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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged Nvidia to name an outsider as its next CEO and sought answers about its compliance culture within 10 days, a narrower recommendation than the company’s announced search.

OATs, a Carnegie Mellon research prototype, turns live readings from sensor-equipped everyday objects into expressive avatar cues instead of raw measurements.

South Korea’s top scorer in the national tax-accountant exam admitted using a miniature camera, a smartphone and generative AI to cheat, prompting a police investigation into the qualification test.

Italy’s privacy regulator ordered Meta to obtain separate consent and keep a Facebook Android gallery-suggestion feature off by default after imposing an €805 million fine.

Perplexity released Decider v1.3 and Decider Flash v1.3, adding a locate function that returns matching text spans while retaining the models’ structured decision outputs.

Cohere has added outside open-model families to Model Vault, with a broader standard catalog across three regions and a smaller encrypted catalog currently limited to the United States.

Octen expanded its search service for AI agents, adding the Pulse page-finding API and image search alongside a $20 monthly unlimited Web Search plan for personal accounts.

World Labs released Frameboy, a research preview that streams frames from an optimized Atlas model on cloud GPUs to a browser for interactive exploration.