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DeepSeek rushes to launch new AI model as China goes all in

DeepSeek is looking to press home its advantage.
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Anthropic releases new Sonnet model with advanced coding capabilities

Anthropic has released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, its best large language model (LLM) for solving real-world coding problems, along with the first agentic coding tool.
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New Trump and Musk video is a win for AI models everywhere

A compromising AI-generated video of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk is going viral on social media, but AI models have finally mastered the art of generating the correct number of fingers and toes.
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OpenAI removes users in China, North Korea suspected of malicious activities

OpenAI has removed accounts of users from China and North Korea.
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AI search startup raises $100M to compete with Google

Search startup Genspark has raised $100 million in a series A funding round, valuing the startup at $530 million, according to a source familiar with the matter, as the race to use artificial intelligence to disrupt Google’s stranglehold on the search engine market heats up.
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DeepSeek to share some AI model code, doubling down on open source

Chinese startup DeepSeek will make its models' code publicly available, it said on Friday, doubling down on its commitment to open-source artificial intelligence.
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Universities capitalize on China’s “Sputnik moment”

Universities across China have launched artificial intelligence (AI) courses this month based on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, whose AI breakthrough has been described as a "Sputnik moment" for China and garnered widespread attention
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Microsoft Majorana 1 quantum chip is “a breakthrough in quantum computing”

Microsoft on Wednesday introduces Majorana 1 – a “world’s first" quantum chip expected to push the capabilities of quantum computers to new limits “solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades.”
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Can you guess which AI bot shares the most data with third parties?

Your favorite AI chatbot might be tracking you. A new study has shown that all top AI chatbots collect user data, and some even share it with third parties.
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DeepSeek's outside funding draws interest from Alibaba, Chinese state funds – media

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is considering outside funding for the first time and has drawn interest from Alibaba and state funds, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing sources with knowledge of internal discussions.
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China boasts underwater hub can handle 7,000 DeepSeek chats per second

A new underwater data center off the tropical island of Hainan can handle 7,000 DeepSeek conversations per second, Chinese state media has reported.
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China’s answer to OpenAI’s Sora: new video generator boasts 30B parameters

A Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company has revealed its homegrown text-to-video model like OpenAI’s Sora – just newer and potentially with more parameters.
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AI hallucinations in court papers spell trouble for lawyers

US personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan sent an urgent email this month to its more than 1,000 lawyers: Artificial intelligence can invent fake case law, and using made-up information in a court filing could get you fired.
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Former OpenAI tech chief Murati launches AI startup, poaching staff from ChatGPT maker

Former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati launched an AI startup called Thinking Machines Lab.
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OpenAI study proves LLMs still behind human engineers in over 1400 real-world tasks

OpenAI is testing AI models by evaluating benchmarks using over 1,400 actual freelance engineering tasks found on Upwork. The results prove that LLMs aren't quite ready for the real world yet.
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Baidu, Tencent embrace DeepSeek as China’s AI race heat up

Some of China's biggest companies, including Baidu and Tencent, the owner of the WeChat super-app, have announced DeepSeek integration while also developing their own models.
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Musk’s xAI releases Grok 3 models, claims superiority against competitors

The Grok 3 family of models will power Deep Search, allowing users to do multi-step research.
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Japanese artist exhibits chained robot dog programmed to attack people

An exhibition in a Tokyo gallery featuring a chained robot dog trying to break free and attack visitors has sparked strong reactions, with some calling it “abuse.”
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New downloads of DeepSeek suspended in South Korea

South Korea's data protection authority on Monday said new downloads of the Chinese AI app DeepSeek had been suspended in the country after DeepSeek acknowledged failing to take into account some of the agency's rules on protecting personal data.
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OpenAI board rejects Musk's $97.4 billion offer

OpenAI rejected a $97.4 billion bid from a consortium led by billionaire Elon Musk for the ChatGPT maker
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