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Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for training on nearly 100,000 articles without permission

Encyclopedia Britannica and its subsidiary Merriam-Webster have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in federal court in Manhattan. The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI used nearly 100,000 online articles, ...
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Hollywood copyright complaints force Bytedance to shelve global launch of AI video generator Seedance 2.0

Bytedance has reportedly shelved the global launch of its AI video model Seedance 2.0 after a wave of copyright complaints from major Hollywood studios, a sign of just how convincing AI-generated ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Popular AI proxy LiteLLM got hacked with malware that spreads through Kubernetes clusters The open-source library LiteLLM, a widely used proxy for AI language model APIs, has ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Read full article about: As demand for realistic AI training grows, Deeptune raises $43 million to build simulated workplaces Andreessen Horowitz invests $43 million in Deeptune, a startup that trains ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Google AI Studio now lets you vibe code real-time multiplayer games Google has launched a new vibe coding feature in Google AI Studio that lets non-programmers and programmers ...
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 saw through an AI test, cracked the encryption, and grabbed the answers itself

Anthropic's AI model Claude Opus 4.6 independently recognized that it was being tested in a web research benchmark, identified the specific benchmark, and cracked its encrypted answer key. After an ...
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Adobe's "MultiFoley" AI creates synchronized sound effects for video

Adobe Research and University of Michigan researchers have created an AI system that generates Foley sounds—the custom sound effects added to films and videos during post-production. The system, ...
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Former OpenAI researcher explains what "Ask the AI" really means

Andrej Karpathy, former OpenAI researcher and head of AI at Tesla, explains that when people "ask an AI," they're actually interacting with averaged responses from human data labelers, not a magical ...
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Meta Neuroscientist King: "Some of the concepts like reasoning may need to be re-evaluated"

The neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King leads the Brain & AI team in Meta’s AI division. In an interview with The Decoder, he discusses the connection between AI and neuroscience, the challenges of ...
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says self-claiming AGI is "nonsensical benchmark hacking"

AI labs like OpenAI aim to create "artificial general intelligence," general-purpose AI systems that will take over much of cognitive work. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls for real growth, not ...
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AI assistants fail basic fact-checking in BBC news study

A systematic evaluation of leading AI chatbots reveals widespread problems with accuracy and reliability when handling news content. The study, conducted by the BBC, tested ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, ...
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DeepseekMath-V2 is Deepseek's latest attempt to pop the US AI bubble

Chinese startup Deepseek reports its new DeepseekMath-V2 model has reached gold medal status at the Math Olympiad, keeping the company in tight competition with Western AI labs. According to Deepseek, ...