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Robotics startup Figure AI drops OpenAI partnership to build its own AI models
Figure AI, a startup developing humanoid robots, announced Tuesday it's ending its partnership with OpenAI and will develop its own AI models instead. According to founder Brett Adcock, the company ...
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ByteDance's AI can animate both real people and cartoon characters from a single image
Researchers at TikTok parent company ByteDance have presented OmniHuman-1, a new framework for generating videos from image and audio samples. The new system from TikTok's parent company turns still ...
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Google Deepmind's new AI safety guidelines aim to stop systems from outsmarting humans
Google Deepmind's latest safety guidelines aim to address a challenging question: How do you keep control of AI systems that might try to outsmart their human operators? The framework introduces ...
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OpenAI adds new features to ChatGPT WhatsApp support
OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT's integration with WhatsApp, adding several features that bring it closer to the full browser experience. Users can now send images through WhatsApp chats to provide visual ...
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Getting the right data and telling it to 'wait' turns an LLM into a reasoning model
A new approach shows that carefully selected training data and flexible test-time compute control can help AI models tackle complex reasoning tasks more efficiently. From a pool of nearly 60,000 ...
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Anthropic's AI security system blocks 95% of jailbreak attempts in tests
Anthropic has developed a new security method called "Constitutional Classifiers" to prevent people from tricking AI models into giving harmful responses. The technology specifically targets universal ...
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OpenAI's Deep Research aims to compress hours of online research into minutes
OpenAI has launched "Deep Research," a new Agent feature for ChatGPT that aims to streamline complex research tasks. Initially available to Pro users, the tool promises to compress hours of online ...
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Google X spin-off has created a massive plant database to improve crop development with AI
Google X spinoff Heritable Agriculture combines machine learning and plant genomics to modernize traditional plant breeding and predict outcomes more accurately. Their AI platform examines gene ...
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SoftBank bets big on OpenAI with $3 billion annual commitment and new joint venture
SoftBank and OpenAI announced a major partnership on Monday that includes billions in annual spending and a new joint venture focused on the Japanese market. The deal commits SoftBank to spending $3 ...
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Early users put OpenAI's ChatGPT Operator to the test with real-world tasks
OpenAI's new ChatGPT Operator is getting its first workout from US users who have early access to the tool. While OpenAI's launch event showed basic uses like booking restaurants and planning trips, ...
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Reasoning models like Deepseek-R1 and OpenAI o1 suffer from 'underthinking', study finds
Chinese researchers have discovered why AI models often struggle with complex reasoning tasks: They tend to drop promising solutions too quickly, leading to wasted computing power and lower accuracy.
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Chatbots won't help anyone make weapons of mass destruction, but other AI systems might
Over the past two years, we have seen much written about the “promise and peril” of artificial intelligence (AI). Some have suggested AI systems might aid in the construction of chemical or biological ...