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China eyes export curbs on its top AI models, and Europe is caught in the middle

China is looking into restricting foreign access to its most advanced AI models. Authorities have already held talks with tech giants like Alibaba and Bytedance. For Europe, which relies heavily on ...
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Meta follows SpaceX's playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare AI compute to outside customers

Meta is building its own cloud business to sell spare AI compute to outside customers. With planned AI investments of up to $145 billion this year alone, the same question that came up with xAI now ...
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Anthropic gets US approval to bring back Claude Mythos 5

The US government has approved Anthropic to redeploy Claude Mythos 5, according to the company. The model is Anthropic's most powerful AI model for cybersecurity and can now be used again by US ...
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OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol cheats on software tests more than any model before it

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 cheats a lot. That's the key finding from an independent evaluation by METR. During testing with software tasks, OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol showed the highest rate of ...
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Half of Claude users say AI can already handle half their work according to Anthropic survey

About half of Claude users say AI can already handle half or more of their work. That's according to a survey of roughly 9,700 Claude users (Chat, Cowork, Code) by Anthropic. About 33 percent see AI ...
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AI startup Lindy ditched Claude entirely for Deepseek, saving millions as cost pressure mounts on Anthropic

Anthropic better get moving on its IPO. OpenAI apparently already missed its optimal window and postponed. Now even Anthropic's explosive growth could come under pressure as companies tighten AI ...
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Google bakes computer control directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, letting the model see and operate your screen

Google has integrated "Computer Use" directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash. The model can now see, understand, and interact with computers, browsers, and mobile devices on its own. Previously, this was only ...
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Five Eyes intelligence alliance says frontier AI models could reshape offensive cyber ops in months

The Five Eyes intelligence agencies warn: AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are only months away. That's according to the Guardian. In a rare joint statement, the signals ...
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NYU finance professor Damodaran warns an AI crash could hit harder than the dot-com bust

Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University, warns that a potential crash in the AI sector could be more painful than the bursting of the dot-com bubble around 2000. In the podcast ...
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Google Deepmind loses another top AI researcher as Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves for Anthropic

The timing makes it worse. Shortly before, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI, one of the minds behind the reasoning approach powering Google's latest models. Within weeks, Anthropic and ...
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OpenAI researchers show small doses of "beneficial trait" training make AI models broadly safer and harder to manipulate

Reinforcement learning on realistic scenarios with desired behavioral traits is supposed to make AI models safer and more helpful across domains. The approach is fundamentally different from Anthropic ...
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Microsoft researcher builds a working neural network out of goats in Age of Empires II to critique AI science

Adrian de Wynter, a researcher at Microsoft and the University of York, has built a working neural network inside the map editor of the legendary strategy game Age of Empires II. It sounds like a joke ...