UpToDay – AI

Stories & Sources - 1. Google adds Flex and Priority tiers to Gemini API — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-flex-and-priority-inference/ - 2. NVIDIA and Google optimize Gemma 4 for local GPUs and agents — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/rtx-ai-garage-open-models-google-gemma-4/ - 3. Google Vids offers free videos, custom music and AI avatars — https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/workspace/google-vids-updates-lyria-veo/ - 4. OpenAI acquires TBPN, preserves editorial independence — https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-tbpn

Stories & Sources - 1. From RTX to Spark: NVIDIA Accelerates Gemma 4 for Local Agentic AI — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/rtx-ai-garage-open-models-google-gemma-4/ - 2. New ways to balance cost and reliability in the Gemini API — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-flex-and-priority-inference/ - 3. Create, edit and share videos at no cost in Google Vids — https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/workspace/google-vids-updates-lyria-veo/ - 4. OpenAI acquires TBPN — https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-tbpn - 5. Codex now offers more flexible pricing for teams — https://openai.com/index/codex-flexible-pricing-for-teams - 6. We're creating a new satellite imagery map to help protect Brazil's forests. — https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/earth/satellite-imagery-brazilian-deforestation/

Stories & Sources - 1. OpenAI closes $122 billion funding round at $852 billion valuation — https://openai.com/index/accelerating-the-next-phase-ai - 2. Google adds Flex and Priority tiers to the Gemini API — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-flex-and-priority-inference/ - 3. NVIDIA optimizes Gemma 4 for local, agentic AI across devices — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/rtx-ai-garage-open-models-google-gemma-4/ - 4. Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, a lower-cost video generation model — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/veo-3-1-lite/ - 5. OpenAI adds pay-as-you-go Codex-only seats and lowers ChatGPT Business price — https://openai.com/index/codex-flexible-pricing-for-teams - 6. Gradient Labs deploys OpenAI models to give every bank customer an AI account manager — https://openai.com/index/gradient-labs

Stories & Sources - 1. Google upgrades real-time voice with a higher-quality Gemini audio model — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-flash-live/ - 2. Google rolls out Lyria 3 music models for developers — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/lyria-3-developers/ - 3. OpenAI explains its public Model Spec for intended model behavior — https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-the-model-spec - 4. OpenAI launches a Safety Bug Bounty focused on AI abuse and safety risks — https://openai.com/index/safety-bug-bounty - 5. TVS Motor scales multimodal agents with ElevenLabs, boosting leads and feedback speed — https://elevenlabs.io/blog/tvs-motor-multimodal-agents - 6. NVIDIA says AI's future is both open and proprietary and launches the Nemotron Coalition — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-future-open-and-proprietary/

Stories & Sources - 1. Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-flash-live/ - 2. Build with Lyria 3, our newest music generation model — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/lyria-3-developers/ - 3. How Autonomous AI Agents Become Secure by Design With NVIDIA OpenShell — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/secure-autonomous-ai-agents-openshell/ - 4. Inside our approach to the Model Spec — https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-the-model-spec - 5. Introducing the OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty program — https://openai.com/index/safety-bug-bounty - 6. Powering product discovery in ChatGPT — https://openai.com/index/powering-product-discovery-in-chatgpt

Stories & Sources - 1. Update on the OpenAI Foundation — https://openai.com/index/update-on-the-openai-foundation - 2. Powering product discovery in ChatGPT — https://openai.com/index/powering-product-discovery-in-chatgpt - 3. Build with Lyria 3, our newest music generation model — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/lyria-3-developers/ - 4. The Future of AI Is Open and Proprietary — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-future-open-and-proprietary/ - 5. Inside our approach to the Model Spec — https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-the-model-spec - 6. Introducing the OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty program — https://openai.com/index/safety-bug-bounty

Stories & Sources - 1. OpenAI Foundation to deploy at least $1 billion across life sciences, jobs, AI resilience and communities — https://openai.com/index/update-on-the-openai-foundation - 2. ChatGPT adds richer, visual product discovery via the Agentic Commerce Protocol — https://openai.com/index/powering-product-discovery-in-chatgpt - 3. Open-source teen safety policies released to work with gpt-oss-safeguard — https://openai.com/index/teen-safety-policies-gpt-oss-safeguard - 4. NVIDIA OpenShell secures autonomous agents with a sandboxed runtime — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/secure-autonomous-ai-agents-openshell/ - 5. Sora 2 and the Sora app emphasize safety in state-of-the-art video generation — https://openai.com/index/creating-with-sora-safely

Stories & Sources - 1. NVIDIA builds OpenShell, an open-source runtime to sandbox autonomous AI agents. — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/secure-autonomous-ai-agents-openshell/ - 2. OpenAI says Sora 2 and the Sora app include built-in safety protections for video generation. — https://openai.com/index/creating-with-sora-safely

Stories & Sources - 1. OpenAI to acquire Astral — https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-astral - 2. How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment — https://openai.com/index/how-we-monitor-internal-coding-agents-misalignment

Stories & Sources - 1. OpenAI to acquire Astral to expand Codex with popular Python tools — https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-astral - 2. How OpenAI monitors internal coding agents for misalignment — https://openai.com/index/how-we-monitor-internal-coding-agents-misalignment - 3. NVIDIA spotlights local agent PCs, Nemotron models and NemoClaw at GTC — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/rtx-ai-garage-gtc-2026-nemoclaw/ - 4. Google expands Personal Intelligence across Search, Gemini and Chrome in U.S. — https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/personal-intelligence-expansion/ - 5. Google and partners pledge $12.5M for open source security via Alpha‑Omega — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/ai-powered-open-source-security/

Stories & Sources - 1. OpenAI details GPT-5.4-powered monitoring for internal coding agents — https://openai.com/index/how-we-monitor-internal-coding-agents-misalignment - 2. OpenAI to acquire Astral to bolster Codex and Python tooling — https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-astral - 3. OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano for faster coding and subagents — https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4-mini-and-nano - 4. Google expands Personal Intelligence in Search and Gemini in the U.S. — https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/personal-intelligence-expansion/ - 5. Google and partners pledge $12.5M for open source security in AI era — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/ai-powered-open-source-security/ - 6. NVIDIA at GTC pushes local agent PCs, new Nemotron models and NemoClaw — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/rtx-ai-garage-gtc-2026-nemoclaw/

Stories & Sources - 1. OpenAI launches GPT‑5.4 mini and nano — https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4-mini-and-nano - 2. NVIDIA at GTC: local agent PCs, Nemotron open models, NemoClaw, and Unsloth Studio — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/rtx-ai-garage-gtc-2026-nemoclaw/ - 3. Google expands Personal Intelligence in the U.S. — https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/personal-intelligence-expansion/ - 4. Google and partners pledge $12.5M for open source security — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/ai-powered-open-source-security/ - 5. OpenAI Japan Teen Safety Blueprint — https://openai.com/index/japan-teen-safety-blueprint - 6. OpenAI: Americans use ChatGPT for wage info; WorkerBench introduced — https://openai.com/index/equipping-workers-with-insights-about-compensation

Stories & Sources - 1. OpenAI unveils GPT-5.4 mini and nano — https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4-mini-and-nano - 2. NVIDIA at GTC spotlights AI PCs, open models and NemoClaw — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/rtx-ai-garage-gtc-2026-nemoclaw/ - 3. Google expands Personal Intelligence across Search and Gemini — https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/personal-intelligence-expansion/ - 4. Google and partners invest in open source security via Alpha-Omega — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/ai-powered-open-source-security/ - 5. OpenAI research: 3 million daily ChatGPT queries on pay — https://openai.com/index/equipping-workers-with-insights-about-compensation - 6. Codex Security favors AI constraint reasoning over SAST — https://openai.com/index/why-codex-security-doesnt-include-sast

Stories & Sources - 1. Eleven v3 is Now Generally Available — https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-v3-is-now-generally-available - 2. Introducing Scribe v2 Realtime — https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-scribe-v2-realtime - 3. Introducing ElevenLabs Agents — https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-elevenlabs-agents - 4. Introducing ElevenLabs Image & Video — https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-elevenlabs-image-and-video - 5. ElevenLabs and Deloitte partner to transform customer experience — https://elevenlabs.io/blog/elevenlabs-and-deloitte-partner - 6. Introducing Agent Workflows — https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-agent-workflows

Stories & Sources - 1. Google opens Canvas in AI Mode to everyone in the U.S. in English — https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/ai-mode-canvas-writing-coding/

Stories & Sources - 1. AMD names Ariel Kelman as Chief Marketing Officer — https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1277/amd-hires-ariel-kelman-as-chief-marketing-officer - 2. Google and YouTube roll out Safer Internet Day updates for kids and families — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/safer-internet-day-2026-kids-teens/

Stories & Sources - 1. TVS Motor deploys multimodal AI agents across 25+ countries using ElevenLabs' platform — https://elevenlabs.io/blog/tvs-motor-multimodal-agents

Stories & Sources - 1. Family used ChatGPT to prepare for critical cancer treatment decisions — https://openai.com/index/navigating-health-questions - 2. ElevenLabs launches Eleven v3 (alpha) — https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-v3 - 3. ElevenLabs raises $500M Series D at an $11B valuation — https://elevenlabs.io/blog/series-d - 4. The latest AI news we announced in January — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/google-ai-updates-january-2026/ - 5. Nemotron Labs: How AI Agents Are Turning Documents Into Real-Time Business Intelligence — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-agents-intelligent-document-processing/ - 6. Unlocking the Codex harness: how we built the App Server — https://openai.com/index/unlocking-the-codex-harness

Stories & Sources - 1. SpaceX acquires xAI to build orbital AI data centers — https://reallysimpleai.blogspot.com/2026/02/spacex-acquires-xai-to-build-orbital-ai.html

Stories & Sources - 1. Amazon expands Nova family and launches Nova Forge and Nova Act — https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-agentic-ai-amazon-bedrock-nova-models - 2. AWS unveils frontier agents to act like members of development teams — https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazon-ai-frontier-agents-autonomous-kiro - 3. AgentCore adds Policy, Evaluations, and episodic Memory — https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-amazon-bedrock-agent-core-ai-agents - 4. Trainium3 UltraServers now available for faster, lower-cost AI training — https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/trainium-3-ultraserver-faster-ai-training-lower-cost - 5. AWS AI Factories bring dedicated AWS AI infrastructure into customer data centers — https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-data-centers-ai-factories - 6. Amazon simplifies model customization with RFT in Bedrock and SageMaker AI serverless tools — https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazon-sagemaker-ai-amazon-bedrock-aws-ai-agents

Stories & Sources - 1. OpenClaw: the open-source AI assistant that runs on your computer. — https://reallysimpleai.blogspot.com/2026/02/openclaw-open-source-ai-assistant-that.html

Stories & Sources - 1. Study finds AI assistance can reduce immediate coding mastery despite small speed gains — https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills Notes: This report describes a randomized controlled trial of 52 participants, immediate quiz results (AI group 50% vs hand-coding 67%), interaction patterns, and qualitative findings. Read the full paper for details.

Stories & Sources - 1. Amazon names Peter DeSantis to lead new AI, silicon and quantum organization; Pieter Abbeel to lead frontier model research; Rohit Prasad to depart — https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/andy-jassy-peter-desantis-amazon-leadership-update - 2. Amazon launches Nova 2 family, Nova Forge for custom frontier models, and Nova Act for reliable browser agents — https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-agentic-ai-amazon-bedrock-nova-models - 3. AWS unveils frontier agents — Kiro, AWS Security Agent, and AWS DevOps Agent — to act as autonomous team members — https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazon-ai-frontier-agents-autonomous-kiro - 4. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds Policy controls, Evaluations, and episodic Memory for safer, smarter agents — https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-amazon-bedrock-agent-core-ai-agents - 5. Trainium3 UltraServers now generally available, offering big gains in performance and efficiency — https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/trainium-3-ultraserver-faster-ai-training-lower-cost - 6. AWS AI Factories bring NVIDIA and Trainium infrastructure into customer data centers, with dedicated deployments and an AI Zone partnership — https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-data-centers-ai-factories

Stories & Sources - 1. OpenAI unveils EU Economic Blueprint 2.0 to boost adoption and skills — https://openai.com/index/the-next-chapter-for-ai-in-the-eu - 2. Revolut selects ElevenLabs Agents to bolster voice customer support — https://elevenlabs.io/blog/revolut - 3. OpenAI outlines safeguards against URL-based data exfiltration — https://openai.com/index/ai-agent-link-safety - 4. NVIDIA pushes to reauthorize the National Quantum Initiative — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/national-quantum-initiative/ - 5. OpenAI launches EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant to study AI's effects on young people — https://openai.com/index/emea-youth-and-wellbeing-grant

Stories & Sources - 1. Google DeepMind's 'Dear Upstairs Neighbors' previews at Sundance — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/dear-upstairs-neighbors/ - 2. NVIDIA unveils Earth-2 open models for AI weather — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-earth-2-open-models/

Stories & Sources - 1. Unrolling the Codex agent loop — https://openai.com/index/unrolling-the-codex-agent-loop

Stories & Sources - 1. Mercedes‑Benz CLA named Euro NCAP Best Performer of 2025, powered by NVIDIA DRIVE AV — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/drive-av-mercedes-benz-cla-euro-ncap-safety-award/ - 2. Google rolls out Personal Intelligence to AI Mode in Search for Pro and Ultra subscribers — https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/personal-intelligence-ai-mode-search/ - 3. NVIDIA guides creators to run ComfyUI and new models locally on RTX PCs — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/rtx-ai-garage-comfyui-tutorial/ - 4. Survey: Financial services firms increase AI use, favor open source and report clear ROI — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-in-financial-services-survey-2026/ - 5. GeForce NOW adds flight control support and new cloud games — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/geforce-now-thursday-flight-controls/ - 6. OpenAI details PostgreSQL scaling to millions of queries per second — https://openai.com/index/scaling-postgresql

Stories & Sources - 1. Horizon 1000: Advancing AI for primary healthcare — https://openai.com/index/horizon-1000 - 2. How countries can end the capability overhang — https://openai.com/index/how-countries-can-end-the-capability-overhang - 3. Stargate Community — https://openai.com/index/stargate-community - 4. Building a community-led future for AI in film with Sundance Institute — https://blog.google/company-news/outreach-and-initiatives/google-org/sundance-institute-ai-education/ - 5. AMD Appoints KC McClure to Board of Directors — https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1275/amd-appoints-kc-mcclure-to-board-of-directors

Stories & Sources - 1. Eleven Labs debuts Eleven v3 (alpha), a very expressive TTS research preview — https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-v3 - 2. Conversational AI is now ElevenLabs Agents; the platform adds workflow and testing tools — https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-elevenlabs-agents - 3. OpenAI disputes Elon Musk's court filing, cites Brockman journal entries and negotiation timeline — https://openai.com/index/the-truth-elon-left-out

Stories & Sources - 1. How Nano Banana got its name — https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/gemini/how-nano-banana-got-its-name/

Stories & Sources - 1. OpenAI partners with Cerebras to add 750MW of low-latency compute — https://openai.com/index/cerebras-partnership - 2. Kaggle launches Community Benchmarks for community-driven AI evaluation — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/kaggle-community-benchmarks/ - 3. Deutsche Telekom partners with ElevenLabs to deploy AI voice agents in customer service — https://elevenlabs.io/blog/deutsche-telekom-and-elevenlabs-announce-partnership

Stories & Sources - 1. NVIDIA and Lilly unveil AI co-innovation lab to accelerate drug discovery — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/jpmorgan-healthcare-nvidia-lilly/ - 2. TCS and AMD launch strategic collaboration to drive enterprise AI at scale — https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1274/tcs-and-amd-announce-strategic-collaboration-to-drive-ai-adoption-at-scale - 3. Google updates Veo 3.1: better ingredients-to-video, vertical outputs and 4K upscaling — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/veo-3-1-ingredients-to-video/ - 4. Japanese firm Zenken boosts sales and translation with ChatGPT Enterprise — https://openai.com/index/zenken

Stories & Sources - 1. OpenAI and SoftBank Group invest $500M each in SB Energy; SB Energy to build OpenAI's 1.2 GW Milam County data center — https://openai.com/index/stargate-sb-energy-partnership - 2. NVIDIA releases MAIW and Retail Catalog Enrichment blueprints to modernize warehouse and product workflows — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/multi-agent-intelligent-warehouse-and-catalog-enrichment-blueprints/ - 3. Datadog deploys Codex for system-level code review; finds AI would have prevented roughly 22% of examined incidents — https://openai.com/index/datadog

Stories & Sources - 1. OpenAI launches GPT-5.2-Codex, a more capable coding model — https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex - 2. OpenAI publishes chain-of-thought monitorability framework and evaluation suite — https://openai.com/index/evaluating-chain-of-thought-monitorability - 3. NVIDIA joins DOE Genesis Mission to boost U.S. AI infrastructure and R&D — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-us-government-to-boost-ai-infrastructure-and-rd-investments/ - 4. NVIDIA releases RTX PRO 5000 72GB Blackwell GPU for desktop AI workflows — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/rtx-pro-5000-72gb-blackwell-gpu/ - 5. Google adds AI-generated video verification to the Gemini app — https://blog.google/technology/ai/verify-google-ai-videos-gemini-app/ - 6. ElevenLabs unveils Eleven v3 (alpha) — a more expressive TTS model — https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-v3

Stories & Sources - 1. OpenAI and Deutsche Telekom to bring multilingual AI to millions across Europe — https://openai.com/index/deutsche-telekom-collaboration Not financial advice...

Stories & Sources - 1. OpenAI launches OpenAI for Australia to build sovereign AI infrastructure — https://openai.com/global-affairs/openai-for-australia - 2. NVIDIA discounts Jetson kits; real-world robotics and edge AI projects highlighted — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/jetson-edge-ai-holiday-2025/ Not financial advice.