Thursday, June 25, 2026
The latest in artificial intelligence, from labs to industry
As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics.
Baidu open-sourced Unlimited OCR, a 3B-parameter MoE model that parses dozens of document pages in a single forward pass. Its Reference Sliding Window Attention (R-SWA) holds the KV cache constant, so memory and latency stay flat as output grows. It scores 93.23 on OmniDocBench v
Google’s Search history update stores media uploads from your interactions, like images used in reverse image searches, for training its AI models.
Indie movie fans are upset about Google DeepMind’s $75 million investment in the studio, which comes as AI companies are deepening their influence in Hollywood.
Gradium released two real-time speech translation models, stt-translate and s2s-translate, covering English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese across 20 language pairs. The models collapse the standard three-model cascade into two, pairing single-pass transcription-and-tran
