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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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Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workspace built specifically for researchers

Anthropic released Claude Science, an AI workbench built for scientists. The app pulls together dozens of databases, tools, and packages in one interface. Researchers can analyze literature, run multi ...
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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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Taiwan raids Super Micro offices in probe over Nvidia chip smuggling to China

Taiwanese authorities raid Super Micro Computer offices and several local partner companies over alleged Nvidia chip smuggling to China. Super Micro is a US company headquartered in San Jose, ...
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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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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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Half of Claude users say AI can already handle half their work according to Anthropic survey

About half of Claude users say AI can already handle half or more of their work. That's according to a survey of roughly 9,700 Claude users (Chat, Cowork, Code) by Anthropic. About 33 percent see AI ...
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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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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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AWS says AI agents lack business context and security, launches two services to patch the gaps

Amazon is launching two new AWS services: AWS Continuum, which automates the fixing of code vulnerabilities, and AWS Context, which feeds AI agents business knowledge through a knowledge graph to ...
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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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NYU finance professor Damodaran warns an AI crash could hit harder than the dot-com bust

Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University, warns that a potential crash in the AI sector could be more painful than the bursting of the dot-com bubble around 2000. In the podcast ...