OpenAI reached an agreement with the US Department of Defense that allowed the military to use its technologies in classified settings and published a limited excerpt stating protections against use for autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance.
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Google DeepMind released a preview of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, describing it as the fastest and cheapest model in the Gemini 3 series and more capable than its predecessor, while reports said output costs had more than tripled.
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UX Collective published articles that explained teleoperation as a design layer to accelerate large-scale robotics and called for UX and design practitioners to reclaim the practice to address AI-related harms.