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China’s new unfiltered AI Is a hacker’s budget dream
A new Chinese AI model, GLM-5.2, is attracting attention because experts say it performs almost as well as some of the world's best AI systems on cybersecurity tasks.
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Meituan says new trillion-parameter AI model trained entirely on Chinese-made chips
China's food delivery giant Meituan said on Tuesday it had released and would open-source its next-generation LongCat large language model, claiming it is the world's first trillion-parameter AI system trained and run entirely on a 50,000-chip cluster powered by Chinese-made processors.
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Portugal launches its own open-source AI model, “Amália”
Amália comes as an alternative Portuguese-language large language model (LLM) that will be released under an open-source license.
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Money for AI keeps flowing into Europe, but it’s taking detours
Investors in Europe are looking beyond the usual AI stocks. Instead, they’re reshifting their focus to “behind the scenes” companies that make AI possible in the first place, such as banks and power companies. There is a good reason for it, too.
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Dutch regulator warns users are “pouring their hearts into chatbots” over data risks
People are unknowingly sharing personal and sensitive information with chatbots. This information can never be retrieved, but it also makes a handful of tech companies powerful and influential. The Dutch data protection authority urges greater awareness.
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AI drone quickly finds hikers lost and freezing in Australian national park
AI technology is not necessarily going to take your job away. And it can also save lives. In Australia, a fire and rescue team just used an AI-equipped drone to find two hikers missing in the Snowy Mountains.
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Google lets Gemini analyze parts of your screen in Chrome – but one key territory remains excluded
Google is taking another step towards turning its operating system Chrome into an AI assistant with a new Gemini feature that can analyze exactly what users are looking at on screen.
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Companies are swapping premium AI for cheaper alternatives
Silicon Valley's powerful and pricey AI models have been a necessity for businesses looking to future-proof themselves. But now a growing number of tech CEOs are arguing that cheaper options would be crucial for their wider adoption.
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Majority of Americans shout and swear at AI-powered customer service agents
Businesses keep automating customer service, but surveys show that more and more Americans are so angered by chatbots that they shout “human!” into their phones, swear, and try to game the system to reach a human agent faster. In short, customers are fed up.
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Musk announces rollout of Grok 4.5, says it’s as good if not better than Anthropic’s Claude Opus
Grok 4.5 has been released for private beta testing, and Elon Musk is confident that this model’s performance is on par with, or potentially exceeds, Anthropic’s flagship model.
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British American Tobacco slashes 9,000 jobs after AI initiative promises to cut annual costs by $800B
British American Tobacco is laying off roughly 20% of its workforce in an AI-driven push to secure almost $800 billion in annual cost savings by 2028.
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Japanese AI police chief takes on $2 billion scam epidemic
The Osaka police force is using an AI avatar of a police chief to help raise awareness of an online fraud outbreak that cost victims around $2 billion in 2025.
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Austria urges EU to consider hosting Anthropic
Austria has proposed that the European Union should consider hosting Anthropic within the bloc's borders in order to counter efforts by the United States to block foreigners from using the AI company's most advanced models.
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Google limits Meta's use of Gemini AI models, delaying AI projects
Google has limited Meta's use of its Gemini AI models as it could not meet the social media giant’s computing capacity demand, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
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US approves limited release of Anthropic's Mythos 5 AI model
The US government has cleared Anthropic’s Mythos 5 AI model for limited release to a group of trusted US organizations, the company said on Friday.
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OpenAI limits access to new GPT-5.6 models at US government’s request
OpenAI is rolling out its new artificial intelligence (AI) models, but access will initially be limited to a “small group of trusted partners” after the US government asked the company to begin with a limited preview.
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X suspending security researchers over so-called "malicious behavior," causing uproar
Multiple cybersecurity researchers on X this week are sounding the alarm that AI moderation bots are suspending accounts and removing years of security research – all because their technical posts are being flagged as "malicious behavior."
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Rumors are spreading about this new Claude agent update
Rumors are swirling online that Anthropic may be preparing one of its biggest upgrades to Claude AI agents – taking Cowork mobile.
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Peppa Pig AI contract sparks fears over child actors signing away their voices
American multinational media company Hasbro is under fire for requiring child actors to agree to relinquish their voices to AI when signing up for future Peppa Pig shows.
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Your Gmail might be feeding AI, and even Google’s chatbot is warning about it
With warnings regarding Google’s AI, Gemini, reading your emails, attachments, and bank statements popping up, Gemini itself agrees that tips on how to protect your privacy are worth following and that the tech giant is playing somewhat dirty.
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