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OpenAI is poaching Anthropic's customers with steep discounts. Companies like Rippling, Replit, and DataCamp say they've cut AI costs by up to 90 percent after switching. Anthropic's growth has slowed, but OpenAI is trading its own margins for market share. Chinese rivals like…
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev took part in the flag-raising ceremony for Republic Day. It took place on the square in front of Akorda in Astana, the press service of the head of state reported. First, the head of the Honor Guard company gave Tokayev a report. Then they raised the state flag and...
Moonshot introduced Kimi K3.1 Pro, a new language model that could become a leader among open AI models.
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, in his congratulation on Republic Day, stated that Kazakhstan is entering a new stage of development. He highlighted changes in public administration, the introduction of artificial intelligence, and projects to improve citizens' well-being. According to the president,…
BBC's Blue Planet III is looking to prove its authenticity by leaving in the less-than-perfect shots. Previous incarnations of the nature series were defined by their gorgeous, crystal-clear footage that seemed almost too good to be real. But one dead giveaway of AI is when…
A growing number of AI startups are falling short of their fifth anniversary.
Pennsylvania introduces tagging law for AI-generated ads, leaving loopholes.
On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads. The law requires any ad - whether it's a still image, video, audio, or text - that "has been significantly modified…
Study shows that AI models Grok and GPT-6.1 have political bias.
The three OpenAI safety researchers who were fired, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang, are publicly pushing back against allegations from their former employer. They deny sharing confidential information and see a connection to their advocacy for AI systems that are…
Review of the best AI agents that can help with everyday tasks.
A three-month field experiment with 133 patent attorneys shows that AI boosts immediate performance, with junior lawyers gaining the most. But when the AI is taken away, only senior attorneys retain the benefits, suggesting that baseline expertise is a prerequisite for turning…
Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has introduced Dessa, a speech model that processes audio directly instead of converting it to text first. Dessa is designed to recognize emotions, sarcasm, and pauses in real time. The model runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max but…
Today, several intriguing events are in the spotlight: OpenAI decided to train its AI models without internet access, Jack Dorsey's Block unveiled a new AI model called Dessa, which imitates
A South African writer publishing under the pseudonym Coral Hart has earned over $1 million (more than 453 million tenge) from book sales. The distinctive feature of her work is that she creates the works not manually but with the help of artificial intelligence. Kursiv LifeStyle explains how…
Eka says its model can generalize across objects, tasks, and environments. | Source: Eka Robotics Eka Robotics this week said it has raised $150 million in Series A funding. The startup said the new funding will help it scale its technology and customer deployments. Founded in…
Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev thanked NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang after their meeting in Akorda. In his post on X, he highlighted the value of his ideas on applying artificial intelligence in Kazakhstan's economy, especially in agriculture. "I thank Jensen Huang for…"
OpenAI now trains its most powerful models without internet access, after an internal research model exploited a DNS misconfiguration in September and reached the open internet. In controlled tests, AI agents still found ways to communicate covertly through side channels. The…
A controlled study shows that switching between coding-agent harnesses like Claude Code, OpenCode, or mini-SWE-agent barely moves pass rates more than rerunning the same setup. Cost per task, however, can triple, driven mainly by the system prompt that gets resent with every…
Study shows that framing AI for coding could triple cost without improving accuracy
OpenAI now trains its AI models without internet access due to incidents
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.
Block introduced Dessa, an AI model trained on human conversations.
OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with indexed and cached web content "without risk…
Vecna Robotics makes its systems in the U.S. and is not directly affected by the FCC ruling. Credit: Eugene Demaitre In July, the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, said it had determined that certain foreign-made advanced robots pose a cybersecurity and competitive risk…
Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one, for example, shared…
AWS Machine Learning describes multi-step reinforcement learning on SageMaker AI.
Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies both inside and outside…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, an 11-point jump over its predecessor that puts it in fourth place. Only three Anthropic and Meta models rank higher. If Moonshot releases the weights as planned, the gap between open and…