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Finding the limits of pretraining and quantization: New EU draft guidelines for regulating top models

Google AI detects wildfires from satellite images. Baidu shows off image RAG, no-code tools, and smart glasses. ChatGPT apps link up with desktop coding tools. New LoRA tools improve image models’ consistency and text generation.
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OpenAI and Google’s fine-tuning disappoints: Alibaba’s latest Qwen open source code model matches GPT-4

MLPerf tests show Nvidia’s Blackwell chips excel at training models. Google releases AlphaFold 3 code and parameters (with restrictions). DeepSeek’s two-way image model gets even better. Judge tosses copyright lawsuit against OpenAI.
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Art team sells robot’s painting for $1.1 million: TSMC stops shipping advanced chips to China

FrontierMath’s hard math problems baffle models. Nvidia partners with Hugging Face’s robotics platform. Mistral offers multilingual text moderation. Grok teases free access for New Zealand’s X users.
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SWE-Kit helps developers build their own assistants: New Tencent open model outperforms Llama 3 405B

Oasis builds interactive Minecraft-style games in real-time. Microsoft releases system to coordinate AI agents. OpenAI’s new predicted outputs feature speeds up generation. GitHub launches Spark, a platform to build and host micro-apps.
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Python overtakes JavaScript as top programming language on GitHub: Robots finally have enough training data to fold your laundry

ChatGPT now includes an AI search engine. Upgrading data centers leaves behind too much trash. OmniParser works with vision models to read computer screens. Gallup poll shows most big companies’ workforces haven’t embraced AI.
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What counts as an open source AI model?: Claude, Gemini, and o1 models added to GitHub Copilot

Researchers find hallucinations in Whisper transcriptions. White House directs how security agencies should use AI. Jailbreaking LLM-enabled robots could have devastating effects. Google’s synthetic podcast tool Illuminate specializes in research papers.
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Claude can now write and run JavaScript in chat: Cohere’s embedding model update adds images as well as text

Allegro, an open-source video generation model from Rhymes AI. Meta’s new quantized versions of Llama 3.2 1B and 3B. SynthID text, a new text watermarking tool. Meta’s Lingua and Self-Taught Evaluator, two model-training tools.
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Anthropic updates Claude, adds computer agent API: Stable Diffusion 3.5 offers free image generation for most users

Spirit LM, an open-weights speech model from Meta. IBM’s open-source, 8–billion parameter Granite 3.0 8B Instruct. Google expands its music sandbox for pros and amateurs. A new leaderboard for smaller, quantized language models.
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DeepSeek’s Janus reads and generates images: SambaNova and Gradio team up for fast AI webapps

A new safety investigation of Tesla’s self-driving tech. Perplexity adds collaborative spaces and internal search. Nvidia’s new Nemotron model scores big on benchmarks. Telegram’s subculture of explicit deepfake generators.
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Mistral’s Ministral family tops other local models: Open AI’s Swarm orchestrates teams of agents

NotebookLM lets you add prompts for better podcasts. Apple researchers doubt whether current LLMs can reason. OpenAI tests ChatGPT for gender and racial bias. Perplexity squares off with The New York Times.
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AI models can generate code, but how well do they understand it?: Falcon’s Mamba model outperforms transformers

The MI325X, AMD’s answer to NVIDIA’s H200. Research on new language model architectures from Microsoft. Mathcoder 2 makes open models better at mathematical reasoning. An AI system that recreates pianists’ hand movements.
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Pyramid Flow takes a new approach to video: Gradio update makes it easier to build powerful AI webapps

Anthropic makes batch processing cheaper. A new leaderboard measures models’ finance performance. Aria introduces an new open multimodal MoE model. SETI’s new AI model helps search for life in outer space.
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Apple’s new models punch above their weight: Liquid explores a new multimodal modal architecture

Copilot may lead to more bugs than productivity gains. OpenAI prunes its Whisper model for faster completions. A new study measures top AI companies’ redteaming efforts. An open-source CLI coding assistant, o1-engineer.
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Emu3 claims “next-token prediction is all you need”: Black Forest updates FLUX image model, adds a developer API

OpenAI introduces new canvas UI for editing with ChatGPT. Google’s chip design model gets a new (but familiar) name. Microsoft launches some of the features it promised with Recall. Aider wants to give the right models the right jobs.
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Nemotron models boost Llama’s speed but maintain accuracy: NotebookLM “reads” audio and video

Hacking ChatGPT’s long-term memory function. U.S. trade commission targets companies who lie about AI. A new OpenAI model for screening text and images. Apple, Meta, and others hold off on AI Pact
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