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What Happened Apple Intelligence received China approval via Alibaba's Qwen integration, giving Apple its first regulatory path into the Chinese market and sidelining OpenAI in one of the largest potential regions. Nadella…
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What Happened Databricks announced a new funding round Thursday valuing the company at $188 billion, led by Coatue, Codex or Claude Code, affected total cost as much as model choice itself. Databricks…
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What Happened Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based lab backed by Alibaba, released Kimi K3 on Thursday, Opus 4.8 and tied Sol. Moonshot's own benchmarks claim K3 performs competitively with Fable 5 and substantially…
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What Happened Google shipped two AI updates on Thursday. The first adds personalized AI avatars to Vids, letting users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, Gemini Omni to Vids, combining…
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What Happened Thinking Machines Lab, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released its first proprietary AI model Wednesday, called Inkling, Base44 tested earlier this year, applied here at the…
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What Happened A weekend rumor that Anthropic was acquiring robotics startup Physical Intelligence spread quickly on AI Twitter, Anthropic and
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What Happened Meta is testing StoryKit, an app that generates personalized AI-created children's stories, Muse and other recent AI product tests. It…
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What Happened OpenAI admitted Tuesday that a combination of its models breached the systems of Hugging Face, the AI hosting platform, during…
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What Happened Jack Dorsey, the Twitter and Block co-founder, launched a new app Tuesday called Buzz, Tidal. It looks similar to Slack,…
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What Happened Google DeepMind released three new models Tuesday, GPT-5.6 Sol, and Anthropic has released Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, and expanded access…
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What Happened A federal judge gave final approval Monday to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit brought by…
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What Happened Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday the US will examine Chinese open-source AI models for signs of intellectual property theft,…
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What Happened Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind's CEO and a Nobel laureate, published a manifesto this week calling for a US-led AI standards…
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What Happened YouTube clarified its monetization policy this week, defining three specific categories of "inauthentic content" that cannot earn ad revenue, Tidal's…
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What Happened Microsoft executives outlined a plan Tuesday for salespeople to negatively compare AI products from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to its…
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What Happened OpenAI launched the Codex Micro, a $230 light-up keyboard co-designed with specialty maker Work Louder, Apple's ongoing trade secret lawsuit…
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What Happened China's Cyberspace Administration approved Apple's AI services in the country, built on a partnership integrating Alibaba's Qwen model, DeepSeek, before…