OpenAI’s AGI boss is taking a leave of absence
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OpenAI’s AGI boss is taking a leave of absence

OpenAI's CEO of AGI deployment Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks due to a neuroimmune condition,...

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Anthropic ramps up its political activities with a new PAC
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Anthropic ramps up its political activities with a new PAC

Anthropic has established a new Political Action Committee (PAC) to support candidates aligned with its policy agenda...

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AI companies are building huge natural gas plants to power data centers. What could go wrong?
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AI companies are building huge natural gas plants to power data centers. What could go wrong?

Meta, Microsoft, and Google are investing in new natural gas power plants to power their AI data centers, raising...

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OpenAI’s Fidji Simo Is Taking Medical Leave Amid an Executive Shake-Up
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OpenAI’s Fidji Simo Is Taking Medical Leave Amid an Executive Shake-Up

OpenAI's CEO of AGI deployment Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks amid major leadership restructuring...

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Deepseek v4 will reportedly run entirely on Huawei chips in a major win for China's AI independence push
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Deepseek v4 will reportedly run entirely on Huawei chips in a major win for China's AI independence push

DeepSeek v4, expected to launch soon, will run exclusively on Huawei chips, marking a significant step in China's AI...

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Microsoft is betting $10 billion on Japan's AI future
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Microsoft is betting $10 billion on Japan's AI future

Microsoft is committing $10 billion in investment to Japan between 2026 and 2029, marking its largest financial...

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Microsoft to Invest $10B in AI and Cybersecurity in Japan
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Microsoft to Invest $10B in AI and Cybersecurity in Japan

Microsoft announced a $10 billion investment in AI and cybersecurity infrastructure in Japan, continuing its regional...

AI Business
Anthropic says Claude Code's usage drain comes down to peak-hour caps and ballooning contexts
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Anthropic says Claude Code's usage drain comes down to peak-hour caps and ballooning contexts

Anthropic explains that Claude Code users are experiencing rapid token usage depletion due to peak-hour capacity limits...

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OpenAI shifts to usage-based pricing for Codex in ChatGPT business plans
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OpenAI shifts to usage-based pricing for Codex in ChatGPT business plans

OpenAI is transitioning Codex in its ChatGPT business plans from fixed-license pricing to usage-based pricing, allowing...

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The Facebook insider building content moderation for the AI era
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The Facebook insider building content moderation for the AI era

Moonbounce, founded by a Facebook insider, has raised $12 million for its AI control engine that translates content...

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Google Launches Open Model Family Gemma 4
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Google Launches Open Model Family Gemma 4

Google has launched Gemma 4, a new open model family designed for advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities. The...

AI Business
Chatbots are now prescribing psychiatric drugs
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Chatbots are now prescribing psychiatric drugs

Utah is piloting an AI chatbot system by Legion Health that can prescribe and renew psychiatric medications without...

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Just Because We Can: The Strategic Risks Of Automating Everything
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Just Because We Can: The Strategic Risks Of Automating Everything

The article examines the strategic risks of over-automating systems, arguing that many applications unnecessarily use...

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TII Releases Falcon Perception: A 0.6B-Parameter Early-Fusion Transformer for Open-Vocabulary Grounding and Segmentation from Natural Language Prompts
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TII Releases Falcon Perception: A 0.6B-Parameter Early-Fusion Transformer for Open-Vocabulary Grounding and Segmentation from Natural Language Prompts

TII has released Falcon Perception, a 0.6B-parameter early-fusion transformer model designed for open-vocabulary visual...

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Step by Step Guide to Build an End-to-End Model Optimization Pipeline with NVIDIA Model Optimizer Using FastNAS Pruning and Fine-Tuning
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Step by Step Guide to Build an End-to-End Model Optimization Pipeline with NVIDIA Model Optimizer Using FastNAS Pruning and Fine-Tuning

A tutorial on building an end-to-end model optimization pipeline using NVIDIA Model Optimizer, covering training,...

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Arcee AI Releases Trinity Large Thinking: An Apache 2.0 Open Reasoning Model for Long-Horizon Agents and Tool Use
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Arcee AI Releases Trinity Large Thinking: An Apache 2.0 Open Reasoning Model for Long-Horizon Agents and Tool Use

Arcee AI has released Trinity Large Thinking, an open-weight reasoning model distributed under the Apache 2.0 license...

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MCP is Alive, but Faces Challenges
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MCP is Alive, but Faces Challenges

MCP (Model Context Protocol), an open standard for AI agents, continues to be adopted by users despite encountering...

AI Business
PSA: Anyone with a link can view your Granola notes by default
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PSA: Anyone with a link can view your Granola notes by default

Granola, an AI-powered note-taking app, has a privacy concern where notes are viewable to anyone with a link by default...

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Microsoft Goes Beyond LLMs With New Voice, Image Models
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Microsoft Goes Beyond LLMs With New Voice, Image Models

Microsoft has announced new AI models that extend beyond large language models to include voice and image capabilities....

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