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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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Germany's cybersecurity agency issues new guidelines to protect LLMs from persistent threats

The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warns that even top AI providers are struggling to defend against so-called evasion attacks targeting language models. Ad In these attacks, ...
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns rivals about chasing low-margin AI compute

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is drawing a clear line between his company’s approach to AI and cloud and that of competitors like Oracle. In a conversation with Dwarkesh Patel, Nadella laid out why ...
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OpenAI faces questions over calls for government support

Some on social media—including AI commentator Gary Marcus—have pointed out that OpenAI's recent letter to the White House appears to contradict CEO Sam Altman's claim that OpenAI is not seeking ...
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Sandbar claims its finger-worn AI device is the new 'mouse for voice'

Another startup is taking a shot at AI hardware. This time with a voice-controlled wearable ring designed for everyday use. US-based startup Sandbar has unveiled the Stream Ring, a device that turns ...
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Facing lawsuits, OpenAI rewires ChatGPT for safer teen use

OpenAI published a "Teen Safety Blueprint" to better protect young users from harm. The new framework follows incidents where ChatGPT allegedly failed to help users in mental distress. OpenAI has ...
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Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 Thinking sets new agentic reasoning records in open-source LLMs

Chinese AI company Moonshot AI has unveiled Kimi K2 Thinking, a new open-source language model the company calls the "best open-source thinking model." Designed as a "thinking agent," K2 Thinking is ...
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Google's Gemini API now supports file search with custom data

Google has added a File Search Tool to the Gemini API, allowing developers to query their own documents using a vector database. The tool manages storing files, splitting them up, searching for ...
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Most LLM benchmarks are flawed, casting doubt on AI progress metrics, study finds

A new international study highlights major problems with large language model (LLM) benchmarks, showing that most current evaluation methods have serious flaws. After reviewing 445 benchmark papers ...
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Why GPT-4o's "personality" can't be recreated

A developer at OpenAI known as "Roon" on X explains why large language models never behave exactly the same way twice. Roon says a model's "personality" can shift with every training run, even if the ...
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Six AI all-stars weigh in on hype, hope, and the reality behind the field

Six of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence took the stage at the Queen Elizabeth Prize 2025 ceremony to weigh in on recent breakthroughs, ongoing challenges, and whether current AI ...
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Reuters: Deepseek emerges as key AI partner in China’s military research

A Reuters analysis shows that China's People's Liberation Army is systematically integrating artificial intelligence from domestic companies such as Deepseek and Alibaba into military systems.