AllSpark releases Iris open-weight web-search agents
Chinese lab AllSpark released Iris-mini and Iris-pro, open-weight web-search agents based on Qwen-series models, with a 256,000-token context window. The team also released an Iris Harness containing the agent loop, tools, contex...
Microsoft details passkey-themed cloud-account phishing campaigns
Microsoft disclosed two campaigns that used third-party email delivery infrastructure and passkey-themed social engineering against enterprise accounts. In the cloud intrusions, attackers contacted employees by phone or message, d...
ORNL demonstrates AI-guided targeting for atomic-force microscopy
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed SimuScan, an AI framework for atomic-force microscopy that uses synthetic training images to identify nanoscale features and direct follow-up scans. In demonstrations involvi...
Researchers observe optical Magnus effect with trapped ion
An international team at the Paul Scherrer Institute experimentally observed the optical Magnus effect by moving a trapped calcium ion through a tightly focused laser beam. The researchers found that the strongest laser-ion inter...
ASI deploys autonomous tractor fleet with U.S. Sugar
Autonomous Solutions Inc., U.S. Sugar and Everglades Equipment Group said they deployed what they describe as the largest autonomous vehicle fleet in U.S. sugarcane farming across hundreds of thousands of acres in South Florida. ...
Xi proposes China-led open-source AI group for BRICS
Xi Jinping proposed a China-led open-source AI community at the BRICS summit and invited members to join the World AI Cooperation Organization, according to Bloomberg reporting cited by The Next Web. Xi said the initiative would s...


