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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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AI in practice

Read full article about: Claude can now jump between Excel and PowerPoint on its own Anthropic now lets Claude switch independently between Excel and PowerPoint - for example, running an analysis and ...
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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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Matthias Bastian

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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Project Gumdrop: OpenAI's first AI gadget could send handwritten notes to ChatGPT

OpenAI has reportedly shifted production of its first AI hardware device from Luxshare to Foxconn. The company wants to avoid manufacturing in China, according to Taiwanese business newspaper Economic ...
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns users not to trust ChatGPT agent with sensitive or personal data

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning users not to rely too heavily on the new ChatGPT agent, especially when it comes to tasks involving sensitive or personal data. But Altman says users shouldn't assume ...
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Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses now record your voice by default to train Meta's AI models

Meta has updated its U.S. privacy policy for the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to enable automatic voice recording by default. These recordings can now be used to train Meta AI and other Meta products.