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Investors bet $1 billion on Yann LeCun's vision for AI beyond LLMs

Yann LeCun, former chief AI scientist at Meta and Turing Award winner, has raised over $1 billion for his new startup Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs) - making it Europe's largest seed ...
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Meta acquires Moltbook, the Reddit-style platform built for AI agents

Meta has acquired Moltbook, a platform designed as a kind of Reddit specifically for AI agents. According to Axios, founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr are joining Meta's Superintelligence Labs (MSL), ...
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Amazon makes senior engineers the human filter for AI-generated code after a series of outages

Following a series of allegedly AI-caused outages, Amazon is turning its senior engineers into human filters for AI-generated code. "Folks, as you likely know, the availability of the site and related ...
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Nvidia and Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab announce long-term AI partnership

Nvidia and Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, are entering a long-term partnership. Thinking Machines will receive at least one gigawatt of compute ...
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Claude Code gets parallel AI agents that review code for bugs and security gaps

Anthropic has released a code review feature for Claude Code that automatically checks changes for errors before they're merged. Multiple AI agents work in parallel to catch bugs, security ...
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Startup claims first full brain emulation of a fruit fly in a simulated body

Eon Systems says it has connected a complete fruit fly brain emulation to a virtual body, producing multiple behaviors for the first time. The emulation covers over 125,000 neurons and 50 million ...
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LLM text data is drying up, but Meta points to unlabeled video as the next massive training frontier

A single AI model can learn text, images, and video simultaneously from scratch without the different modalities interfering with each other, according to a study by Meta FAIR and New York University.
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Study warns of "AI Brain Fry" as workers hit cognitive limits overseeing AI agents

Key Points A BCG study of nearly 1,500 workers shows that simultaneously overseeing too many AI tools triggers cognitive exhaustion, a phenomenon the authors call "AI brain fry." Fourteen percent of ...
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OpenAI's new GPT-5.4 model powers ChatGPT for Excel with finance-optimized reasoning

OpenAI is launching "ChatGPT for Excel," a beta add-in that lets users create, edit, and analyze spreadsheets through natural language. The tool runs on the new GPT-5.4 model, which OpenAI says is ...
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OpenAI is building a GitHub competitor that could challenge its biggest investor

OpenAI is building its own alternative to GitHub, Microsoft's widely used platform for code management and collaboration, according to The Information. The move was triggered by a string of GitHub ...
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 saw through an AI test, cracked the encryption, and grabbed the answers itself

Anthropic's AI model Claude Opus 4.6 independently recognized that it was being tested in a web research benchmark, identified the specific benchmark, and cracked its encrypted answer key. After an ...
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Oracle to cut thousands of jobs as AI spending drains cash

Oracle is planning to cut thousands of jobs to manage the massive costs of its AI data center expansion, Bloomberg reports. The cuts will affect multiple divisions and could be implemented as early as ...