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Coreweave signs multi-year cloud deal with Anthropic to power Claude

Coreweave has signed a multi-year cloud deal with AI startup Anthropic. The agreement will provide Anthropic with compute capacity for its Claude model family starting later this year. Financial ...
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OpenAI halves its Pro price to $100 for heavy Codex users, undercuts Anthropic and Google

OpenAI is reshuffling its subscription tiers with a new $100-per-month Pro plan designed for people who rely heavily on its Codex programming tool. The new Pro tier costs half of what the old $200 ...
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OpenAI reshuffles leadership as health issues force key executives to step back

Several leadership changes are underway at OpenAI. Fidji Simo, CEO of the newly created "AGI Deployment" division, is taking sick leave for several weeks to deal with an autoimmune disease affecting ...
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Alibaba's Qwen team makes AI models think deeper with new algorithm

Alibaba's Qwen team has developed a new training algorithm for reasoning models that assigns different weights to individual tokens based on how much each step influences the subsequent chain of ...
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AI benchmarks systematically ignore how humans disagree, Google study finds

A Google study finds that the standard three to five human raters per test example often aren't enough for reliable AI ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Google now offers Ultra subscribers video generation with Veo 3.1 Lite at no extra credit cost On May 10, Google will drop the current "Veo 3.1 Fast - Lower Priority" option ...
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Read full article about: Overworld's Waypoint-1.5 brings AI-generated 3D worlds to Mac and Windows on consumer hardware AI startup Overworld has released Waypoint-1.5, an update to its real-time world ...
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Claude Code and Cowork now let Anthropic's AI take control of your Mac or Windows desktop

The feature is now available to Pro and Max users for Claude Code and Claude Cowork in the Windows app. According to Anthropic, Claude first tries existing integrations like Slack, calendars, and ...
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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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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 saw through an AI test, cracked the encryption, and grabbed the answers itself

Anthropic's AI model Claude Opus 4.6 independently recognized that it was being tested in a web research benchmark, identified the specific benchmark, and cracked its encrypted answer key. After an ...
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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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"Cat attack" on reasoning model shows how important context engineering is

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