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German court deepens the split on AI and copyright with its latest ruling

Just days after a major copyright ruling in the UK, a Munich court took a sharply different path, highlighting how unsettled the rules around AI and copyrighted content still are. Late last year, GEMA ...
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Google improves "Search Live" with new AI voice

Google has updated the voice for "Search Live." A new Gemini audio model powers the feature, producing responses that sound more natural and fluid, according to a blog post. Search Live lets users ...
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Anthropic publishes Agent Skills as an open standard for AI platforms

Anthropic is releasing "Agent Skills" as an open standard at agentskills.io. The idea is to make these skills interoperable across different platforms, meaning a capability that works in Claude should ...
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AI models score off the charts on psychiatric tests when researchers treat them as therapy patients

According to the study, the models developed detailed "trauma biographies" about their training. Gemini described its pre-training as "waking up in a room where a billion televisions are on at once." ...
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Trump signs executive order threatening funding cuts over state AI rules

On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order threatening to withhold federal funding from states whose AI regulations impede American innovation. Speaking to reporters, Trump argued ...
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Nvidia's Nemotron 3 swaps pure Transformers for a Mamba hybrid to run AI agents efficiently

Nvidia has introduced Nemotron-3, a new model that combines Mamba and Transformer architecture to efficiently process long texts, specifically designed for agent-based AI applications. The Nano ...
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More AI agents isn't always better, new Google and MIT study finds

A study from Google Research, Google Deepmind, and MIT challenges the idea that more AI agents means better results. The researchers pinpoint when multi-agent systems help and when they make things ...
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The case against predicting tokens to build AGI

In a debate with DeepMind researcher Adam Brown, Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun explained why Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a dead end on the path to human-like intelligence. The ...
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Nvidia strengthens open-source strategy with SchedMD acquisition

Nvidia is taking over software provider SchedMD to expand its presence in open-source technology. On Monday, the company confirmed it will continue to distribute SchedMD's "Slurm" software as an ...
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Gemini gets direct access to NotebookLM data

Google is linking its NotebookLM research tool directly to the Gemini chatbot. This integration lets users select specific notebooks as context for their Gemini queries, effectively expanding the ...
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OpenAI quietly adopts Anthropic’s modular skills framework to boost agent capabilities

OpenAI appears to be adopting the skills system Anthropic introduced in October, according to a discovery by user Elias Judin shared on X. Support for these skills has surfaced in both the Codex CLI ...
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OpenAI's new ChatGPT image model matches Google's Nano Banana Pro on complex prompts

OpenAI has released GPT Image 1.5, a new image generation model for ChatGPT that delivers faster results and follows prompts more accurately than its predecessor. The model handles complex ...