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AI labs are failing to keep their own systems in check

No AI company fully applies basic control measures to its own internal AI systems. That's the takeaway from the first ...
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US reportedly favors selective bans over blanket restrictions on Chinese open weight models citing security concerns

The Trump administration is planning targeted bans on Chinese AI models rather than a blanket ban. After public pressure, OpenAI and Google DeepMind signed an open letter opposing regulation of ...
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OpenAI acquires NextSlide to bring AI-generated presentations into ChatGPT

OpenAI acquired NextSlide, the startup that turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into editable presentations. Founder Ahmed Beshry now works on the product side at OpenAI, building ChatGPT.
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Microsoft, Nvidia and Anthropic close 45 billion dollar deal

Microsoft, Nvidia, and Anthropic have unveiled a set of new strategic partnerships valued at 45 billion dollars.
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Jonathan Kemper

World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled a simulation engine that trains robot controllers entirely in virtual environments. From a single real-world task, the system ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Anthropic puts its most powerful model Claude Mythos 5 to work for cyber defense Anthropic is also plugging Mythos 5 into partner security products protecting hospitals, ...
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AI and society

Read full article about: US wants to force partner countries to choose between Washington and Beijing in the AI race The US is drafting a letter to partner countries telling them to pick a side in the ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Read full article about: Waymo builds its own chip for its robotaxis, cutting its reliance on Nvidia Waymo built its own chip for its robotaxis, cutting its reliance on Nvidia. Alphabet's robotaxi ...
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Meta's Hatch AI agent could cost up to $200 a month and marks its first paid AI product

Meta is developing a paid AI agent product called "Hatch" that could cost up to $200 per month. Hatch is designed to be a user-friendly version of the open-source tool OpenClaw and will handle tasks ...
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Alibaba's Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS Plus tops the competition in the text-to-speech rankings

Alibaba's new text-to-speech model, Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus, leads Artificial Analysis' Speech Arena leaderboard for provider voices. With an Elo score of 1,236, it sits just ahead of Simba 3.2 (1,234 ...
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Google files first joint lawsuit with FBI over Chinese AI scam network, OpenAI blocks PRC influence clusters

Within days of each other, Google and OpenAI separately exposed operations allegedly originating in China that use AI for fraud and covert influence campaigns. Both target US infrastructure and ...
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MiniMax M3: Open-weight model with a million-token context challenges proprietary leaders

Chinese AI company MiniMax has released its new model M3. It's billed as the first open-weight model to combine top-tier coding performance, a one-million-token context window, and native ...