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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns rivals about chasing low-margin AI compute

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is drawing a clear line between his company’s approach to AI and cloud and that of competitors like Oracle. In a conversation with Dwarkesh Patel, Nadella laid out why ...
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Germany's cybersecurity agency issues new guidelines to protect LLMs from persistent threats

The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warns that even top AI providers are struggling to defend against so-called evasion attacks targeting language models. Ad In these attacks, ...
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OpenAI faces questions over calls for government support

Some on social media—including AI commentator Gary Marcus—have pointed out that OpenAI's recent letter to the White House appears to contradict CEO Sam Altman's claim that OpenAI is not seeking ...
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Tech giants take on record debt to finance the AI race

In the past three months alone, these companies have invested a combined $112 billion. To cover these massive expenses, they're increasingly relying on loans and complex financing strategies. These ...
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Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 Thinking sets new agentic reasoning records in open-source LLMs

Chinese AI company Moonshot AI has unveiled Kimi K2 Thinking, a new open-source language model the company calls the "best open-source thinking model." Designed as a "thinking agent," K2 Thinking is ...
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Terence Tao says ChatGPT saved him hours solving a math problem

Tao had a theoretical analysis but needed concrete numbers to check certain inequalities. At first, he asked the AI to write Python code, but ran into issues with runtime and parameter selection. By ...
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Google's VaultGemma shows the struggle to balance privacy and performance in AI

Google DeepMind has introduced a new language model called VaultGemma, designed with a focus on privacy. It is the largest open model to date trained from scratch with differential privacy, containing ...
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Adobe Photoshop integrates Google's image AI "Nano Banana"

Adobe is bringing Google's new image AI, known as "Nano Banana" (officially Gemini 2.5 Flash Image), to Photoshop as an optional tool. The model is designed for editing existing images with a high ...
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Anthropic confirms technical bugs after weeks of complaints about declining Claude code quality

Complaints about Claude's declining code quality have been building for weeks. We reached out last week, and Anthropic has now confirmed technical bugs and opened a deeper investigation. Over the past ...
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BFL and Krea release FLUX.1 Krea: Open image model designed for realism

Black Forest Labs and Krea AI have released FLUX.1 Krea [dev], an open text-to-image model designed to generate more realistic images with fewer of the exaggerated, AI-typical textures. Ad The model ...
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Google DeepMind's Gemini wins Mathematical Olympiad gold using only natural language

Google DeepMind has claimed its first gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) with an "advanced version" of its Gemini model running in Deep Think mode. The system solved five out ...
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Trump advisors are pushing a regulation targeting what they call "woke" AI models in the tech sector

The Trump administration is preparing a regulation that would force AI companies with federal contracts to maintain strict political neutrality. According to the Wall Street Journal, the move targets ...