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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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Leaked "Soul Doc" reveals how Anthropic programs Claude’s character

In a lengthy LessWrong post, a user says he managed to extract an internal training document from Claude 4.5 Opus that defines the model's personality and ethical guidelines. Anthropic has confirmed ...
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Nvidia shows new AI models for autonomous driving and speech processing

Nvidia used the NeurIPS conference to debut new AI models for autonomous driving and speech processing. The company introduced Alpamayo-R1, a system designed to handle traffic situations through ...
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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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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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Copyright pressure mounts as OpenAI battles over newspapers and pirate libraries

Nine US regional newspapers have slapped OpenAI and Microsoft with a massive copyright lawsuit, seeking damages that could top $10 billion. At the same time, a federal court has ordered OpenAI to hand ...
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GPT-5 generates the "most impressive LLM output" yet, says OpenAI researcher

OpenAI researcher Sebastien Bubeck says GPT-5's math skills saved him a month of work. In a post on X, Bubeck reports that GPT-5 tackled a highly complex mathematical task for him. The model designed ...
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Pinokio 5.0 turns local machines into personal AI clouds

Pinokio 5.0 wants to make running open-source AI models on your own hardware as easy as using a web app. Developer "cocktail peanut" positions the free tool as a local alternative to cloud platforms ...
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General Agentic Memory tackles context rot and outperforms RAG in memory benchmarks

Memory remains one of the biggest weaknesses for current AI agents. When conversations or tasks drag on, models hit their context window limits or lose track of details—a phenomenon also known as ...
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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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Google plans a 1000x jump in AI compute over the next five years

Google is reportedly gearing up for a massive expansion of its AI infrastructure. Internal documents show the company wants to boost performance by a factor of 1,000 over the next four to five years.