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OpenAI cofounder envisions "almost no interface" future where nobody learns software anymore

OpenAI's "Plugins" failed because the AI models weren't good enough. Plugins launched in 2023 to add web search and third-party apps like Gmail to ChatGPT. "That didn't work. It didn't work at all ...
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Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API

Despite the speed focus, Google says Nano Banana 2 Lite still delivers reliable prompt following, consistent character rendering, and readable text in generated images. Beyond developer platforms, the ...
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Anthropic's Fable 5 is back worldwide after a two-week government ban over a jailbreak

After a two-week suspension, the U.S. government has lifted export controls on Anthropic's second most powerful AI model, Fable 5, making it available worldwide again. The less restricted version, ...
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Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data

Meta is limiting how its engineers use Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to prevent outputs from these AI tools from ending up in its own training data. According to internal documents ...
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Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in

Worried about rising costs, some Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models to build smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. That's according to a report from The Information.
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AI and society

Wealthy US families are increasingly sending their kids to AI schools like Alpha School, which combines two hours of AI tutoring with project-based workshops for up to $75,000 a year in tuition. The ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Claude Code and Fable 5 ported the 2003 PC game Command & Conquer to native iOS in "a few hours" A Google Deepmind developer ported "Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour" to ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost Z.ai is already competing with Western models on price with GLM-5.2, and now it's ...
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Jonathan Kemper

Read full article about: Chinese AI video maker Kling raises $2 billion as it gears up for Hong Kong IPO Kuaishou has raised about $2 billion from investors for its AI video division, Kling. The ...
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AI sycophancy makes people less likely to apologize and more likely to double down, study finds

A study published in Science is the first to systematically measure how much AI language models engage in social sycophancy and what it does to people. Across three experiments with 2,405 participants ...
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From GPT-2 to Claude Mythos: The return of AI models deemed 'too dangerous to release'

Seven years ago, OpenAI declared its language model GPT-2 "too dangerous to release." The industry rolled its eyes. Now Anthropic is repeating the move with Claude Mythos Preview, but this time ...
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Anthropic's new benchmark claims Claude can match human experts in bioinformatics

With BioMysteryBench, Anthropic wants to show that Claude can solve real bioinformatics problems at an expert level. The results are promising, but come with important caveats. That's why Anthropic ...