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OpenAI considers ads: Cohere’s new search model

U.S. shuts down more chips and tech to China. Claude’s Google Docs integration. Adobe’s MultiFoley generates sound for video. Canadian media companies sue OpenAI.

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Qwen’s QwQ-32B-Preview packs a big punch: Anthropic’s MCP, an open-source data protocol for agents

Jina updates CLIP embedding model. OLMo2 delivers state-of-the-art performance for smaller open models. Nvidia’s Fugatto produces a wide range of sounds. U.S. antitrust regulator takes a hard look at Microsoft.

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Cobot’s Proxie robot tackles warehouse tasks: VBench++, a new benchmark suite for AI video

Anthropic and Amazon strengthen their ties. Windsurf blends copilots with agents in one IDE. Mistral introduces Pixtral Large to its APIs and chat platform. H’s first product launch is a business agent.

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DeepSeek’s R1 seeks to match OpenAI’s o1: Microsoft will train future model on big publisher’s books

Flux’s new image tools compete with Adobe and other photo apps. Qwen speeds up its 2.5 model while boosting context window. Rabbit launches Teach Mode in beta for its R1 devices. Banks embrace third-party AI, but want to control their data.

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Finding the limits of pretraining and quantization: New EU draft guidelines for regulating top models

Google AI detects wildfires from satellite images. Baidu shows off image RAG, no-code tools, and smart glasses. ChatGPT apps link up with desktop coding tools. New LoRA tools improve image models’ consistency and text generation.

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OpenAI and Google’s fine-tuning disappoints: Alibaba’s latest Qwen open source code model matches GPT-4

MLPerf tests show Nvidia’s Blackwell chips excel at training models. Google releases AlphaFold 3 code and parameters (with restrictions). DeepSeek’s two-way image model gets even better. Judge tosses copyright lawsuit against OpenAI.

A futuristic robot painting on a canvas, positioned similarly to a young artist sitting in a bright art studio.

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Art team sells robot’s painting for $1.1 million: TSMC stops shipping advanced chips to China

FrontierMath’s hard math problems baffle models. Nvidia partners with Hugging Face’s robotics platform. Mistral offers multilingual text moderation. Grok teases free access for New Zealand’s X users.

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SWE-Kit helps developers build their own assistants: New Tencent open model outperforms Llama 3 405B

Oasis builds interactive Minecraft-style games in real-time. Microsoft releases system to coordinate AI agents. OpenAI’s new predicted outputs feature speeds up generation. GitHub launches Spark, a platform to build and host micro-apps.

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Python overtakes JavaScript as top programming language on GitHub: Robots finally have enough training data to fold your laundry

ChatGPT now includes an AI search engine. Upgrading data centers leaves behind too much trash. OmniParser works with vision models to read computer screens. Gallup poll shows most big companies’ workforces haven’t embraced AI.

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What counts as an open source AI model?: Claude, Gemini, and o1 models added to GitHub Copilot

Researchers find hallucinations in Whisper transcriptions. White House directs how security agencies should use AI. Jailbreaking LLM-enabled robots could have devastating effects. Google’s synthetic podcast tool Illuminate specializes in research papers.

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Claude can now write and run JavaScript in chat: Cohere’s embedding model update adds images as well as text

Allegro, an open-source video generation model from Rhymes AI. Meta’s new quantized versions of Llama 3.2 1B and 3B. SynthID text, a new text watermarking tool. Meta’s Lingua and Self-Taught Evaluator, two model-training tools.

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Anthropic updates Claude, adds computer agent API: Stable Diffusion 3.5 offers free image generation for most users

Spirit LM, an open-weights speech model from Meta. IBM’s open-source, 8–billion parameter Granite 3.0 8B Instruct. Google expands its music sandbox for pros and amateurs. A new leaderboard for smaller, quantized language models.