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Google Cloud enters multi-year partnership with Replit

Google Cloud has signed a multi-year partnership with the AI coding startup Replit as it looks to strengthen its position against competitors like Anthropic and Cursor. Under the agreement, Replit ...
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Google rolls out Gemini 3 "Deep Think" for Gemini Ultra subscribers

The technology "builds on" on the Deep Think variant of Gemini 2.5, which recently posted impressive scores at the International Mathematical Olympiad and a major programming competition. To try it ...
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Paris-based Mistral releases Large 3, a major new open-source AI model

Mistral AI is rolling out a new family of open, multilingual, and multimodal models called Mistral 3. The lineup ranges from compact options for edge deployments to a large Mixture-of-Experts model.
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Deepseek V3.2 rivals GPT-5 and Gemini 3 Pro, reaches IMO gold level as open source

Chinese AI lab Deepseek has unveiled V3.2, a new language model that matches GPT-5 and Google's Gemini 3 Pro in key benchmarks and reasoning tasks. The team identified three main flaws in current open ...
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Black Forest Labs secures $300 million to accelerate its vision for advanced image models

Black Forest Labs has raised USD 300 million in a new Series B round, bringing its valuation to USD 3.25 billion. Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP) led the round, with existing investors like ...
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New York targets algorithmic pricing with first-in-the-US disclosure law

According to the New York Times, the measure targets what regulators describe as surveillance pricing. Online retailers must now inform customers whenever prices are calculated using personal data and ...
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Microsoft unveils Fara-7B, a compact model for running AI-driven computer control locally

Microsoft's new Fara-7B model is a compact AI system built to operate user interfaces purely through visual input. Despite its small size, it aims to keep pace with far more complex systems while ...
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DeepseekMath-V2 is Deepseek's latest attempt to pop the US AI bubble

Chinese startup Deepseek reports its new DeepseekMath-V2 model has reached gold medal status at the Math Olympiad, keeping the company in tight competition with Western AI labs. According to Deepseek, ...
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ChatGPT's memory could turn personal details into ads OpenAI CEO Altman once called dystopian

About one in five OpenAI employees is a Meta veteran, a hiring trend that's now shaping the company's culture and strategy. According to The Information, roughly 630 of OpenAI's 3,000 staffers ...
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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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Musk's xAI reports 64 million monthly Grok users, far behind ChatGPT

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has reached 64 million monthly users for its Grok chatbot - far below OpenAI's ChatGPT with roughly 700 million weekly users, according to the New York Times. Ad Despite ...
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Leading AI chatbots are now twice as likely to spread false information as last year, study finds

According to a Newsguard study, the ten largest generative AI tools now repeat misinformation about current news topics in 35 percent of cases. The spike in misinformation is tied to a major trade-off ...