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Metaview's Insight Partners-led Series C brings its total funding to $110 million as it prepares a screening agent, a New York office and a larger team.

Databricks launched ai_decide in beta, adding structured decisions over governed data through SQL and a REST API, with regional and compute limits.

Cohere's RCP-nDCG@10 combines rubric judgments, pairwise preferences and cross-query calibration to address gaps in conventional relevance labels.

An Apple-published study found that methods for conditioning language models can improve control while degrading fluency, with activation steering behaving differently in base and instruction-tuned models.

Apple researchers introduced SCLATE, a shared event-scheduling substrate for long-horizon agent benchmarks and post-training.

Hugging Face has launched an automated leaderboard comparing open text-to-speech models across languages, voice cloning, throughput and streaming latency, but warns that the scores do not measure naturalness or listener preference.

AMD's new Ross assistant connects compatible AI clients and models to Vivado and Vitis HLS through Model Context Protocol servers.

OpenAI says it stopped a campaign aimed at extracting protected model reasoning, linking a core cluster to people associated with Moonshot AI while saying databases and stored chats were not directly accessed.