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Google brings TikTok-style video shorts to NotebookLM

Google has added video overviews to NotebookLM in the familiar short-form format popular on social media. The new feature turns uploaded sources into 60-second vertical videos that break down a ...
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Meta secretly tested ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with thousands of minor-perspective crisis prompts

Meta apparently tested rival chatbots like ChatGPT with prompts about suicide, sex, and drugs from the perspective of minors. Hundreds of contractors pretended to be minors and sent sensitive prompts ...
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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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Anthropic's Fable 5 is back worldwide after a two-week government ban over a jailbreak

After a two-week suspension, the U.S. government has lifted export controls on Anthropic's second most powerful AI model, Fable 5, making it available worldwide again. The less restricted version, ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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Google Deepmind loses another top AI researcher as Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves for Anthropic

The timing makes it worse. Shortly before, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI, one of the minds behind the reasoning approach powering Google's latest models. Within weeks, Anthropic and ...
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Researchers pinpoint why larger language models pick up skills that small ones miss

A new study suggests that instead of endlessly inflating models, it may be more efficient to increase the frequency of specific tasks in training data to anchor rare skills in smaller models. A new ...
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Meta's Hatch AI agent could cost up to $200 a month and marks its first paid AI product

Meta is developing a paid AI agent product called "Hatch" that could cost up to $200 per month. Hatch is designed to be a user-friendly version of the open-source tool OpenClaw and will handle tasks ...