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Airbnb says its upcoming AI agent will help travelers plan trips, compare options, manage bookings, and get assistance throughout their stay. Airbnb has teased its plans to build its own AI travel agent before, but on Thursday the company announced that the new AI feature will launch in the first half of 2027.
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Google Research built an AI that spots signs of high blood pressure using only the pulse and motion sensors in a standard smartwatch, no cuff needed. In a 196-person study, its 65.8 percent detection rate beat the traditional in-office measurement.
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If acceleration compounds, the naive extrapolation implies superintelligence within a year This post discusses a public METR report on AI R&D acceleration at Anthropic. I did not work on this project or see the unredacted report.
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Ricursive Intelligence is releasing Ripple-65B Preview, a 65-billion-parameter open-weight language model that the company says achieves the top score among open-source U.S. models on the TerminalBench 2.1 coding benchmark at a total R&D cost of $32 million. On other benchmarks, however, Ripple falls behind the likewise newly released western open model Inkling 2 Small.
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Meta's Muse agents continue to get new features and integrations. Spaces promises to be a new way to interact with the AI helpers.