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UK judge rules that AI image generator Stable Diffusion is not an "infringing copy"

The High Court in London has thrown out Getty Images' main copyright case against Stability AI, marking a key moment for generative AI companies. The case focused on whether building an AI model from ...
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Tech giants take on record debt to finance the AI race

In the past three months alone, these companies have invested a combined $112 billion. To cover these massive expenses, they're increasingly relying on loans and complex financing strategies. These ...
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Why GPT-4o's "personality" can't be recreated

A developer at OpenAI known as "Roon" on X explains why large language models never behave exactly the same way twice. Roon says a model's "personality" can shift with every training run, even if the ...
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Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 Thinking sets new agentic reasoning records in open-source LLMs

Chinese AI company Moonshot AI has unveiled Kimi K2 Thinking, a new open-source language model the company calls the "best open-source thinking model." Designed as a "thinking agent," K2 Thinking is ...
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Most LLM benchmarks are flawed, casting doubt on AI progress metrics, study finds

A new international study highlights major problems with large language model (LLM) benchmarks, showing that most current evaluation methods have serious flaws. After reviewing 445 benchmark papers ...
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German court deepens the split on AI and copyright with its latest ruling

Just days after a major copyright ruling in the UK, a Munich court took a sharply different path, highlighting how unsettled the rules around AI and copyrighted content still are. Late last year, GEMA ...
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Google's Gemini Deep Research feature now taps into Gmail, Drive, and Chat

Google has started rolling out Gemini Deep Research, a new AI-powered tool that can pull information not just from the web, but also from users' Gmail, Drive, and Chat accounts. Users can choose ...
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A self-rewriting AI from KAUST revives Jürgen Schmidhuber’s vision of a Gödel Machine

A research group at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has unveiled the Huxley-Gödel Machine (HGM), an AI agent that can evolve by rewriting and improving its own code.
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Sandbar claims its finger-worn AI device is the new 'mouse for voice'

Another startup is taking a shot at AI hardware. This time with a voice-controlled wearable ring designed for everyday use. US-based startup Sandbar has unveiled the Stream Ring, a device that turns ...
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OpenAI faces questions over calls for government support

Some on social media—including AI commentator Gary Marcus—have pointed out that OpenAI's recent letter to the White House appears to contradict CEO Sam Altman's claim that OpenAI is not seeking ...
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Sora 2 Android app launches in more countries, introduces paid generations

OpenAI has launched the Sora app for Android in the US, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. The app is still free, but OpenAI says the service is "completely unsustainable" and ...
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Trump advisors are pushing a regulation targeting what they call "woke" AI models in the tech sector

The Trump administration is preparing a regulation that would force AI companies with federal contracts to maintain strict political neutrality. According to the Wall Street Journal, the move targets ...