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Your gaming data could be the secret to AGI, according to this Bezos-backed startup
General Intuition, a Bezos-backed startup, believes gaming data could be key to achieving artificial general...
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Chinese AI startup MiniMax plans to open-source a 2.7 trillion parameter model later this year
Chinese AI startup MiniMax is developing a large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters and plans to release it as...
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Pickup Artist Mystery Has an AI Girlfriend
A new book reveals that Mystery, a pickup artist and dating coach, engaged in sexual activity and drug use with an AI...
Wired AI
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Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips
ZML, a French AI startup backed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has released ZML/LLMD, open-source software designed...
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AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round
SambaNova, an AI chip maker, has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation in a new funding round. This comes just...
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Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets
Researchers have identified a vulnerability called 'HalluSquatting' that exploits 9 popular AI tools' tendency to...
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Ant Group’s Robbyant Open-Sources LingBot-Vision: A 1B Boundary-Centric Vision Foundation Model for Dense Spatial Perception
Ant Group's Robbyant has open-sourced LingBot-Vision, a 1 billion parameter vision foundation model that uses masked...
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NVIDIA Releases Audex (Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B): A Unified Audio-Text LLM That Preserves the Text Intelligence of Its Backbone
NVIDIA released Audex (Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B), a unified audio-text large language model that combines audio...
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Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
Discord's AI moderation system wrongfully banned users since May due to a bug that incorrectly flagged harmless images...
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Cohere Transcribe Arabic is an open-source model built for Arabic's toughest transcription problems
Cohere has released Transcribe Arabic, an open-source speech recognition model with 2 billion parameters that...
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How novice coders can develop AI programs for military applications
A USAF cadet and Lincoln Laboratory researcher demonstrated that AI chatbots can enable nontechnical military service...
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Liquid AI Open-Sources Antidoom: A Final Token Preference Optimization (FTPO) Method that Reduces Doom Loops in Reasoning Models
Liquid AI released Antidoom, an open-source method that eliminates doom loops in reasoning models by using Final Token...
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China eyes export curbs on its top AI models, and Europe is caught in the middle
Chinese authorities are considering restricting foreign access to the country's most powerful AI models from companies...
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Jesse Thaler named director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Jesse Thaler, a physics professor and director of the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental...
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AI law startup Norm raises $120M, hits unicorn valuation
AI law startup Norm has raised $120 million in Series C funding led by Khosla Ventures, achieving a $1.2 billion...
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Self-Driving Company Gets Funding and Chips From AMD
A self-driving autonomous vehicle company has secured funding and received chip support from AMD, marking the...
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Insilico Medicine advances AI drug for IPF to Phase III trials
Insilico Medicine has advanced an AI-discovered drug for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) to Phase III clinical...
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Solos debuts an even lighter version of its camera-less smart glasses
Solos announced the AirGo A6, a lightweight camera-less version of its smart glasses that weighs around 19 grams and...
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Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom
Savi, a company focused on protecting consumers from AI-powered scams like deepfake kidnapping ransom demands, has...
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