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The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenAI.

The idea behind OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program is to give trusted defenders better models so they can report bugs and vulnerabilities to companies, with the aim of getting flaws patched faster.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight.…

arXiv:2608.16890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical trial programming -- transforming study protocols into analysis-ready datasets under CDISC standards -- is a bottleneck in regulatory submissions, yet LLM-based code generation fails catastrophically on this task: across 11 single-shot attempts with five frontier models, none produces a valid subject-level analysis dataset. We introduce GxP-Agent, a multi-agent system that encodes regulatory process ordering as a directed acyclic graph (DAG), decomposing monolithic dataset generation into 15 domain-specific nodes executed by worker agents with pharmaverse skill context, validation gates, and conditional retry. On CDISC-Bench, a new execution-based benchmark built from the FDA pilot submission CDISCPilot01 (254 subjects, 49 ground-truth ADSL variables), GxP-Agent with Claude Sonnet 4.6 achieves 100% structural match (49/49 variables, 254 correct records) across three independent runs, compared to 59.2% for the best retrieval-augmented baseline and 0% for all single-agent and flat multi-agent approaches. The DAG topology also enables weaker models: GPT-4.1 achieves 59.2% mean structural match under the same DAG, where it scores

arXiv:2608.16891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems request tool actions that can modify files, send messages, launch jobs, or change workflow state. This shifts the safety problem from harmful text generation to harmful operational side effects. Prompt-level governance can shape model behavior, but it does not create an execution boundary. We introduce Aegis, a runtime governance system that treats model outputs as action proposals and mediates them through a trusted decision layer before tool execution. The model proposes; the trusted runtime decides. Aegis evaluates proposals against active policy state, resolves provenance server-side, fails closed under uncertainty, and routes selected cases through Senate-style settlement, a quorum- based non-unilateral authorization path. We evaluate Aegis on a repeated sandbox corpus spanning five run families, 42 tasks, three conditions, and ten repeats per family. Across 6,300 rows, prompt-policy conditioning produced 79 risky comparator-path leakage rows. Across 2,100 Aegis-governed rows, the system recorded zero governed mock-tool applications and zero governed risky side-effect completions. All 1,832 Aegis-attempted gove

Microsoft Advertising is rolling out AI Max globally, bringing expanded Search matching, text customization, URL expansion and new advertiser controls to Search campaigns. The post Microsoft Advertising Rolls Out AI Max Globally appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google's generative UI, which builds custom visual layouts and interactive tools, has started reaching AI Overviews after launching in AI Mode last year. The post Google Expands Generative UI Beyond AI Mode Into AI Overviews appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

AI doesn't recommend products, it recommends decisions. A SaaS case study shows why missing evidence, not weak authority, causes exclusion from AI recommendations. The post Decision Coverage: Why AI Recommends Some Brands And Not Others appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Use case pipeline being progressed, including for ranking CVs.

How federal government is building AI around trust.

How state governments are making AI prove itself.