Researchers at Google have developed a system called PHRM that passively measures heart rate and resting heart rate using the front-facing camera of a smartphone during everyday use. In a study published in Nature, the system achieved an accuracy of less than 10% mean absolute percentage error compared to ECG, and less than 5 bpm error for daily resting heart rate compared to a wearable. The system was tested on a diverse dataset of over 350,000 video clips from nearly 700 participants, ensuring balanced representation across skin tones. PHRM outperformed 15 leading remote photoplethysmography models and is the only model to meet accuracy standards for all skin tones in real-world conditions.

The era of flat-rate AI coding pricing is ending as Cursor reduces Teams pricing by 20%, introduces a Premium tier with five times usage, and adds enterprise governance features including spend alerts, budgets, and model access controls. This follows GitHub's shift to token-based billing and the formation of the Tokenomics Foundation to standardize AI token economics.

Enterprises are beginning to question the actual return on their AI investments, sparking a broad discussion on the economic benefits of AI projects.

claude-bridge is a bridge tool that replaces common claude -p automation by launching interactive Claude Code sessions inside tmux, sending prompts via tmux, capturing transcripts, formatting replies, and exiting at turn end. It supports print mode, streaming, JSON Schema validation, and aims to be a drop-in replacement for claude -p in shell scripts.

Nexus is a local-first open-source tool that lets AI agents (like Claude Code) query and manipulate local spreadsheets (CSV, XLSX, SQLite, Google Sheets) without uploading data to the cloud. It exposes data via MCP protocol, supports non-destructive derivations (views, branches, snapshots), and includes an optional semantic reading layer called Iris.

NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety, a unified model combining multimodal input, multilingual coverage, custom enterprise policy enforcement, and auditable reasoning for content safety. Built on Google Gemma 3 4B IT and fine-tuned with LoRA, it supports explicit training in 12 languages with zero-shot generalization to ~140 languages. New features include custom policy enforcement via natural language specifications and a THINK mode for auditable step-by-step reasoning. The model achieves ~85% average accuracy across multiple multilingual and multimodal safety benchmarks while maintaining a compact 4B-parameter size and low latency. NVIDIA also releases a safety dataset with multimodal, multilingual safety reasoning traces.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says bot traffic now outpaces human traffic on the internet, years ahead of his late 2027 forecast. He blames AI agents for the surge, concluding that the web's future is "pay to crawl."

The systems, powered by Cosmos 3, are designed to accelerate development of autonomous vehicles, robots and vision AI systems.

Telecommunications operators face mounting pressure on customer experience, network operations, and cybersecurity. The Data + AI Summit 2026 (June 15-18, San Francisco) features a Telecommunications Industry Experience with forums, breakouts, and demos on AI-driven churn prevention, autonomous network operations, and fraud detection.

Prime Minister Mark Carney launched 'AI for All,' Canada's national AI strategy aiming to add $200 billion in economic growth and create 250,000 AI-related jobs over five years. The strategy focuses on building trust, creating opportunities, and reinforcing sovereignty through legislation, AI literacy, sovereign compute infrastructure, and international partnerships.

Moss is an experimental programming language for long-lived software projects where humans and AI agents collaborate. Created by Codex and Fujo930, it is at version 0.2.0 with self-hosting sketches.

In a game called 'Four Bridges', where one AI knows which room is deadly and others don't, lying offers a slight mathematical advantage (0.23-0.30 apples). However, the most honest model, Grok 4.20, achieved the highest average score (1.91) and highest group survival rate (59%). GPT-5.5, with the highest deception rate (90%), had the lowest score (1.78) and survival (24%). The experiment highlights differences in AI moral decision-making and the potential collective benefits of honesty.

Supabase, a database startup, raised $500 million at a $10.5 billion valuation, driven by the surge in AI-assisted coding and vibe-coding. The company provides backend infrastructure for AI app builders, competing with MongoDB and Amazon Aurora.

Meta launches an AI agent tool for small businesses, marking its expansion from consumer to enterprise markets.

An overview of current AI browser automation tools and their capabilities.

LangGraph provides built-in primitives for retries, timeouts, and error handling to build resilient AI agents. The post explains how to use RetryPolicy, TimeoutPolicy, and error_handler, and demonstrates the SAGA pattern for multi-step workflows with side effects.

The article highlights a resurgence in native Mac app development, driven by AI-assisted programming. Indie developers and even non-programmers are building Mac-native apps, reversing a decade-long iOS-centric trend. This revival is seen as crucial for the future of the Mac platform, with Jason Snell himself joining the movement.

Agent Arena is a novel evaluation framework for AI agents that uses causal tracing on real-world user interactions to generate an interpretable leaderboard. The article details its methodology, five key signals (confirmed success, praise vs. complaint, steerability, bash recovery, tool hallucination), extensive usage data (task distribution, tool calls, lines of code), and examples of high-complexity tasks.

Meta launched Business Agent to automate conversational commerce workflows in its messaging apps, enabling retailers to execute transactions and handle support tickets without human intervention. The native AI agent integrates deeply with Instagram, Messenger, and soon WhatsApp, placing agentic AI at the core of social commerce.

Looquee is an AI-powered copilot designed to assist students with college applications, providing guidance and streamlining the process.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, an open large language model with 550B total parameters and 55B active parameters, is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. It offers 5x faster inference and up to 30% lower cost for agentic AI workloads, with a hybrid Transformer-Mamba MoE architecture and million-token context window.

PM says Britons are ‘reasonable, tolerant people’ and backs MP’s legal action against Grok firm over fake sexualised images.

ChatGPT's updated "Dreaming" memory system now builds coherent user profiles from conversations instead of saving scattered bullet points. OpenAI says the success rate for keeping information current jumped from 52.2 percent last year to 75.1 percent.

Canada's 'AI for All' strategy aims to translate AI research leadership into broad benefits, focusing on protecting Canadians, empowering skills, driving adoption, building sovereign infrastructure, scaling companies, and trusted partnerships, with 2031 goals of 250,000 jobs, 75% adoption, and nearly $200 billion economic boost.

After this story was published Google's spokesperson reached out and asked us to publish a slightly different version of that statement. The new statement no longer stated that "it's critical that we maintain humans in the loop."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged during an interview that AI token costs have become a major concern for clients, as companies overspend and seek efficiency. Despite growing usage, cost reductions are needed to sustain the trend.

A pricing comparison of 7 chatbot platforms highlighting that cost differences stem from AI pricing models (per-resolution, flat add-on, or bring-your-own-key) rather than features. Each tool is analyzed with current prices, AI billing methods, and best-fit scenarios, with recommendations by team size.

An audit of the DeepSWE benchmark reveals that deepseek-v4-pro's reported results (8% solve rate, $4.22 avg cost) are invalid due to multiple issues: cost inflated ~5x by ignoring cache pricing, all three reported failures were solved with the same model, OpenRouter privacy settings silently block DeepSeek, and the model received no reasoning/effort tuning unlike competitors.

DJ Patil's listening tour reveals a broken promise in AI, with students and workers feeling terrified. He proposes community makerspaces and emphasizes organizational capacity as the bottleneck. Data infrastructure is a competitive advantage, enabling companies like Devoted Health to leverage AI quickly.

Asana launched Dash, an AI assistant, and upgraded AI teammates to rebrand its work management platform as an operating system for human-agent teams. Dash acts as a personal AI chief of staff, automatically capturing follow-ups from meetings, Slack, and email into trackable tasks. AI teammates now feature expanded skills, integrations, and support for third-party tools via StackAI. Asana emphasizes its harness over models, leveraging its Work Graph. Early customers like FedEx and COS reported significant productivity gains.