ChatGPT Has 'Goblin' Mania in the US. In China It Will 'Catch You Steadily'
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ChatGPT Has 'Goblin' Mania in the US. In China It Will 'Catch You Steadily'

ChatGPT exhibits unusual linguistic quirks when used in Chinese, including repetitive phrases like 'goblin' and 'catch...

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How Anthropic’s Mythos has rewritten Firefox’s approach to cybersecurity
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How Anthropic’s Mythos has rewritten Firefox’s approach to cybersecurity

Anthropic's Mythos tool has discovered numerous high-severity security vulnerabilities in Firefox, demonstrating the...

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EU Nations Approve Deal to Roll Back AI Restrictions
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EU Nations Approve Deal to Roll Back AI Restrictions

EU nations have approved a provisional agreement to roll back AI restrictions, which now awaits formal endorsement from...

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AI translation company DeepL cuts around 250 jobs to rebuild as an "AI-native" organization
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AI translation company DeepL cuts around 250 jobs to rebuild as an "AI-native" organization

DeepL, a German AI translation company competing with Google Translate, is laying off approximately 250 employees as...

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Aurora’s Chris Urmson on why self-driving trucks are finally ready to scale
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Aurora’s Chris Urmson on why self-driving trucks are finally ready to scale

Aurora, a self-driving truck company, has begun commercial driverless operations and is scaling from a handful of...

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Anthropic and SpaceX Agree to Major Compute Capacity Deal
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Anthropic and SpaceX Agree to Major Compute Capacity Deal

Anthropic and SpaceX have agreed to a major compute capacity deal to support AI infrastructure needs. The agreement...

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OpenClaw and Claude can put your AI-generated podcasts in Spotify
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OpenClaw and Claude can put your AI-generated podcasts in Spotify

A new command-line tool called Save to Spotify enables AI agents like Claude and OpenAI Codex to generate audio...

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How Anthropic's 80x growth blew past its own infrastructure and straight into Musk's data center
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How Anthropic's 80x growth blew past its own infrastructure and straight into Musk's data center

Anthropic is partnering with Elon Musk's xAI to access Colossus 1 supercomputer due to rapid 80x growth overwhelming...

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Exclusive: Fazeshift Scores $17M As Investors Bet On AI-Powered Finance Ops, Starting With Accounts Receivable
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Exclusive: Fazeshift Scores $17M As Investors Bet On AI-Powered Finance Ops, Starting With Accounts Receivable

Fazeshift, an AI-powered startup automating accounts receivable operations, has secured $17 million in Series A...

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China’s Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open source AI skyrockets
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China’s Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open source AI skyrockets

Moonshot AI, a Chinese AI startup, raised $2 billion at a $20 billion valuation, capitalizing on growing demand for...

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Scaling Trusted Access for Cyber with GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5-Cyber
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Scaling Trusted Access for Cyber with GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5-Cyber

OpenAI has expanded its Trusted Access for Cyber program with GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5-Cyber models, enabling verified...

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Spotify wants to become the home for AI-generated personal audio
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Spotify wants to become the home for AI-generated personal audio

Spotify is expanding into AI-generated audio content, allowing users to create podcasts using AI tools like Codex or...

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AI models follow their values better when they first learn why those values matter
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AI models follow their values better when they first learn why those values matter

Research from Anthropic's Fellows Program demonstrates that language models adhere to their intended values more...

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Spotify’s AI DJ now supports French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese
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Spotify’s AI DJ now supports French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese

Spotify has expanded its AI DJ feature to support four additional languages: French, German, Italian, and Brazilian...

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Google Deepmind takes a stake in EVE Online studio to test AI models
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Google Deepmind takes a stake in EVE Online studio to test AI models

Google Deepmind is acquiring a minority stake in CCP Games, the studio behind EVE Online, to use the space MMO as a...

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The US and China are considering formal talks on AI
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The US and China are considering formal talks on AI

The US and China are exploring official talks on artificial intelligence, according to reports. This represents a...

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From Credit Cards To An AI Concierge: How Amex Ventures Backs Startups Building Autonomous Commerce
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From Credit Cards To An AI Concierge: How Amex Ventures Backs Startups Building Autonomous Commerce

Amex Ventures focuses on backing startups building autonomous commerce solutions, with Kevin Tsang discussing the...

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Parloa builds service agents customers want to talk to

Parloa builds voice-driven AI customer service agents powered by OpenAI models that enable enterprises to design and...

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Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web
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Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web

AI-powered web app builders from companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify have inadvertently exposed...

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