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AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI." OpenAI would spend the day taking…
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Microsoft skipped OpenAI’s decision model and built its own on Alibaba’s Qwen
Microsoft on Friday launched Microsoft-Decision-1 in Foundry, three days after OpenAI opened its Decisions API to every developer in public The post Microsoft skipped OpenAI’s decision model and built its own on Alibaba’s Qwen appeared first on The New Stack.
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Elon Musk’s Grok Bot will pick Claude over Grok when it’s better. One-model loyalty is dead.
I’m Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments, The post Elon Musk’s Grok Bot will pick Claude over Grok when it’s better. One-model loyalty is dead. appeared first…
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Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through…
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Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop
"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the…
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Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI
Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest "did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI." BBC reports that the original first place video from Dr. Ning Xu claimed to…
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The Download: AI’s refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Today’s AI models are trained…
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AWS, Upstage and Ollama agree on a decision-model API. OpenAI hasn’t signed on.
AWS’s new decision model comes with a familiar address. Released October 1, Strands Decider 2B is an open-weight model built The post AWS, Upstage and Ollama agree on a decision-model API. OpenAI hasn’t signed on. appeared first on The New…
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