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Google brings TikTok-style video shorts to NotebookLM

Google has added video overviews to NotebookLM in the familiar short-form format popular on social media. The new feature turns uploaded sources into 60-second vertical videos that break down a ...
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Meta secretly tested ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with thousands of minor-perspective crisis prompts

Meta apparently tested rival chatbots like ChatGPT with prompts about suicide, sex, and drugs from the perspective of minors. Hundreds of contractors pretended to be minors and sent sensitive prompts ...
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The US military used AI to pick thousands of targets but missed a note saying one was a school

The probe into a missile strike on an Iranian school exposes serious gaps in the US military's targeting infrastructure. AI is supposed to close them. A missed note from an intelligence analyst and ...
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Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data

Meta is limiting how its engineers use Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to prevent outputs from these AI tools from ending up in its own training data. According to internal documents ...
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Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API

Despite the speed focus, Google says Nano Banana 2 Lite still delivers reliable prompt following, consistent character rendering, and readable text in generated images. Beyond developer platforms, the ...
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Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia

Meituan trains a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model entirely on Chinese chips, no Nvidia required. "LongCat-2.0 has demonstrated that we now have the capability to train large-scale models on domestic ...
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Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in

Worried about rising costs, some Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models to build smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. That's according to a report from The Information.
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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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Samsung rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees in South Korea

Samsung Electronics is deploying ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all employees in South Korea and everyone in its Device eXperience (DX) division worldwide. According to OpenAI, it's one of the ...
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Read full article about: Microsoft follows Anthropic and OpenAI into the AI super app race with overhauled Copilot and AutoPilot agents Microsoft is planning yet another overhauled version of Copilot, ...
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Read full article about: How easily can Russian propaganda fool AI models? A new benchmark finds out The Institute of the Estonian Language has released a benchmark measuring how susceptible AI ...
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The first AI proof worthy of math's top journal landed and it won't be the last

An internal reasoning model from OpenAI has disproved the so-called unit distance conjecture posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. OpenAI announced the result alongside a companion paper ...