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OpenAI builds 'AI for Science' team to advance computational discovery

OpenAI is expanding its research efforts with a new program called OpenAI for Science, created to develop AI systems that can support scientific reasoning and speed up discoveries in physics and ...
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Notion AI agents get security update after potential data leak

Notion has responded to security concerns about its AI agents (see below). To counter prompt injection attacks—hidden manipulations in user inputs or uploaded files—Notion has upgraded its internal ...
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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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OpenAI has reportedly misjudged its cash burn by $80 billion

The main reason for these numbers is the soaring cost of computing power needed to train and run OpenAI's models, along with a major push to build out its own server infrastructure. The company plans ...
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AI researcher Andrej Karpathy says he's "bearish on reinforcement learning" for LLM training

Andrej Karpathy, a former Tesla and OpenAI researcher, is part of a growing movement in the AI community calling for a new approach to building large language models (LLMs) and AI systems. On X, ...
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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 ...
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns users not to trust ChatGPT agent with sensitive or personal data

ChatGPT agent is OpenAI's first system built to handle multi-step tasks autonomously. According to Altman, the agent can break down requests into smaller steps, use external tools, and carry out ...
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AI coding can make developers slower even if they feel faster

Quentin Anthony, one of the 16 developers involved in the METR study, shared his take on the results on X. Unlike most participants, Anthony managed to cut his task completion time by 38 percent with ...
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Musk unveils Grok 4 as xAI’s new AI model that beats OpenAI and Google on major benchmarks

Amid backlash over antisemitic content and major leadership shakeups, Elon Musk has introduced Grok 4, the latest flagship AI model from xAI. The launch comes during a period of upheaval for Musk's ...