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OpenAI Launches GPT-Rosalind for Life Sciences Research, Targets Drug Discovery Workflows
The model is named after Rosalind Franklin, whose work contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure.
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After Sora, Lyra 2.0 Shows Where AI Video is Headed Next
AI video is moving beyond clips to persistent, explorable environments with real-world simulation potential.
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Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7 AI Model, Calls It Less Advanced Than Claude Mythos
Anthropic, on Thursday, released another major update to its Opus model, dubbed Claude Opus 4.7. The new artificial intelligence (AI) model comes just days after the San Francisco-based startup released Claude Mythos, a model which is so capable at cybersecurity tasks that the company has limited its access. Opus 4.7 is built using the same architecture but has been intentionally kept less advanced to ensure that it cannot be used to carry out cyberattacks. Compared to the older Opus model, the latest iteration also brings improvements across coding and vision-related tasks.
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OpenAI Upgrades Codex With Computer Use, Image Generation Capabilities
OpenAI, on Thursday, released a major update to Codex, its coding-focused platform for desktop. The new update brings computer use, image generation, native access to the web, and other personalisation tools to users, significantly upgrading the usability of the tool. The new features are first arriving on macOS and will be rolled out to Windows and the integrated development environment (IDE) soon. Interestingly, the capability arrived the same day Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, which also focuses on bringing improvements to software engineering.
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Firstsource Unveils Kairos to Bridge AI-to-Execution Gap
The new OS claims to turn AI ambition into measurable results, tackling a 540-basis-point performance gap in enterprises.
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The Omnichannel Illusion: How Retail Media Networks Must Rethink Measurement
Retail media’s growth surpasses measurement, and only incrementality can reveal its true impact and eliminate inflated attribution.
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Wipro Won Big Deals, But Execution Gap Can’t Be Overlooked Anymore
Strong bookings and AI-led demand are yet to translate into growth as ramp-up delays weigh on Wipro’s outlook.
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Emergent CEO Doesn’t See Lovable, Replit as Competition
Emergent is also building a new agent that will be able to run autonomously for hours without any instructions.
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Sasken Opens Centre in Hyderabad, Deepens Work with Chip Partners
The company plans to hire over 100 engineers and expand its digital services and global client base.
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AI Is Making Cheaper MRI Machines Look Premium
AI is improving 1.5 Tesla MRI output, prompting hospitals to rethink expensive 3 Tesla upgrades and rebalance cost, access, and diagnostic quality.
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Upscale AI in talks to raise at $2B valuation, says report
AI infrastructure companyUpscale AIis reportedly in talks to nab its third funding round since launching just seven months ago,according to Bloomberg. This latest round — which aims to raise around $180 million to $200 million — would value the company at about $2 billion. The company announced a $200 million Series A in January and a$100 million seed roundin September, when it first launched. Investors in the company include Tiger Global Management, Xora Innovation, and Premji Invest. Notably, Upscale AI has yet to release a product. However, it’s said to focus on building custom chips and on the infrastructure to enable them to communicate effectively. The company is betting on a full-stack solution and open standards as being the future of scalable AI infrastructure. The rumored valuation and raise are part of the startup playbook in this age of AI, where companies grow fast and valuations grow faster, but the hope for the next big thing outpaces it all.
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Luma launches AI-powered production studio with faith-focused Wonder Project
AI video generation startup Luma has launched Innovative Dreams, a production company built in partnership with Wonder Project, a streaming service that produces religious films and TV on Amazon Prime. The tie-up’s first show will be called “The Old Stories: Moses,” starring British actor Ben Kingsley and set to launch this spring on Prime Video. “Innovative Dreams is a production services company where seasoned filmmakers from director Jon Erwin’s team and Luma’s creative technologists work with great studios and filmmakers to help them realize ambitious ideas,” Luma said Thursday in asocial media post. The company envisages creative teams collaborating in real time with Luma Agents to make changes to sets, props, and lighting, as well as bring in footage of human actors. Luma Agents are the company’srecently launched toolsdesigned to handle end-to-end creative work across text, image, video, and audio. “This is a significant improvement over the current virtual production and performance capture processes where things come together only in post,” Luma’s post said. “This is the leverage of AI — not just faster or cheaper, but better than what came before.” Luma isn’t the only startup to move from tooling to production. AI startup Higgsfield last week launched anoriginal series, starting with a 10-minute sci-fi episode, and London-based creative studioWonder Studiosis working on a documentary with Campfire Studios. The launch comes the same week that competitor Runway’s co-founder and co-CEOCristóbal Valenzuela saidfilm studios should take the $100 million they spend on a single film and instead use AI to produce 50 films in order to increase their chances of making a blockbuster. Luma founder and CEO Amit Jain has made a similar case, telling TechCrunch that Hollywood’s soaring production costs have made filmmaking increasingly constrained. Generative AI, he argues, could make filmmaking faster, cheaper, and more efficient without sacrificing quality. That thinking underpins Luma’s new partnership with Wonder Project. Wonder Project, launched in 2023, is run by director Jon Erwin and former Netflix executive Kelly Hoogstraten with the goal of serving the faith and values audience globally. Their first project, “House of David,” a Biblical drama series about the life of King David, was released on Amazon Prime in 2025. It’s unclear whether Innovative Dreams will focus solely on religious and faith-based content or expand beyond Wonder’s remit. TechCrunch has reached out for clarification. In avideopromoting the partnership, Erwin said Innovative Dreams will use a new “real-time hybrid filmmaking” process that combines performance capture (as in “Avatar”) and virtual production (as in “The Mandalorian”), done live and more cheaply using Luma’s tools. Performance capture is a technique where actors perform in a green-screen environment wearing suits and facial markers so their movements and expressions can be digitally captured and turned into animated characters. Virtual production involves actors performing on set, often in front of massive LED screens instead of a green screen while real-time game-engine graphics create the environment around them, blending the physical and digital worlds during the shoot. Luma’s tools, Erwin said, allow them to film a human actor anywhere and then transport that to a photorealistic scene, or go even further by generating a new face so it looks like a completely different person but still maps onto the actor’s movements and facial expressions.
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