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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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German court deepens the split on AI and copyright with its latest ruling

Just days after a major copyright ruling in the UK, a Munich court took a sharply different path, highlighting how unsettled the rules around AI and copyrighted content still are. Late last year, GEMA ...
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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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Most LLM benchmarks are flawed, casting doubt on AI progress metrics, study finds

A new international study highlights major problems with large language model (LLM) benchmarks, showing that most current evaluation methods have serious flaws. After reviewing 445 benchmark papers ...
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Facing lawsuits, OpenAI rewires ChatGPT for safer teen use

OpenAI published a "Teen Safety Blueprint" to better protect young users from harm. The new framework follows incidents where ChatGPT allegedly failed to help users in mental distress. OpenAI has ...
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Six AI all-stars weigh in on hype, hope, and the reality behind the field

Six of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence took the stage at the Queen Elizabeth Prize 2025 ceremony to weigh in on recent breakthroughs, ongoing challenges, and whether current AI ...
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Microsoft and OpenAI set their own rules for AGI

Microsoft and OpenAI have decided they'll define for themselves what counts as artificial general intelligence (AGI) and when they've supposedly achieved it. The two companies say they'll appoint a ...
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Reuters: Deepseek emerges as key AI partner in China’s military research

A Reuters analysis shows that China's People's Liberation Army is systematically integrating artificial intelligence from domestic companies such as Deepseek and Alibaba into military systems.
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AI fuels a new wave of fake receipts, according to SAP Concur

SAP Concur, one of the world's leading expense management platforms, reports that AI-generated receipts have become so realistic that even experienced reviewers can no longer rely on visual checks ...