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Meta's Llama 4 Maverick tops the open-source leaderboard and forces a rethink

For most of the past two years, the story of open-source AI has been one of perpetual catch-up.

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Apple Intelligence expands to more languages as the EU deadline looms

Apple's approach to on-device AI has always been characterised by caution: slower to ship than competitors, more focused on privacy, and deeply tied ...

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An AI-designed vaccine just cleared its first human trial

An AI-designed vaccine has cleared its first human trial. Here is what a vaccine whose active ingredient was created by AI passing early safety ...

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NVIDIA Agent Toolkit gets Omniverse libraries so AI agents can build simulation worlds

NVIDIA has expanded its Agent Toolkit with a new set of Omniverse libraries, and the practical implications are more interesting than the press ...

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Google DeepMind used AI to reconstruct a Pelé goal lost for 65 years

There is a goal that Pelé scored in 1959 at the Rua Javari stadium in São Paulo that most people alive today have never seen. No broadcast exists.

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What Pelé's lost goal tells us about AI and the limits of historical truth

Let me take the DeepMind Pelé reconstruction one step further, because the project raises a question that deserves more than a paragraph.

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OpenAI raises $122 billion at $852 billion valuation

OpenAI has reportedly closed a $122 billion round at an $852 billion valuation, with Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank all writing cheques as customer ...

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NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit brings AI agents into drug discovery

Drug discovery is one of those fields where the stakes are about as high as they get, and the timelines are brutal.

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The EU just ordered Google to let rival AI assistants onto Android

EU regulators have told Google to open Android so phone makers or users can set a rival AI assistant, not just Gemini, as the default, the same week ...

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Trump's AI czar just resigned, raising questions about who actually runs US AI policy

The person appointed by the Trump administration to lead US AI policy has resigned, according to reporting from TechCrunch.

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Google Pixel Watch 4 is back down to its Prime Day price

The Pixel Watch 4 41mm Wi-Fi model has dropped to $289.99 from $349.99, with open-box units discounted further still.

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Moonshot AI paused Kimi K3 signups because it ran out of capacity

Moonshot AI suspended new Kimi K3 subscriptions days after the model topped a major coding leaderboard, with demand outrunning its ability to serve ...

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Colossal Biosciences could hit a 30 billion dollar valuation, and de-extinction is driving it

Colossal Biosciences, the company trying to bring back the woolly mammoth, the thylacine, and the dodo, is reportedly in talks to raise new capital ...

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Anthropic's 1.5 billion dollar copyright settlement sets a new precedent for AI and creative rights

Anthropic has just had a landmark 1.5 billion dollar copyright settlement approved by a US court, and it is the kind of moment that will be talked ...

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SambaNova raises 1 billion dollars to take on Nvidia in inference

SambaNova raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation to chase inference, the recurring cost of serving AI models and the softest part of Nvidia's ...

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Netflix spent 587 million dollars on Ben Affleck's AI film studio

Netflix has acquired Ben Affleck's AI filmmaking startup for 587 million dollars, and I have so many questions.

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Kimi is the Chinese AI model that Western labs should stop ignoring

There is a pattern that keeps repeating itself in Western tech coverage of Chinese AI.

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Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT is silencing a generation of writers

There are not many people who would walk into OpenAI headquarters and tell the staff, to their faces, that their product is doing real harm to human.

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TikTok is testing AI tools to detect deepfake likenesses

TikTok is testing a new AI-powered tool designed to detect when someone's likeness has been used without their consent, according to details that ...

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Databricks hits 188 billion dollar valuation and nobody should be surprised

There is a particular kind of company that thrives not by being the loudest name in a space, but by being genuinely indispensable to the people ...

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xAI can't deny Grok generates CSAM. So it's suing its own users

This is a story that should make everyone uncomfortable, and not just because of the subject matter.

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Proton Pass: the privacy-first password manager worth a look

Proton Pass bundles password management, built-in two-factor codes, and email aliasing from the team behind Proton Mail.

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EU's toughest AI Act rules take effect 2 August, fines up to 7% of turnover

Full enforcement of high-risk provisions under the EU AI Act begins 2 August 2026, with penalties that exceed even GDPR's maximum fines.

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Suno secretly scraped millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer to train its AI

If you've ever uploaded a song to YouTube, posted lyrics to Genius, or streamed anything on Deezer, there's a decent chance your music ended up in ...

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PixVerse raises 439 million dollars as AI video generation heats up

AI video generation startup PixVerse has raised 439 million dollars in a new funding round, pushing its valuation past two billion dollars.

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