Switzerland's new open-source AI model Apertus tackles what kills 95% of AI projects: lack of transparency. Full visibility into code and training data promises to solve bias, compliance headaches, and corporate trust issues.
Warp challenges "hands-off" agent coding with human-in-the-loop approach, charging $200/month for enterprise tier. While competitors push automation, Warp bets on oversight—real-time code review and mid-flight steering as agents work.
Anthropic's $1.5B settlement with authors establishes first pricing benchmark for AI training data—$3,000 per pirated book. Court ruling split training rights from acquisition methods, reshaping how tech giants source content.
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Google's new AI reads damaged Roman inscriptions in seconds, work that takes historians days. The system found connections in ancient texts that human experts missed, potentially transforming how we study the past.
Trump wants AI companies to prove their systems are "neutral" to win government contracts worth $100+ billion annually. But researchers say politically neutral AI is technically impossible - every system contains human bias.
Trump ditches Biden's AI safety rules for a deregulation push aimed at beating China. The 28-page plan cuts regulations, fast-tracks data centers, and eliminates "woke bias" from government AI systems. Industry cheers, critics worry about risks.
Chinese hackers breached America's nuclear weapons agency via Microsoft SharePoint flaws, part of a campaign hitting 400+ organizations worldwide. No classified data stolen, but shows how zero-day exploits can reach sensitive infrastructure.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Google's AI summaries cut website clicks in half. Publishers are dying while users
Alibaba just released two massive AI models claiming to outperform Claude and GPT-4, but the launch comes days after cheating allegations on benchmarks. The company is betting everything on autonomous AI systems that work independently.
Proton launches Lumo, an AI assistant that promises zero logging and end-to-end encryption—directly challenging ChatGPT's data-hungry model. Part of Europe's €100M bet on tech independence from US and Chinese platforms.
New study tracking 900 users proves Google's AI summaries cut website clicks nearly in half. Only 1% click citation links. Publishers lose traffic while Wikipedia, Reddit, YouTube dominate. The web's economic model may be breaking.
OpenAI's $500B Stargate partnership with SoftBank collapsed after six months of disputes. Zero data centers built. Now OpenAI scrambles for $40B in fresh funding to go it alone, signing costly deals that dwarf their revenue.
AI systems can read thousands of pages and understand complex relationships, but ask them to write something equally sophisticated back? They choke. New research identifies this "comprehension-generation asymmetry" and introduces Context Engineering as the solution.
Philadelphia robotics startup Asylon raised $26M after nearly dying in 2021 when their demo drone crashed the night before a Fortune 500 showcase. Now their robot security guards patrol facilities nationwide.
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