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Tencent releases Hy3 open-source model that allegedly matches models up to five times its active size

Tencent has officially released its AI model Hy3. The model uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 295 billion total parameters. Of those, 21 billion are active at any given time, plus 3.8 ...
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Meta follows SpaceX's playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare AI compute to outside customers

Meta is building its own cloud business to sell spare AI compute to outside customers. With planned AI investments of up to $145 billion this year alone, the same question that came up with xAI now ...
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Anthropic gets US approval to bring back Claude Mythos 5

The US government has approved Anthropic to redeploy Claude Mythos 5, according to the company. The model is Anthropic's most powerful AI model for cybersecurity and can now be used again by US ...
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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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Half of Claude users say AI can already handle half their work according to Anthropic survey

About half of Claude users say AI can already handle half or more of their work. That's according to a survey of roughly 9,700 Claude users (Chat, Cowork, Code) by Anthropic. About 33 percent see AI ...
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The companies most likely to automate your job are now funding a $1 billion program to retrain you

Former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has founded a nonpartisan organization called "Raise Us" to prepare American workers for an AI-driven economy. The goal: raise one billion dollars for ...
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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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AI in practice

OpenAI’s GPT-Live can listen and speak at the same time using a full-duplex architecture. Complex questions get handed off to GPT-5.5 in the background, which drastically improves response quality.
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: OpenAI staffer maps out which of GPT-5.6 Sol's five reasoning levels fits which task complexity OpenAI employee Vaibhav Srivastav explains when each of GPT-5.6 Sol's five ...
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Jonathan Kemper

Read full article about: Chinese AI video maker Kling raises $2 billion as it gears up for Hong Kong IPO Kuaishou has raised about $2 billion from investors for its AI video division, Kling. The ...
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Deepfakes: How it all began - and where it could lead us

AI-faked images and videos - so-called deepfakes - have developed rapidly in recent years. Here, we trace the history and describe the most important milestones. What do all the people in the cover ...
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Dario Amodei's new essay reads like a Cold War playbook for the AI age

Anthropic publishes a sweeping essay and two policy frameworks. The company calls for binding audits of frontier models and paints a picture of AI as a strategic weapon wielded by nation-states.