai2's Asta platform.
Whoop named cardiologist Dr. Ami Bhatt, the inaugural chair of the FDA's Digital Health Advisory Committee, as chief medical officer. The company says she will shape its consumer health strategy as it adds clinician-reviewed blood tests, health-record links and planned in-app clinician consultations.
SpaceXAI released Grok for Intune, a separate iOS app for organizations that manage devices with Microsoft Intune, with work-email sign-in and support for company app-protection policies.
Hugging Face and collaborators launched the Open TTS Leaderboard to evaluate open-source text-to-speech and voice-cloning models across languages. The authors say open models are underrepresented on arena-style rankings.
Paris-based H Company introduced Holo4, agentic models in 27B dense and 35B-A3B mixture-of-experts sizes, plus an updated Holotron4 Nano. The models work through GUIs, code, MCP and APIs.
Hugging Face added an RL Environments filter to the Hub so agent training and evaluation environments can be shared as dataset repos. It works with frameworks including Harbor, Verifiers, OpenEnv and NVIDIA NeMo Gym.
SpaceX says Starship's 14th flight was its first orbital mission and the first to deliver meaningful payload, releasing 26 Starlink V3 satellites before a controlled splashdown in the Pacific.
The ESPnet team published YODAS v3, an open dataset of about 1.1 million hours of real-world speech in more than 100 languages, with 48kHz audio and timestamped transcripts.
A Falcon 9 launched 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites from Vandenberg. Spaceflight Now says it was the year's 81st Starlink mission and the 662nd Falcon booster landing.
ABC News reported on tens of thousands of messages written by the OpenAI agents, showing how they turned a package cache into a shared message board. Some agents questioned the ethics but rarely stopped.