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OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates
Businesses are willing to flop back and forth as each lab releases new models, volatility that should give both companies' investors pause about how "sticky" enterprise AI spending really is.
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Adobe Firefly adds AI audio tools and Google's Gemini Omni Flash
Adobe is making three AI audio tools broadly available in Firefly. Generate Music, Generate Speech, and Generate Sound Effects create royalty-free music, voiceovers, and sound effects for video projec
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Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule
Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool.
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Debates over AI consciousness are a trap
“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at their creators. Prominent tech leaders such
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Frontier Radar #4: China has caught up, so what's left of the Western AI lead?
Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 are now within striking distance of the best US models. Western labs blame distillation, and there's real evidence for it. But guilty or not, the conclusion is the same: a model le
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Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.
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KI-Pioneer Sutton calls synthetic data a "big mistake" in the face of an infinitely complex world
Turing Award winner Richard Sutton calls synthetic data a "big mistake" for scaling large language models. The world is infinitely complex, and any simulation of it is "microscopic," with human expert
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Anthropic's most capable model, codenamed "Model 2," is for internal use only
Anthropic uses an unpublished AI model internally that is more powerful than any publicly available version of Claude. The article Anthropic's most capable model, codenamed "Model 2," i
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China now has its own AI circular financing scheme
Unitree Robotics rose 460 percent in its Shanghai IPO, hitting a valuation of around $50 billion. But an FT report shows much of the demand for its robots comes from state-backed training centers that
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Terence Tao says AI could trigger math's biggest crisis since Gödel
In a new essay, Terence Tao warns that AI could push mathematics into a crisis on par with the foundational upheaval around 1900. What's being tested this time isn't mathematical truth but the values
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OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections
A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.
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AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t
As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumers are growing more wary of the technology — and Silicon Valley is discovering that widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily lead to acceptance.
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Attackers are using AI to build exploits for industrial control systems, U.S. agencies warn
The NSA, CISA, and FBI say attackers are using AI to build exploit scripts targeting Siemens S7 controllers, drastically cutting the time and skill needed to attack industrial control systems. Critica
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China lets Nvidia's H200 chips trickle onto the mainland to help its AI firms keep pace with the US
China is letting small batches of Nvidia's H200 chips onto the mainland to help domestic AI firms in the race with the US. The article China lets Nvidia's H200 chips trickle onto the mainland to
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GLM-5.3 tops the open-model rankings and undercuts rivals on price, but its release is delayed
GLM-5.3, the AI model from Chinese startup Z.ai, scores 60 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. That ties it with Kimi K3 for the top spot among open models, and it's seven points ahe
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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. The article AI labs are failing to keep their own systems in check appeared first on The Decoder.
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Anthropic says any lab can now let a language model agent run the whole protein design stack
Anthropic had its Claude models design small proteins on their own that dock onto target structures in the body, a key step in early drug development. The hit rate reached up to 35 percent, far above
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The Download: AI’s self-improvement problem, and what’s driving the heat
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so
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OpenAI says it's "pacing model development" as AI cybersecurity risks grow too dangerous
OpenAI is deliberately "pacing AI model development," partly because the upcoming "Astra" model may be close to gaining critical cyberattack capabilities. A new monitoring system triggers an alert wit
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OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach
The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process.
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Warp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development
On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, a new infrastructure system designed to make building AI software factories as easy as possible.
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Anthropic CEO says AI centralizes by nature and open models just shift power to whoever owns the chips
An open fight over AI regulation has broken out on X. Investor Gavin Baker, former White House adviser David Sacks, and Meta researcher Yann LeCun accuse Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei of using fear rheto
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Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked
Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.
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The Download: how people really use AI, and Flock’s design choices
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We still don’t know how people are really using AI
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