How responsible AI is evolving

Four articles held together by one question: who vouches for what AI produces, and what do we use it for that's worth doing? C2PA Content Credentials enters Gemini, Search, and Chrome. SynthID, Google's watermark for generated content, is adopted for the first time by OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Kakao: the major labs converge for the first time on a shared provenance mechanism. A story largely missed by mainstream media, structural for the media literacy of the next decade. On the applied front: Gemini for Science is the multi-agent platform for scientific research; WeatherNext, with the case of hurricane Melissa predicted five days ahead, shows what a specialized, well-grounded model can do. It's the least spectacular and most interesting front for those who think of AI as a collective tool, not a gadget.