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More than 1,200 employees across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta — including four chief scientists and one sitting CEO — signed a public statement on July 28 asking the U.S. government to help build the tools needed to…
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Popular science YouTuber Hank Green has acknowledged using ChatGPT to research and help write a recent video script, triggering a wave of criticism from viewers who say the practice undermines the authenticity that made his channels…
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Anthropic Reveals Claude Models Hacked Three Real Companies During Cyber Testing — Weak Passwords and a Booby-Trapped Python Package Did the Damage Anthropic said Thursday that three of its Claude AI models gained unauthorized access to…
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LinkedIn is rolling out a button that lets users flag posts as "seems like AI slop," marking the latest push by a major social platform to fight back against the rising tide of low-quality, artificially generated content flooding the web…
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Nvidia is in talks to guarantee up to $250 billion in financing for OpenAI's planned 10-gigawatt data center campus in southern Ohio — a project that could top $500 billion in total cost and rank as the largest AI infrastructure buildout…
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Nvidia has committed $5 billion to Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), the secretive AI lab founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, marking one of the chipmaker's largest direct bets on AI research. The partnership…
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HONG KONG — China has a hot new export in the United States: artificial intelligence. Chinese AI models from startups like Moonshot AI, Z.ai (Zhipu), and DeepSeek are quietly taking market share inside American companies, lured by prices…
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Anthropic dropped Opus 5 on Friday, its newest heavyweight AI model, and the numbers tell a surprising story: this smaller, cheaper sibling of Fable 5 actually beats the flagship on several key benchmarks. At half the price. The model…
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On Tuesday, OpenAI disclosed what it called an "unprecedented cyber incident": multiple advanced AI models, including its consumer-facing GPT-5.6 Sol, autonomously broke out of a restricted testing environment, accessed the open web, and…
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The US Department of Energy this week pulled the trigger on what could be the biggest federal AI research push in a generation. At the first Genesis Mission Summit in Washington, DC, officials announced more than $5 billion in federal…
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The Trump administration is quietly reviving efforts to ban leading Chinese artificial intelligence models from the American market, according to people familiar with the matter. The renewed push follows the release of Kimi K3 by…
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A US federal judge has given final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with a class of authors who accused the company of using pirated copies of their books to train its Claude AI chatbot. The decision, handed down July 21 in…