AI Weekly News Update: 03/10/2025

Manus is a general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions. It excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.

Google is launching a new “AI Mode” experimental feature in Search that looks to take on Perplexity AI and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search

Contextual AI launches its Grounded Language Model (GLM) that achieves 88% factual accuracy, outperforming major competitors while minimizing hallucinations for enterprise applications.

Amazon.com has formed a new group focused on agentic artificial intelligence to help users and customers automate more of their lives, according to an internal email viewed by Reuters on Tuesday.

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On Thursday French large language model (LLM) developer Mistral launched a new API for developers who handle complex PDF documents. Mistral OCR is an

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Ataraxis AI has raised a $20.4 million Series A to make cancer treatment more personalized.

Artificial intelligence and defense were the key buzz words of the week in the venture world. Three startups in those sectors raised massive rounds, however, there were big rounds elsewhere too — including biotech, healthcare and robotics.

The Biden administration’s A.I. adviser Ben Buchanan discusses how the U.S. government is preparing for artificial general intelligence — and all the challenges that remain.

In a policy paper published Wednesday, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks said Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt challenges the idea, championed by several American policy and industry leaders in recent months, that a government-backed program pursuing AGI is the best way to compete with China.

Just over two months into 2025, the number of pending AI bills in the U.S. has grown to 781, according to an online tracking tool.

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Richard Sutton won this year’s Turing Award for his work in reinforcement learning with longtime collaborator Andrew Barto. IBM Think sat down with Sutton to unpack where reinforcement learning will take us next.