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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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Germany's cybersecurity agency issues new guidelines to protect LLMs from persistent threats

The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warns that even top AI providers are struggling to defend against so-called evasion attacks targeting language models. Ad In these attacks, ...
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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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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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Google's Gemini API now supports file search with custom data

Google has added a File Search Tool to the Gemini API, allowing developers to query their own documents using a vector database. The tool manages storing files, splitting them up, searching for ...
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Facing lawsuits, OpenAI rewires ChatGPT for safer teen use

OpenAI published a "Teen Safety Blueprint" to better protect young users from harm. The new framework follows incidents where ChatGPT allegedly failed to help users in mental distress. OpenAI has ...
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Six AI all-stars weigh in on hype, hope, and the reality behind the field

Six of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence took the stage at the Queen Elizabeth Prize 2025 ceremony to weigh in on recent breakthroughs, ongoing challenges, and whether current AI ...
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Snap partners with Perplexity AI in a $400 million deal to bring AI search to Snapchat by 2026

Snap has signed a $400 million partnership with Perplexity AI to make its AI search engine the default option inside Snapchat starting in 2026. In addition to the existing "My AI" chatbot, Perplexity ...
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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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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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Microsoft and OpenAI set their own rules for AGI

Microsoft and OpenAI have decided they'll define for themselves what counts as artificial general intelligence (AGI) and when they've supposedly achieved it. The two companies say they'll appoint a ...
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Junk data from X makes large language models lose reasoning skills, researchers show

Researchers have found that large language models permanently lose performance when they are continually trained on trivial online content, especially short and popular social media posts. This type ...