Nvidia CEO surprised by AMD's deal giving OpenAI a 10% stake

techspot - In an interview on CNBC's Squawk Box, Huang called the arrangement "unique and surprising," given AMD's excitement about its upcoming hardware. "I'm surprised they would give away 10 percent of the company before they even built it," he said. "It's clever…

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OpenAI and Jony Ive face design hurdles in building next-gen AI device

Imran Hussain / ithinkdiff - OpenAI’s hardware collaboration with Jony Ive’s design firm, LoveFrom, is running into technical and creative challenges as the two teams attempt to define the future of AI-driven personal devices. The project, which remains shrouded in secrecy, aims to d…

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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab: Six OpenAI veterans launch Tinker with $2B seed, $12B valuation

Robert Brown / implicator - Six OpenAI veterans including Mira Murati raised $2B at a $12B valuation to build Tinker, an API that democratizes frontier model fine-tuning. The bet: customization matters more than scale. The tension: access is curated, not open.

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Peloton Is Having Its Biggest Hardware Launch in Years

Adrienne So / wired - The company upgrades its entire hardware line and launches a new AI-powered cross training service.

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AI Mode Knows When You Want Images Instead Of Text, And It Might Be A Game-Changing Google Search Feature

bgr - Google's new AI Mode update lets you perform visual searches in Google Search, as Gemini will know when you want to see images instead of reading text.

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OpenAI Plans TikTok-Style App Featuring AI-Generated Videos: Report

Jon Swartz / techstrong - OpenAI is developing a standalone social media application powered by its upcoming Sora 2 video model that will feature exclusively artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content. The app will reportedly feature a vertical video feed with swipe-to-scroll …

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DeepSeek Releases Experimental V3.2 AI Model with ‘Sparse Attention’ to Boost Efficiency

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, an experimental open-source model testing a new, more efficient sparse attention mechanism.The post DeepSeek Releases Experimental V3.2 AI Model with ‘Sparse Attention’ to Boost Efficiency appeared f…

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Google’s newest AI models make robots more intelligent and capable than ever before

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Google LLC’s DeepMind research unit today announced a major update to a couple of its artificial intelligence models, which are designed to make robots more intelligent. With the update, intelligent robots can now perform more complex, multistep tasks and…

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OpenAI expands high-stakes contract for AI compute capacity

OpenAI has expanded its partnership with CoreWeave by signing an additional $6.5 billion contract—pushing the total deal value to over $22 billion. The expanded agreement secures crucial data center compute capacity amid skyrocketing demand for AI-powered applications and reinforces the fierce competition in the tech infrastructure race.

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Databricks will bake OpenAI models into its products in $100M bet to spur enterprise adoption

Rebecca Bellan / techcrunch - Databricks is on the hook to pay at least $100 million to OpenAI in this deal, even if customer usage falls short. It's a bet, but one that Databricks has already hedged.

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Google DeepMind expands frontier AI safety framework to counter manipulation and shutdown risks

Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Alphabet Inc.’s Google DeepMind lab today rolled out the third version of its Frontier Safety Framework to strengthen oversight of powerful artificial intelligence systems that could pose risks if left unchecked. The third iteration of the framework intro…

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xAI releases cheaper, fast language model Grok 4 Fast

Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - xAI has introduced Grok 4 Fast, a lighter version of its flagship model. According to the company, it performs on par with Grok 4 in most tasks but uses about 40 percent less compute. That efficiency also translates into lower costs - xAI says the price p…

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Sorry, but DeepSeek didn’t really train its flagship model for $294,000

Tobias Mann / theregister - Training costs detailed in R1 training report don't include 2.79 million GPU hours that laid its foundation Chinese AI darling DeepSeek's now infamous R1 research report was published in the Journal Nature this week, alongside new information on the compu…

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DeepSeek AI's code quality depends on who it's for (and China's opinion of them)

techspot - According to a report by The Washington Post, CrowdStrike carried out an experiment in which the security firm asked DeepSeek English-language prompt requests for help writing programs.Read Entire Article

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Researchers detail Delphi-2M, an AI model capable of predicting 1,000+ diseases

Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Researchers in Europe have unveiled a new artificial intelligence model that can forecast a person’s risk of developing over 1,000 diseases more than a decade in advance. The generative AI tool, called Delphi-2M after the ancient Greek oracle, was custom-…

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Luma AI launches Ray3, a next-gen cinematic video generation model with built-in reasoning

Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Artificial intelligence startup Luma AI Inc. today announced the launch of Ray3, a powerful text-to-video AI model with built-in reasoning, designed for high-quality cinematic visual production for professionals. Alongside announcement, Luma revealed a pa…

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OpenAI, Google reasoning models achieve gold-level scores in ICPC coding contest

Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - OpenAI and Google LLC today disclosed that their latest reasoning models achieved gold-level performance in a recent coding competition. The ICPC, as the event is called, is the world’s most prestigious college-level programming contest. It draws particip…

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Meet Macroscope: an AI tool for understanding your code base, fixing bugs

Sarah Perez / techcrunch - On Wednesday, former Twitter head of product Kayvon Beykpour announced the launch of Macroscope, an AI system aimed at developers and product leaders that summarizes updates to a codebase and catches bugs, among other things.

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