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Leading OpenAI researcher announced a GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened

OpenAI researchers recently claimed a major math breakthrough on X, but quickly walked it back after criticism from the community, including Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis, who called out the sloppy ...
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Manus 1.5 and Manus-1.5-Lite debut as the newest agentic AI releases from Manus

With version 1.5, Manus is introducing its most capable AI agent system so far. The updated architecture cuts task processing times from 15 minutes to just 4, and internal tests report a 15 percent ...
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California passes first U.S. law regulating AI companion chatbots

California has passed the first U.S. law requiring safety measures for AI companion chatbots such as those from OpenAI, Meta, and Character AI. The legislation, known as SB 243, was prompted by ...
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Figure AI claims its Figure 03 robot can wash dishes, clean floors, and handle chores

The system is powered by Helix, Figure's in-house "vision-language-action" model, and is built for both home and business use, aiming to move beyond lab prototypes toward practical deployment. CEO ...
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OpenAI's Sora 2 answers science questions directly in its generated videos

Epoch AI points out that an upstream language model could tweak the prompt before the video is created and slot in the answer along the way. Other systems, like HunyuanVideo, use similar re-prompting ...
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Perplexity's AI browser "Comet" is now freely available

Perplexity is now making its AI browser "Comet" available for free. Comet includes a built-in AI assistant that helps with research, scheduling, and online shopping every time you open a new tab. Paid ...
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Microsoft 365 Premium promises more office AI features than ChatGPT Plus for one cent less

Microsoft has introduced Microsoft 365 Premium, a $19.99-per-month subscription that combines Office apps and advanced AI features, putting it in direct competition with ChatGPT Plus at the same price ...
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Adobe Photoshop integrates Google's image AI "Nano Banana"

Adobe is bringing Google's new image AI, known as "Nano Banana" (officially Gemini 2.5 Flash Image), to Photoshop as an optional tool. The model is designed for editing existing images with a high ...
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OpenAI has reportedly misjudged its cash burn by $80 billion

The main reason for these numbers is the soaring cost of computing power needed to train and run OpenAI's models, along with a major push to build out its own server infrastructure. The company plans ...
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Tencent open sources two high-performing translation models

Chinese tech giant Tencent has open sourced two specialized translation models, claiming they outperform established tools like Google Translate in international benchmarks. At WMT2025, a major ...
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AI researcher Andrej Karpathy says he's "bearish on reinforcement learning" for LLM training

Andrej Karpathy, a former Tesla and OpenAI researcher, is part of a growing movement in the AI community calling for a new approach to building large language models (LLMs) and AI systems. On X, ...
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Google DeepMind's Gemini wins Mathematical Olympiad gold using only natural language

Google DeepMind has claimed its first gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) with an "advanced version" of its Gemini model running in Deep Think mode. The system solved five out ...