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Latest story• Jul 9, 2025

Google's Veo 3 can now create an 8-second video from a single image - how to try it

Google's Veo 3 AI model now allows users to generate 8-second video clips with audio from a single image. This new feature, available as a preview, could help creative professionals save time and resources on video production. Veo 3 excels at integrating AI-generated video and audio, simulating real-world physics, and avoiding glitches common in earlier tools. While promising for industries like advertising and...

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T5Gemma: A new collection of encoder-decoder Gemma models

Google's T5Gemma is a new set of encoder-decoder language models adapted from Gemma 2. These models excel at summarization and translation, offering improved performance and efficiency over decoder-only models. T5Gemma achieves...

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RAG is dead: why enterprises are shifting to agent-based AI architectures

Enterprises are moving from Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to agent-based AI architectures due to security and performance issues. RAG's centralized data storage poses security risks and scaling challenges. Agent-based...

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Anubis: Fighting off the hordes of LLM bot crawlers

Anubis, a new web protection tool, aims to deter AI crawlers by making web scraping prohibitively expensive. The software challenges visitors with a cryptographic puzzle, insignificant for humans but resource-intensive for bot...

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A New Kind of AI Model Lets Data Owners Take Control

Researchers at Ai2 have developed FlexOlmo, a new large language model that allows data owners to control their contributions even after training. This innovative approach divides training, enabling data owners to merge their...

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Encouraging AI uptake: people first, tech second

UK workers have mixed feelings about AI, with optimism about benefits but concerns over rapid progress, necessitating clear organizational strategies, responsible use, transparency, training, and leadership to ensure AI...

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Blok is using AI personas to simulate real-world app usage

Blok, a startup founded in 2024, uses AI to create simulated user personas from event logs, allowing developers to test app features on Figma designs without live testing, helping companies make informed decisions.

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NVIDIA Just Hit $4 Trillion, But The Real AI Boom Hasn’t Started Yet

NVIDIA reached $4 trillion in market value, driven by AI demand and its new Blackwell GPUs. This milestone signals three economic shifts: AI infrastructure buildout, autonomous AI systems, and physical AI in robotics. NVIDIA's...

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OpenAI’s open language model is imminent

OpenAI plans to release an open-weight language model, available on multiple cloud providers, not just Microsoft Azure. This AI, similar to "o3 mini" with strong reasoning capabilities, could be run independently by companies and...

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Perplexity Takes on Google With AI-Powered Browser Comet

Perplexity has launched Comet, an AI-powered web browser that transforms browsing sessions into seamless interactions. The browser features an intelligent assistant that can conduct research, compare information, and help with...

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These AI Models Didn't Learn Language, They Learned Strategy

A digital game of cat and mouse reveals surprising depths in artificial intelligence. Researchers pitted leading language models against each other in a classic prisoner's dilemma scenario, uncovering distinct personalities and...

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OpenAI Poaches 4 High-Ranking Engineers From Tesla, xAI, and Meta

OpenAI has bolstered its scaling team with four key hires: David Lau (ex-Tesla VP), Uday Ruddarraju and Mike Dalton (from xAI), and Angela Fan (from Meta). The team oversees crucial backend systems, including the Stargate project...

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LangChain is about to become a unicorn, sources say

LangChain, an AI infrastructure startup, is raising new funding at a $1 billion valuation led by IVP. The company, which began as an open-source project in late 2022, has evolved to offer LangSmith, a product for monitoring LLM...

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Build Interactive Machine Learning Apps with Gradio

A new Python library called Gradio allows developers to easily create interactive web applications from machine learning models without frontend expertise. Users can convert Python scripts into shareable web apps with just a few...

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Mistral is reportedly in talks to raise $1B

Mistral, a French AI startup, is negotiating up to $1 billion in equity funding from investors like Abu Dhabi's MGX fund, while also exploring debt financing options, following recent collaborations on European AI infrastructure...

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OpenAI is reportedly upping security following rumored foreign threats

OpenAI is reportedly enhancing its cybersecurity and physical security measures to protect against corporate espionage. This comes after Chinese startup DeepSeek released an AI model potentially using distillation to copy...

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What AI Can And Can’t Replace In Executive Coaching

Executive coaching faces disruption from AI's vast knowledge and versatile capabilities. While human coaches offer personalized guidance and emotional support, AI can access terabytes of data and role-play various business...

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What Really Is Machine Learning? (And Why Your Phone Knows You Better Than Your Best Friend)

Machine learning teaches computers to recognize patterns and make predictions. Netflix, weather apps, and Spotify use ML to offer personalized recommendations and accurate forecasts. This technology analyzes vast amounts of data...

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Line Up And Identify Yourselves: AI Agents Get Organized With NANDA

NANDA, an MIT-developed protocol, manages AI agent interactions by providing identity, verification, and transaction capabilities, aiming to create a secure, scalable ecosystem for autonomous AI collaboration and service delivery.

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Moonvalley’s ‘ethical’ AI video model for filmmakers is now publicly available

Moonvalley, an AI video generation startup, has released its "3D-aware" model Marey to the public. The model offers filmmakers more control than standard text-to-video tools, allowing manipulation of objects, characters, motion,...

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NVIDIA unveils world’s first long-context AI that serves 32x more users live

NVIDIA's new Helix Parallelism technique enables AI models to efficiently process massive contexts on their Blackwell GPU system. It splits attention and feed-forward network processes, using KV Parallelism to distribute memory...

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Who Needs Big AI Models?

Cerebras Systems now supports Qwen3-235B, a large AI model with a 131K context length, processing 200-300 pages of text. At $0.60 per million tokens, it's significantly cheaper than similar models. This addresses the need for...

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Context Engineering: Going Beyond Prompt Engineering and RAG

Context engineering enhances LLM applications by designing systems that provide AI models with comprehensive information, including system messages, conversation history, and external data, to optimize their performance beyond...

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Hackers could one day use novel visual techniques to manipulate what AI sees

A seemingly innocuous image could be the Trojan horse that blinds a self-driving car. Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed RisingAttacK, a method that subtly alters images to deceive AI vision systems...

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