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Google launches new AI agent to help plan your day

The experimental productivity assistant called CC comes from Google Labs and runs on Gemini. After signing up, CC connects to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and the internet to understand your ...
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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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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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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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Google boasts 1.3 quadrillion tokens each month, but the figure is mostly window dressing

Google says it now processes more than 1.3 quadrillion tokens every month with its AI models. But this headline number mostly reflects computing effort, not real usage or practical value, and it ...
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Terence Tao says ChatGPT saved him hours solving a math problem

Tao had a theoretical analysis but needed concrete numbers to check certain inequalities. At first, he asked the AI to write Python code, but ran into issues with runtime and parameter selection. By ...
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Anthropic settles landmark AI copyright lawsuit for at least $1.5 billion

U.S. District Judge William Alsup has given preliminary approval to the $1.5 billion settlement in the copyright lawsuit between a group of authors and AI company Anthropic, as described below. Alsup ...
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WeChat rolls out AI labeling rules in China

WeChat is introducing new rules that require users to label any AI-generated content they share, including videos and public posts. The platform may also add its own visible or invisible labels to ...
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LeCun now reports to Alexandr Wang as Meta reshuffles its top AI leadership

Yann LeCun, Meta's AI icon and longtime head of the FAIR research group, will now report to 28-year-old Alexandr Wang. Wang, who founded Scale AI, was recently tapped to lead the new Meta ...
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Interview with Microsoft: Copilot, AI skills, and building a learning organization

As part of the "AI-Humanitas: Enabling AI-Skills" series, Dr. Wolfgang König and The Decoder sat down with Daniela Todorova (Director Learning) and Lara Bems (Skilling Program Manager) from Microsoft ...
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Google processed nearly one quadrillion tokens in June, doubling May’s total

Google's AI systems processed over 980 trillion tokens in June—more than double the amount in May, according to Google product manager Logan Kilpatrick and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. Tokens are ...
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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 ...