The tides are turning in the AI race, and the pressure is getting to OpenAI. Chief executive Sam Altman reportedly declared a “code red” on Monday, urging staff to improve its flagship product ChatGPT, an indicator that the startup’s once-unassailable lead is eroding as competitors like Google and Anthropic close...
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While tech giants pour billions into computational power to train frontier AI models, China’s DeepSeek has achieved comparable results by working smarter, not harder. The DeepSeek V3.2 AI model matches OpenAI’s GPT-5 in reasoning benchmarks despite using ‘fewer total training FLOPs’ – a breakthrough that could reshape how the industry...
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Black Friday is over, and Cyber Monday has arrived. Every major retailer is offering big sales on items from Apple, Samsung, LG, Roku, and more....
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The things that worry the chief information security officer - like what data is too sensitive to expose - are the concerns that can kill agentic AI....
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Cyber Monday is winding down, but if you're in the market for a new TV to watch movies or football over the winter, you don't want to wait....
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OpenAI announced an ownership stake in the private equity investment firm Thrive Holdings, whose parent company, Thrive Capital, is one of the main investors in, you guessed it, OpenAI. While OpenAI did not spend money on the ownership stake, according to an anonymous source cited by The Financial Times, the...
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Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down from his position, according to an announcement on Monday. The change comes as Apple struggles to get its AI-powered Siri back on track after delaying its launch earlier this year. Now, Amar Subramanya will serve as Apple’s vice president of AI. Subramanya...
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Runway claims its latest text-to-video model generates even more accurate visuals than its last. In a blog post on Monday, Runway says its Gen-4.5 model can produce “cinematic and highly realistic outputs,” potentially making it even more difficult to distinguish between what’s real and what’s AI. “Gen-4.5 achieves unprecedented physical...
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North American enterprises are now actively deploying agentic AI systems intended to reason, adapt, and act with complete autonomy. Data from Digitate’s three-year global programme indicates that, while adoption is universal across the board, regional maturity paths are diverging. North American firms are scaling toward full autonomy, whereas their European...
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Pope Leo XIV probably isn't the first person you picture when conversation turns to Artificial General Intelligence doomsday scenarios. But last month, AGI researcher John-Clark Levin found himself inside the Vatican on a mission to put those concerns in front of the pope. Levin hasn't been acting alone. In the...
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Madison Lawrence Tabbey was scrolling through X in late October when a post from a Wicked update account caught her attention. Ariana Grande, who stars in the movies as Glinda, had just liked a meme on Instagram about never wanting to see another AI-generated image again. Grande had also purportedly...
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Morrow County, Oregon, is home to mega farms and food processing plants. But it’s also home to several Amazon data centers. And now, some experts believe, that combination is leading to an alarmingly high concentration of nitrates in the drinking water that is driving up cancer and miscarriage rates in...
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If all you want is a way to talk to ChatGPT, you're practically spoiled for choice - there are countless ways to chat with the bots, and seemingly countless new ones every single day. But that's not the whole story of how we'll interact with large language models. It better...
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Streaming service Deezer ran an experiment recently, with the help of research firm Ipsos. The finding - that 97 percent of people can't tell the difference between fully AI-generated and human-made music - was alarming. But it's also not the whole story. In the survey, 9,000 participants listened to three...
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SAP is moving its sovereignty plans forward with EU AI Cloud, a setup meant to unify its efforts in the region under one approach. The goal is to give organisations in Europe more choice and control of how they run AI and cloud services. EU AI Cloud is built to...
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The latest MCP spec update fortifies enterprise infrastructure with tighter security, moving AI agents from pilot to production. Marking its first year, the Anthropic-created open-source project released a revised spec this week aimed at the operational headaches keeping generative AI agents stuck in pilot mode. Backed by Amazon Web Services...
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The next frontier for edge AI medical devices isn’t wearables or bedside monitors—it’s inside the human body itself. Cochlear’s newly launched Nucleus Nexa System represents the first cochlear implant capable of running machine learning algorithms while managing extreme power constraints, storing personalised data on-device, and receiving over-the-air firmware updates to improve its AI...
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With a vibrant OLED display and all-day battery, Acer's Swift 16 AI strikes a balance between premium features and affordability, on sale for $749....
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The LG C5 OLED offers stunning picture quality and a sleek, minimalist design for a truly immersive experience - and it's currently discounted across several retailers....
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Looking for a tablet for the low? I found the Blackview Tab 90 to perform well as an entertainment device. Right now, it's on sale for Black Friday....
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OpenAI’s response to a lawsuit by the family of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old who took his own life after discussing it with ChatGPT for months, said the injuries in this “tragic event” happened as a result of Raine’s “misuse, unauthorized use, unintended use, unforeseeable use, and/or improper use of ChatGPT.”...
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The slim design, enhanced processor, and Galaxy AI features make this year's Ultra flagship better than ever. Right now, it's $899 for Black Friday....
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The ReMarkable Paper Pro delivers a premium pen-and-paper experience on a color display. Despite the purity of its mission, however, it remains an exclusive product....
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The features take much of the friction out of translating raw information into approachable slide decks and infographics. But is that really a good thing?...
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If you're at all interested in subscribing to Hulu or Disney+, this deal is one of my favorites, at the best price we've seen all year. Here are all the details....
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