OpenAI Releases GPT-5 with Advanced Capabilities
OpenAI has launched GPT-5, its most advanced AI model to date, featuring PhD-level reasoning abilities, a 272,000-token context window, and 'vibe coding' for generating software through simple text prompts. This release marks a significant step toward artificial general intelligence and is now available to free ChatGPT users.
Rakuten Launches AI Agent to Enhance User Experience
Rakuten has introduced Rakuten AI, an AI agent designed to enhance user experiences and streamline interactions across its ecosystem, including shopping, fintech, travel, and entertainment. The initial rollout integrates Rakuten AI into Rakuten Link, a communication app for Rakuten Mobile subscribers, and offers a web app in beta.
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GR00T N1: The First Open-Source General-Purpose Humanoid Robot Foundation Model
NVIDIA and collaborators have introduced GR00T N1, the first open-source foundation model for general-purpose humanoid robots. This model features a dual-system architecture combining vision-language processing with diffusion transformers, enabling end-to-end training from visual inputs to fluid motion outputs. GR00T N1 marks a significant advancement in robotics, facilitating the development of versatile humanoid robots capable of complex tasks.
TxAgent: AI Agent Achieves 92.1% Accuracy in Drug Interaction Analysis
A team led by Gao et al. has developed TxAgent, an AI agent designed for therapeutic reasoning that integrates 211 medical tools. TxAgent demonstrates multi-step reasoning and real-time biomedical knowledge retrieval, achieving a 92.1% accuracy rate in drug interaction analysis and personalized treatment recommendations. This breakthrough represents a significant step forward in precision medicine, offering AI-driven solutions for complex medical decision-making.
Salesforce to Acquire Informatica in $8 Billion Deal
Salesforce has announced its intention to acquire cloud data management company Informatica in an all-equity deal valued at $8 billion. This strategic move aims to bolster Salesforce's data infrastructure, enhancing its capabilities in developing and deploying agentic AI solutions across enterprises. Marc Benioff, Chair and CEO of Salesforce, stated that the acquisition will create the most comprehensive, agent-ready data platform in the industry.
OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive’s AI Hardware Startup io Products for $6.4 Billion
OpenAI has acquired io Products, the AI hardware startup co-founded by former Apple design chief Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in a $6.4 billion all-equity deal. This acquisition marks OpenAI's significant entry into the AI-enabled consumer hardware market, signaling a strategic expansion beyond software into hardware solutions.