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Microsoft and OpenAI set their own rules for AGI

Microsoft and OpenAI have decided they'll define for themselves what counts as artificial general intelligence (AGI) and when they've supposedly achieved it. The two companies say they'll appoint a ...
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Junk data from X makes large language models lose reasoning skills, researchers show

Researchers have found that large language models permanently lose performance when they are continually trained on trivial online content, especially short and popular social media posts. This type ...
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AI chatbots use different sources than Google search and often cite less-known websites

A detailed study from Ruhr University Bochum and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems highlights how traditional search engines and generative AI systems differ in the way they select sources ...
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OpenAI builds 'AI for Science' team to advance computational discovery

OpenAI is expanding its research efforts with a new program called OpenAI for Science, created to develop AI systems that can support scientific reasoning and speed up discoveries in physics and ...
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Anthropic launches "Skills" so Claude can automatically pick prompts for specialized tasks

Skills are topic-based folders with instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can pull in as needed. Anthropic says skills are stackable, portable, and efficient. They work across Claude apps, ...
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Leading OpenAI researcher announced a GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened

OpenAI researchers recently claimed a major math breakthrough on X, but quickly walked it back after criticism from the community, including Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis, who called out the sloppy ...
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Deepseek's OCR system compresses image-based text so AI can handle much longer documents

Chinese AI company Deepseek has built an OCR system that compresses image-based text documents for language models, aiming to let AI handle much longer contexts without running into memory limits. The ...
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Apple seeks AI researchers for reasoning even as its own study questions current models

Apple recently published a widely discussed study revealing major weaknesses in current reasoning models. Now, the company is hiring for exactly this area. A new opening on Apple's MIND team in ...
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AI researcher Andrej Karpathy says agentic AI is years away from matching industry hype

Andrej Karpathy, former AI researcher at OpenAI and Tesla, is skeptical of the current hype surrounding agent-based AI and large language models. AI researcher Andrej Karpathy believes that the ...
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California passes first U.S. law regulating AI companion chatbots

California has passed the first U.S. law requiring safety measures for AI companion chatbots such as those from OpenAI, Meta, and Character AI. The legislation, known as SB 243, was prompted by ...
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OpenAI could face a billion-dollar fine over claims it used pirated books in AI training

OpenAI could soon face a billion-dollar fine. Authors and publishers suing the company for copyright infringement have uncovered internal messages and emails about the deletion of a dataset containing ...
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Amazon launches AgentCore AI agent platform for all businesses

Amazon has officially launched AgentCore, its platform for running AI agents, making it generally available as part of Amazon Bedrock. AgentCore is designed to help companies quickly integrate AI ...