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World Powers Move to Lighten AI Regulation: Global AI summit reveals deep divisions on regulation and governance

The latest international AI summit exposed deep divisions between major world powers regarding AI regulations.
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Musk Complicates OpenAI’s Plan: Elon Musk’s $97.4B bid for OpenAI rejected, fueling AI power struggle

Elon Musk and a group of investors made an unsolicited bid to buy the assets of the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating the AI powerhouse’s future plans.
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Mobile Apps to Order: Replit’s agent-powered mobile app expands to full app development

Replit, an AI-driven integrated development environment, updated its mobile app to generate further mobile apps to order.
AI model comparison on reasoning and test-time compute across math, science, and coding benchmarks.
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Grok 3 Scales Up: Grok 3, xAI’s new model family, improves on its predecessors, adds reasoning

xAI’s new model family suggests that devoting more computation to training remains a viable path to building more capable AI.
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Google Joins AI Peers In Military Work: Google revises AI principles, lifting ban on weapons and surveillance applications

Google revised its AI principles, reversing previous commitments to avoid work on weapons, surveillance, and other military applications beyond non-lethal uses like communications, logistics, and medicine.
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Reasoning in High Gear: o3-mini, a faster, more affordable reasoning model for coding, math, and science

OpenAI introduced a successor to its o1 models that’s faster, less expensive, and especially strong in coding, math, and science.
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White House Orders Muscular AI Policy: U.S. shifts AI strategy to remove regulations and reinforce global leadership

Under a new president, the United States reversed its approach to AI regulation, seeking global dominance by reducing restrictions.
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Computer Use Gains Momentum: OpenAI’s Operator automates online tasks with a new AI agent

OpenAI introduced an AI agent that performs simple web tasks on a user’s behalf.
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Texas Moves to Regulate AI: Texas introduces landmark bill to regulate AI development and use

Lawmakers in the U.S. state of Texas are considering stringent AI regulation.
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Humanoid Robot Price Break: Unitree and EngineAI showcase affordable humanoid robots

Chinese robot makers Unitree and EngineAI showed off relatively low-priced humanoid robots that could bring advanced robotics closer to everyday applications.
Bar chart comparing accuracy and percentile scores of DeepSeek models and OpenAI models across benchmarks.
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DeepSeek Sharpens Its Reasoning: DeepSeek-R1, an affordable rival to OpenAI’s o1

A new open model rivals OpenAI’s o1, and it’s free to use or modify.
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U.S. Moves to Expand AI Export Restrictions: New U.S. rules limit AI tech access worldwide, reshaping global markets

The United States proposed limits on exports of AI technology that would dramatically expand previous restrictions, creating a new international hierarchy for access to advanced chips and models.
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Alternatives to Acquisitions: Tech giants forge strategic partnerships to secure talent and technology without acquisitions

Big AI companies found creative ways to gain cutting-edge technology and talent without buying startups.
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Prices Tumble: AI price wars drive costs down as competition heats up

Fierce competition among model makers and cloud providers drove down the price of access to state-of-the-art models.
o1 Family Benchmarks comparing pass rates across AIME, Codeforces, and GPQA.
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Higher Reasoning: OpenAI debuts o1 and pro mode for $200/month

OpenAI launched not only its highly anticipated o1 model but also an operating mode that enables the model to deliver higher performance — at a hefty price.
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