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Google wants to provide free Gemini AI training to all 6 million U.S. educators

Google for Education and the educational organization ISTE+ASCD are launching a joint initiative to provide free AI training to all six million teachers in the US. Google says it's the largest program ...
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Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises one billion dollars for "spatial intelligence"

World Labs, the AI startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has raised one billion dollars in a new funding round. Backers include Autodesk, Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and AMD, according to a blog ...
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Anthropic raises $30 billion, pushing valuation to $380 billion

Anthropic has closed a $30 billion Series G funding round, bringing the AI company's post-money valuation to $380 billion. The round was led by GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, and U.S.
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Anthropic still won't give the Pentagon unrestricted access to its AI models

Anthropic continues to refuse the Pentagon unrestricted access to its AI models, and the standoff is turning into a serious problem. According to Axios, the U.S. Department of Defense is now ...
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Anthropic's new AI security tool sends cybersecurity stocks tumbling

Anthropic has launched Claude Code Security, a new tool that detects security vulnerabilities in code that traditional rule-based scanners typically miss. Rather than matching known patterns, the tool ...
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Context files for coding agents often don't help - and may even hurt performance

Context files are supposed to make coding agents more productive. New research shows that only works under very specific conditions. A recent study from ETH Zurich researchers paints a much more ...
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Google and OpenAI complain about distillation attacks that clone their AI models on the cheap

Google and OpenAI are complaining about data theft—yes, you read that right. According to Google, Gemini was hit with a massive cloning attempt through distillation, with a single campaign firing over ...
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Newsguard tested whether ChatGPT Voice (OpenAI), Gemini Live (Google), and Alexa+ (Amazon) repeat false claims in realistic-sounding audio, the kind easily shared on social media to spread ...
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A printed sign can hijack a self-driving car and steer it toward pedestrians, study shows

A sign with the right text is enough to make a drone land on an unsafe roof or steer an autonomous vehicle into pedestrians. A self-driving car reads road signs to navigate safely, but that ability ...
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OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) and Moltbook let attackers walk through the front door

OpenClaw lets attackers extract system prompts and configurations with almost no effort. Moltbook's entire database—including API keys—is sitting exposed on the public network. Developer Lucas ...
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Google Deepmind pioneer David Silver departs to found AI startup, betting LLMs alone won't reach superintelligence

Google Deepmind loses one of its leading AI researchers as David Silver departs, adding to growing skepticism that current language models alone can achieve superintelligence. Silver was one of the AI ...
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OpenAI's new coding model GPT-5.3-Codex helped build itself during training and deployment

OpenAI also claims the model played a role in its own development, with the team using early versions to find bugs during training, manage deployment, and evaluate results. The company says the team ...