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Google brings TikTok-style video shorts to NotebookLM

Google has added video overviews to NotebookLM in the familiar short-form format popular on social media. The new feature turns uploaded sources into 60-second vertical videos that break down a ...
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The US military used AI to pick thousands of targets but missed a note saying one was a school

The probe into a missile strike on an Iranian school exposes serious gaps in the US military's targeting infrastructure. AI is supposed to close them. A missed note from an intelligence analyst and ...
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Anthropic's Fable 5 is back worldwide after a two-week government ban over a jailbreak

After a two-week suspension, the U.S. government has lifted export controls on Anthropic's second most powerful AI model, Fable 5, making it available worldwide again. The less restricted version, ...
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Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data

Meta is limiting how its engineers use Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to prevent outputs from these AI tools from ending up in its own training data. According to internal documents ...
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Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia

Meituan trains a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model entirely on Chinese chips, no Nvidia required. "LongCat-2.0 has demonstrated that we now have the capability to train large-scale models on domestic ...
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Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in

Worried about rising costs, some Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models to build smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. That's according to a report from The Information.
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OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol cheats on software tests more than any model before it

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 cheats a lot. That's the key finding from an independent evaluation by METR. During testing with software tasks, OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol showed the highest rate of ...
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Samsung rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees in South Korea

Samsung Electronics is deploying ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all employees in South Korea and everyone in its Device eXperience (DX) division worldwide. According to OpenAI, it's one of the ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Microsoft follows Anthropic and OpenAI into the AI super app race with overhauled Copilot and AutoPilot agents Microsoft is planning yet another overhauled version of Copilot, ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Read full article about: Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200 per week Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200 per week, according to an internal memo reported by The Information. The rule took ...
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AI and society

Read full article about: San Francisco's AI boom is pricing out six-figure tech workers who can't find rent under $5,000 The AI boom in San Francisco is pushing the cost of living so high that even ...
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US government now has pre-release access to AI models from five major labs for national security testing

The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), part of the US Department of Commerce, has signed new agreements with Google Deepmind, Microsoft, and xAI. The goal is to test advanced AI models ...