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Project Gumdrop: OpenAI's first AI gadget could send handwritten notes to ChatGPT

OpenAI has reportedly shifted production of its first AI hardware device from Luxshare to Foxconn. The company wants to avoid manufacturing in China, according to Taiwanese business newspaper Economic ...
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Moonshot AI closes $500 million Series C to fund Kimi-K3 development and expand computing capacity

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, the company behind the Kimi chatbot, has closed a $500 million Series C funding round. The deal values the company at $4.3 billion, according to an exclusive report ...
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LLMs could serve as world models for training AI agents, study finds

An international team of researchers has tested whether large language models can serve as world models: internal simulators that predict outcomes when an AI agent takes a specific action. After ...
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Resemble AI drops Chatterbox Turbo, an open-source text-to-speech model that clones voices in five seconds

AI startup Resemble AI is taking on Elevenlabs with "Chatterbox Turbo," an open text-to-speech model that can clone voices from just five seconds of audio. The company claims its new model beats both ...
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OpenAI seeks new "Head of Preparedness" for AI risks like cyberattacks and mental health

OpenAI is hiring a Head of Preparedness. The position focuses on safety risks posed by AI models. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman points to the now well-documented effects of AI models on mental health as one ...
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DeepseekMath-V2 is Deepseek's latest attempt to pop the US AI bubble

Chinese AI start-up Deepseek has introduced DeepseekMath-V2, an AI model that achieves gold medal-level results in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). The model can evaluate and iteratively ...
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OpenAI launches group chats in ChatGPT worldwide

Update: OpenAI has now made the group chat feature in ChatGPT available worldwide for all logged-in users on the Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans. OpenAI is testing a group chat feature for ChatGPT in ...
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Leading OpenAI researcher announced a GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened

OpenAI researchers claimed or suggested that GPT-5 had solved unsolved math problems, but in reality, the model only found known results that were unfamiliar to the operator of erdosproblems.com.
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AI researcher Andrej Karpathy says agentic AI is years away from matching industry hype

Andrej Karpathy believes that current agent-based AI systems are overestimated and face clear limitations, particularly in areas such as reasoning, handling multiple types of input, memory, and ...
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OpenAI builds 'AI for Science' team to advance computational discovery

OpenAI has launched "OpenAI for Science," a program led by Kevin Weil aimed at developing AI systems to enhance scientific reasoning and accelerate discoveries in fields like physics and mathematics.
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Anthropic launches "Skills" so Claude can automatically pick prompts for specialized tasks

Anthropic is launching "Skills", a modular feature for its AI assistant Claude that allows it to perform specialized tasks more efficiently by automatically selecting and loading the necessary ...
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OpenAI has acquired AI finance startup "Roi"

OpenAI has acquired the AI finance startup Roi, known for offering investment advice based on individual financial data.