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U.S. Tightens Grip on AI Chips: U.S. makes new rules for AI chip export rules to China, launches Nvidia investigation
The U.S. government escalated its long-running effort to block China’s access to cutting-edge AI hardware.
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Machine Learning Research
OpenAI Launches Cost-Effective Alternatives: OpenAI replaces GPT-4.5 with GPT-4.1 Family, plus o3 and o4-mini, new models focused on reasoning and coding
OpenAI refreshed its roster of models and scheduled the largest, most costly one for removal.
Business
The Fall and Rise of Sam Altman: Inside Sam Altman’s brief ouster from OpenAI
A behind-the-scenes account provides new details about the abrupt firing and reinstatement of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in November 2023.
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Open Standard for Tool Use and Data Access Gains Momentum: OpenAI adopts Model Context Protocol to boost LLM tool integration
OpenAI embraced Model Context Protocol, providing powerful support for an open standard that connects large language models to tools and data.
Machine Learning Research
Llama’s Mixture of Vision-Language Experts: Meta releases Llama 4 models, claims edge over AI competitors
Meta updated its popular open-weights models, claiming performance superior to closed competitors in three size classes.
Tech & Society
Scraping the Web? Beware the Maze: Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth traps scrapers with decoy pages
Bots that scrape websites for AI training data often ignore do-not-crawl requests. Now web publishers can enforce such appeals by luring scrapers to AI-generated decoy pages.
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Some AI-Generated Works Are Copyrightable: U.S. Copyright Office says that no new laws are needed for AI-generated works
The United States Copyright Office determined that existing laws are sufficient to decide whether a given AI-generated work is protected by copyright, making additional legislation unnecessary.
Tech & Society
Judge Upholds Copyright in AI Training Case: U.S. court rejects fair use defense in Thomson Reuters AI lawsuit
A United States court delivered a major ruling that begins to answer the question whether, and under what conditions, training an AI system on copyrighted material is considered fair use that doesn’t require permission.
Machine Learning Research
Compact Reasoning: QwQ-32B challenges DeepSeek-R1 and other larger reasoning models
Most models that have learned to reason via reinforcement learning were huge models. A much smaller model now competes with them.
Tech & Society
Amazon’s Next-Gen Voice Assistant: Alexa+ adds generative AI and agents, using Claude and other models
Amazon announced Alexa+, a major upgrade to its long-running voice assistant.
Machine Learning Research
Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode
Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet implements a hybrid reasoning approach that lets users decide how much thinking they want the model to do before it renders a response.
Machine Learning Research
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 Goes Big: OpenAI releases GPT-4.5, its most powerful non-reasoning model and maybe its last
OpenAI launched GPT-4.5, which may be its last non-reasoning model.