Recent York Times, Amazon ink AI deal

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. One in all journalism’s last major AI holdouts just fell — with the Recent York Times officially signing its first-ever AI licensing take care of Amazon.

Despite ongoing lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft, a change in user habits (and financial streams for editorial outlets) could also be forcing a decisive latest chapter within the industry’s uneasy AI embrace.

In today’s AI rundown:

• NYT signs AI licensing agreement with Amazon

• Black Forest Labs’ latest image editing model

• Automate patient consultation documentation

• AI achieves first peer-reviewed paper acceptance

• 4 latest AI tools & 4 job opportunities

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

THE NEW YORK TIMES & AMAZON

📰 NYT signs AI licensing agreement with Amazon

The Rundown: The Recent York Times just struck its first-ever AI licensing take care of Amazon, allowing the corporate to make use of NYT editorial content across its platforms and to coach its AI models.

The small print:

• The multi-year deal covers licensed content, including articles from the Times, recipes from NYT Cooking, and sports content from The Athletic.

• Amazon will incorporate the content into products like Alexa smart speakers, which is able to attribute NYT content and supply links for a full reader experience.

• The deal is the NYT’s first AI licensing deal, and comes amidst ongoing lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft over the usage of its content for training.

Why it matters: One in all the last major holdouts in journalism is finally giving in to the AI wave — but is notably (though unsurprisingly, no less than in OpenAI’s case) going with Amazon over stronger AI rivals. The tech has quickly modified how and where users eat content, and even the staunchest detractors at the moment are changing course.

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BLACK FOREST LABS

🎆 Black Forest Labs’ latest image editing model

The Rundown: Black Forest Labs just launched FLUX.1 Kontext, a brand new AI system that understands each text and pictures — enabling users to edit and transform images with easy text commands while maintaining character consistency across iterations.

The small print:

• Unlike other text-to-image models, Kontext processes visual and text inputs together, enabling targeted editing at accelerates to 8x faster than rival models.

• The system excels at character preservation, local editing, style transfer, and maintaining consistency across multiple steps and versions of a picture.

• BFL released two versions: Kontext [pro] for fast multi-step editing and [max] for higher quality, higher prompt following, and enhanced typography.

• The corporate also introduced Playground, a web-based platform for businesses to check models before integrating them via APIs.

Why it matters: OpenAI’s 4o / gpt-image-1 release was a serious step forward in editing via text prompts, but often appears to recreate its own rendering of a picture quite than preserving necessary details for specific characters. BFL’s latest release looks to be a step up in maintaining consistency at much faster speeds.

AI TRAINING

🏥 Automate patient consultation documentation

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn construct an automatic system that transcribes your patient consultations, generates medical summaries, extracts treatment plans, and compiles every little thing right into a document.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit Zapier Agents, click the plus button, and create a “Recent Agent”

2. Configure your agent to trigger when latest (anonymized) audio files are uploaded to a specified folder in Google Drive

3. Add three essential tools: ChatGPT to transcribe the audio, ChatGPT again to create a medical summary and extract treatment recommendations, and Google Docs to compile every little thing right into a structured clinical document

4. Test your setup with simulated data and activate your agent

Note: All the time obtain patient consent before recording, remove identifiable info before processing, and ensure storage methods comply with healthcare privacy regulations.

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INTOLOGY AI

🧪 AI achieves first peer-reviewed paper acceptance

The Rundown: Intology AI’s Zochi just became the primary AI to independently achieve peer-reviewed publication at ACL 2025, an A* natural language processing conference, showing the power to conduct scientific research at the best academic standards.

The small print:

• Zochi autonomously accomplished all the research process, from analyzing hundreds of papers to designing experiments and writing the manuscript.

• The system’s “Tempest” paper on multi-turn jailbreaking achieved a 4.0 meta-review rating, placing it in the highest 8.2% of all ACL submissions.

• Operating without human intervention apart from formatting fixes, Zochi identified research gaps, implemented latest methods, and validated results.

• Intology plans to release Zochi in beta as a collaborative research tool, starting with a general copilot before expanding to full autonomous capabilities.

Why it matters: We’ve seen loads of competition within the AI scientist arena, but ACL’s selective acceptance rate and the paper’s rating reflect probably the most impressive publications up to now from an agentic system. As AI begins contributing original research alongside humans, the pace of discovery is about to exponentially increase.

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📰 Every little thing else in AI today

DeepSeek’s latest update to its R1 model moved into the No. 3 slot on the Artificial Evaluation leaderboard, now behind only OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini.

Tencent’s Hunyuan released HunyuanVideo-Avatar, an open-source model that turns still images into short videos with sound.

Perplexity launched Labs, a brand new feature for Pro users that allows content creation like analytical reports, through multi-tool integrations for more complex tasks.

Hume released EVI 3, a brand new speech language model that creates custom voices through speech-to-speech interaction and outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o in testing.

Resemble AI open-sourced Chatterbox, a free latest voice cloning model that the corporate claims surpasses leaders like ElevenLabs in testing.

Manus introduced Manus Slides, a brand new feature allowing the agentic system to create tailored slide decks autonomously.

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Rowan, Joey, Zach, Alvaro, and Jason—The Rundown’s editorial team