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Pentagon official overseeing military AI sold millions worth of stock in AI firm

Exclusive: financial disclosures from Emil Michael – who also reaped millions from xAI stock earlier this year – show he sold his Perplexity stock for up to $25m The top Pentagon official overseeing military artificial intelligence policy, who reaped profits earlier this year of up to $24m selling his private investment in Elon Musk’s AI company, has now sold his holdings in another AI company…

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Pentagon official overseeing military AI sold millions worth of stock in AI firm

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Fei-Fei Li's World Labs unveils Atlas, a multimodal world model that generates image/video frames with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs them in 3D (World Labs)

World models generate, reconstruct, and simulate any possible world. They understand how worlds appear, behave …

  • World Labs unveils Atlas, a multimodal world model on September 1, 2026.
  • Atlas generates image/video frames with pixel-perfect camera control and 3D reconstruction.
  • Model excels at reconstructing real-world spaces from sparse input images.

·worldlabs.ai

Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS

Claude Fable 5.1 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. This post covers Claude Fable 5.1's improvements, the Enterprise Frontier Safeguards for keeping your data in a cloud…

  • Claude Fable 5.1 released on AWS
  • Zero data retention (ZDR) option available
  • Enterprise Frontier Safeguards partnership

·aws.amazon.com

Health Tech meets AI giants

In August, Google announced that Gemini users can now book appointments with Zocdoc. The news came not long after Solv said it’s partnering with Amazon ...

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