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Machine learning engineers analyzing real-time hurricane data across multiple screens in a high-tech control room.

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Predicting cyclones using neural networks: o3-pro trades speed for accuracy in code, science

Video game performers’ new AI deal. Meta’s new robotics world model. Mistral’s multilingual reasoning models. An open-source template for research agents.

Office team analyzing data and reports, with computers displaying graphs and charts in a modern workspace setting.

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Gemini 2.5 Pro June update now available in preview: Windsurf users seek alternatives to Claude 4 models

Mistral’s new integrated, fine-tunable coding tool. ChatGPT’s connectors, both official and DIY. Nvidia’s new small, open OCR and document analysis model. Reddit’s lawsuit against Anthropic over alleged scraping.

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How AI models can encourage bad behavior: Edge Gallery deploys mobile models without internet connection

BAGEL, an open ByteDance model that can read and write images and text. Perplexity’s Labs, a new tool to generate research artifacts. A database security failure in Lovable’s coding platform. MIT Technology Review’s new report on AI’s energy footprint.

Office workers read newspapers and use computers with AI robots, showcasing a modern, tech-driven workspace.

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DeepSeek-R1 regains open-weights crown: Researchers find critical vulnerability in GitHub MCP server

NLWeb, an open-source framework to bring AI chat to any website. FLUX.1 Kontext challenges GPT-Image with image generation and editing. LMEval, a new open-source suite for iteratively benchmarking models. Amazon’s new content deal with The New York Times.

Meteorologists analyze hurricane data on computer screens, focusing on storm patterns and forecasts in a modern office.

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Veo 3 adds synchronized audio to realistic video: Linux researcher uses LLMs to find security holes

A new earth system model that can predict weather disasters. Google’s speedy diffusion-based text generation model. Claude 4’s new system prompts for power users. Microsoft’s AI agent marketplace for developers.

Woman coding on multiple monitors in modern office, colleague observing. Software development, teamwork, technology workspace.

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All about Claude’s new Opus and Sonnet: Google’s subscriber-first features and models from I/O

The new device OpenAI is building with Jony Ive. Mistral’s new open-weight software engineering model. Falcon-Arabic, a new 7B model that excels in multiple regional dialects. Google’s new multimodal model for mobile devices.

Scientists in lab coats analyze molecular structure on computer, collaborating in a modern laboratory environment.

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Radiologists use AI to automate tasks, not jobs: Economists say data for landmark paper was flawed

U.S., China spar over Huawei chips. Nvidia makes it easier to build custom data centers. Meta’s Open Molecules project hopes to revolutionize chemistry. New research examines language models’ win rates in games.

Man using smartphone for contactless payment in a modern café; people working on laptops in the background.

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DeepSeek outlines V3 training, hardware limits: OpenAI’s Codex now assists with code in the cloud

Windsurf introduces SWE-1 family of coding/engineering models. Stripe adapts transformer architecture for versatile payments model. Alibaba’s top video model gets another boost. U.S. Republicans make an end run around local AI regulations.

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Report says common AI model training practices may violate current U.S. copyright law: OpenAI’s CLIP topped by new open-source vision encoders

Microsoft joins Google’s Agent2Agent project. Police and governments circumvent face-tracking laws. OpenAI and Microsoft reportedly seek a new deal. Researchers use RL to train coding models starting with zero data.

Man designing a fun tech website on a desktop computer in a cozy modern home office.

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Updated Gemini Pro model builds interactive websites from prompts: OpenAI unveils new restructuring plan

Mistral’s new medium-sized language model. Claude developers gain access to web search. Alibaba uses RL to teach LLMs to search better. OpenAI’s plans to build AI infrastructure worldwide.

Student holding smartphone in classroom with labeled objects in English and Spanish like chalkboard, desk, and projector screen.

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Google’s latest language-learning project: DeepWiki, a new tool to learn unfamiliar codebases

DeepSeek’s new mathematical model. Meta’s latest ChatGPT competitor. A new approach to generating extended-length video. AI shopping gets online payment giants’ blessing.

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Alibaba outdoes itself with latest open models: Chatbot Arena faces accusations of unequal access

Microsoft’s Phi-4 updates add reasoning to small models. OpenAI rolls back cloying update to GPT-4o, explains what went wrong. Amazon debuts its largest multimodal teacher/agent model yet. Meta partners with fast inference providers for new official API.