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Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises one billion dollars for "spatial intelligence"

World Labs, the AI startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has raised one billion dollars in a new funding round. Backers include Autodesk, Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and AMD, according to a blog ...
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Anthropic raises $30 billion, pushing valuation to $380 billion

Anthropic has closed a $30 billion Series G funding round, bringing the AI company's post-money valuation to $380 billion. The round was led by GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, and U.S.
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Context files for coding agents often don't help - and may even hurt performance

ETH Zurich researchers found that auto-generated context files like AGENTS.md don't help coding agents in most cases - they worsened performance in five out of eight test settings and drove up ...
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Google and OpenAI complain about distillation attacks that clone their AI models on the cheap

Google and OpenAI are complaining about data theft—yes, you read that right. According to Google, Gemini was hit with a massive cloning attempt through distillation, with a single campaign firing over ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview tops Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at less than half the cost of its rivals Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads the Artificial ...
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Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses now record your voice by default to train Meta's AI models

Meta has updated its U.S. privacy policy for the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to enable automatic voice recording by default. These recordings can now be used to train Meta AI and other Meta products.
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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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Bill Gates does not expect GPT-5 to be much better than GPT-4

The buzz around generative AI is huge, in part because the technology has evolved so rapidly in such a short time. Can it keep up the pace? In an interview with the German business newspaper ...
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns users not to trust ChatGPT agent with sensitive or personal data

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning users not to rely too heavily on the new ChatGPT agent, especially when it comes to tasks involving sensitive or personal data. But Altman says users shouldn't assume ...
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Reflection unveils Asimov: an AI agent built to track every step of software development

Reflection AI, a startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, has introduced a new AI agent called Asimov. Unlike other coding assistants, Asimov is designed to analyze not just code, but ...
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ChatGPT quietly switches to a stricter language model when users submit emotional prompts

OpenAI's ChatGPT automatically switches to a more restrictive language model when users submit emotional or personalized prompts, but users aren't notified when this happens. OpenAI is currently ...
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Andrej Karpathy declares the war on AI homework lost and urges schools to stop policing it

Andrej Karpathy, former OpenAI researcher, says technical measures to detect AI-generated homework have not worked and there is currently no reliable way to prove if AI was used. He advocates for ...