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The UK government has launched the AI Biosecurity Lab, which it says is the world's first dedicated AI biosecurity organization. The lab will focus on tackling emerging biological threats as part of the country's National AI Biosecurity Initiative.

Policy • Tech.eu

Apple is adding an AI assistant to Pages, Keynote, and Numbers, built on models from Apple and OpenAI. The assistant can understand a document's context to design and animate slides in Keynote and draft and restructure content in Pages.

Product Launch • The Verge AI

Opera introduced a new web standard called WebAI, designed to let users deploy AI locally in their browser across a variety of AI models.

Product Launch • TechCrunch AI

Artificial Analysis launched Intelligence Index v5, adding two new coding and science benchmarks and three upgrades, with most of the index now built on private datasets. Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at a score of 58, according to the organization.

AI Research • Techmeme

Anthropic launched tools that show companies how their spending on its models is being used, lifting the curtain on usage ahead of a planned IPO. The move gives enterprise customers visibility into what their AI budgets are buying.

Business • TechCrunch AI

OpenAI said it is launching an election 'war room' ahead of the US midterms to identify potential spread of misinformation or other efforts to disrupt elections. The company disclosed the plan exclusively to Decoded by POLITICO.

Policy • Techmeme