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AI summary Google says it will recognize a common robots.txt 'policy token' that lets sites state AI training preferences for several AI providers at once, drawing on the IETF's AIPREF working group. If a site opts out with this token and does not mention Google-Extended, Google will treat it as a block on Google-Extended, its own training control available since 2023. Company-specific controls will keep working alongside the shared signal. Google aims to support the mechanism together with other AI providers in 2027.
AI summary Microsoft Research's latest roundup, hosted by Sowbhagya Suresh, highlights ForkPilot, a self-improving agent framework that matched top methods across six benchmarks while lowering AI processing needs by as much as 59%. A separate framework, PBC, corrects weather models' past errors, won a global contest on two-to-six-week forecasting and is being used in Kenya for monsoon predictions. An analysis of Copilot Chat usage found document editing made up over 20 percent of classified activity, while a study of Shiksha Copilot involving more than a thousand teachers in India reported less time spent on lesson planning. The protein model BioEmu2 is also now in public preview.