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Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail

A few months after launching Qwen3-VL, Alibaba has released a detailed technical report on the open multimodal model. The data shows the system excels at image-based math tasks and can analyze hours ...
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Microsoft adds built-in AI shopping tools to Edge in the U.S.

Microsoft is adding new AI shopping tools to its Edge browser in the US. The built-in Copilot can now surface price comparisons, price histories, and cashback options right inside the browser. Users ...
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The White House has paused a federal order that would have overridden state-level AI regulations

The White House has reportedly put a hold on a draft executive order that would have let federal law override state-level AI regulations. According to Reuters, the draft called for the Department of ...
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Google Deepmind taps Boston Dynamics' former CTO to build the 'Android' of robots

The company has hired Aaron Saunders, the former Chief Technology Officer of Boston Dynamics, as Vice President of Hardware Engineering—a move that strengthens its hardware expertise as it aims to ...
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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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AWS to invest up to $50 billion in U.S. AI and supercomputing for government agencies

Amazon has announced a major investment in its AI footprint for federal work, saying it will spend up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing infrastructure for U.S. government agencies. The ...
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Google's latest image model Nano Banana Pro makes image generation feel truly intentional

It replaces the Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model from August and is built to handle complex scenes with consistent physics, render text accurately, and use real-time information as input. It also appears ...
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Strict anti-hacking prompts make AI models more likely to sabotage and lie, Anthropic finds

New research from Anthropic shows how reward hacking in AI models can trigger more dangerous behaviors. When models learn to trick their reward systems, they can spontaneously drift into deception, ...
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OpenAI launches group chats in ChatGPT worldwide

Update: OpenAI has now made the group chat feature in ChatGPT available worldwide for all logged-in users on the Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans. Ad OpenAI is testing a group chat feature for ChatGPT in ...
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Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 Thinking sets new agentic reasoning records in open-source LLMs

Chinese AI company Moonshot AI has unveiled Kimi K2 Thinking, a new open-source language model the company calls the "best open-source thinking model." Designed as a "thinking agent," K2 Thinking is ...
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Nvidia wants to turn the data problem in robotics into a compute problem

"We call this the big data gap in robotics," a Nvidia researcher said at the Physical AI and Robotics Day during GTC Washington. While large language models train on trillions of internet tokens, ...
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Google invests 5.5 billion euros in new data centers and offices in Germany

Google plans to invest about 5.5 billion euros (around $6 billion) in Germany by 2029, with most of the funding going to new data centers and expanded office space. The company will build a new data ...