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Sora 2 Android app launches in more countries, introduces paid generations

OpenAI has launched the Sora app for Android in the US, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. The app is still free, but OpenAI says the service is "completely unsustainable" and ...
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Microsoft and OpenAI set their own rules for AGI

Microsoft and OpenAI have decided they'll define for themselves what counts as artificial general intelligence (AGI) and when they've supposedly achieved it. The two companies say they'll appoint a ...
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Reuters: Deepseek emerges as key AI partner in China’s military research

A Reuters analysis shows that China's People's Liberation Army is systematically integrating artificial intelligence from domestic companies such as Deepseek and Alibaba into military systems.
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A self-rewriting AI from KAUST revives Jürgen Schmidhuber’s vision of a Gödel Machine

A research group at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has unveiled the Huxley-Gödel Machine (HGM), an AI agent that can evolve by rewriting and improving its own code.
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Junk data from X makes large language models lose reasoning skills, researchers show

Researchers have found that large language models permanently lose performance when they are continually trained on trivial online content, especially short and popular social media posts. This type ...
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AI chatbots use different sources than Google search and often cite less-known websites

A detailed study from Ruhr University Bochum and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems highlights how traditional search engines and generative AI systems differ in the way they select sources ...
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OpenAI adds character cameos and video stitching to its Sora generator

OpenAI has rolled out new features for its Sora video generator. Users can now add custom characters - like pets, drawings, or fantasy figures - as “cameos” in their videos and give them names. These ...
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OpenAI and Google and are joining forces with PayPal

Google Cloud has announced a partnership with PayPal to help retailers add AI-powered shopping experiences directly into their digital platforms. According to Google Cloud, the new solution combines ...
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Meta AI's Yann LeCun says he played only an indirect role in the development of Llama models

Meta AI researcher Yann LeCun is distancing himself from the Llama models. In a recent post on X, LeCun said he "has not been involved in any Llama," except for a "very indirect" role in Llama 1 and ...
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AI in war: How artificial intelligence is changing the battlefield

There are four major application areas for AI technology in the military: logistics, reconnaissance, cyberspace, and warfare. In the first three areas, advanced AI applications are already in use or ...
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Microsoft's new Large Action Model can perform some tasks in Word

Microsoft researchers have developed what they're calling a "Large Action Model" (LAM) - an AI that can operate Windows programs on its own. This marks a shift from AIs that just talk about doing ...
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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 ...