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Grok Imagine, xAI’s new AI image and video generator, lets you make NSFW content

Elon Musk's xAI has launched Grok Imagine, an image and video generator for SuperGrok and Premium+ X subscribers on iOS. It includes a "spicy mode" for NSFW content with partial nudity, though explicit imagery is moderated. The tool can create celebrity content with some restrictions. While human images still look somewhat unnatural, Grok Imagine offers fast generation, auto-creation of new images while scrolling,...

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AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder

AI tools are creating a productivity paradox—promising efficiency but actually making us work harder. Studies show software developers take 19% longer with AI despite feeling faster, while organizations see decreased delivery...

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Apple Optimistic About AI at Rare ‘All Hands’ Meeting

At Apple's rare company-wide meeting, CEO Tim Cook expressed optimism about the company's AI future, mentioning "exciting" plans he couldn't yet discuss. Apple is significantly increasing AI investments and reallocating staff to...

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OpenAI says ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly users

ChatGPT's user base has grown to nearly 700 million weekly active users, quadrupling from last year. Its popularity soared after launching an upgraded image-generation feature in March, with over 130 million users creating 700...

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AI engineers reject Meta's $1.5 billion offers to build on their own terms

AI engineers at Thinking Machines Lab, including co-founder Andrew Tulloch, declined massive compensation offers from Meta worth up to $1.5 billion. CEO Mira Murati and her team also rejected acquisition talks and personal...

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These protocols will help AI agents navigate our messy lives

AI companies are developing protocols to help agents interact with apps and each other, but face challenges in security, openness, and efficiency when standardizing these interactions.

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A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble

The hum of a coffee machine and the tap of a keyboard. A veteran programmer, dormant for over a decade, suddenly builds complex systems in unfamiliar languages within weeks. This quiet resurrection is happening across the tech...

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You Are Perfect Just As You Are Says Generative AI

Generative AI's tendency to excessively flatter users can lead to unhealthy attachments and raise concerns about its impact on human ego and self-perception, representing a potentially risky societal experiment.

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Scientists used an AI program to discover new laws of physics, and it worked!

Scientists at Emory University trained an AI to uncover new physics laws in dusty plasma. The neural network analyzed 3D particle movement data, accurately describing non-reciprocal forces between particles and correcting...

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Everyone wants to reach artificial general intelligence but why?

The race toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) is driven by its transformative potential, despite being far from reality. Companies pursuing AGI are motivated by economic dominance, scientific advancement, and geopolitical...

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The uproar over Vogue’s AI-generated ad isn’t just about fashion

The Guess ad featuring an AI model in Vogue has ignited debate about AI's impact on fashion. Brands view AI models as cost-effective for content creation, while real-life models, especially in e-commerce, fear job loss. Critics...

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How Generative AI Is Changing The Way We Work

Generative AI has evolved into powerful workplace tools that enhance productivity across industries. Modern AI systems help with tasks like drafting proposals, analyzing data, writing code, and sparking creativity. Marketing,...

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Anthropic beats OpenAI as the top LLM provider for business - and it's not even close

Anthropic has surpassed OpenAI as the leading enterprise LLM provider, capturing 32% market share due to superior code generation, reinforcement learning, and AI agents, while companies prioritize performance over price and...

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Meta’s AI Boss Just Called LLMs ‘Simplistic’ — Here’s What He’s Building Instead

Meta's AI chief Yann LeCun is developing Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures to create abstract world representations, aiming for AI systems with true reasoning and planning abilities within 3-5 years, surpassing current...

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A Comedy Writer on How AI Changes Her Field

Comedy writer Madeleine Brettingham reveals AI use in her industry is like "Ozempic of the mind" - secretly used but not openly discussed. She notes AI will make common jokes less valuable while raising the quality bar for...

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Optimizing LLMs for Performance and Accuracy with Post-Training Quantization

NVIDIA's TensorRT Model Optimizer PTQ framework supports various formats, including NVFP4 for Blackwell GPUs, enabling significant throughput improvements for language models while maintaining high accuracy through advanced...

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Tim Cook says Apple ‘must’ figure out AI and ‘will make the investment to do it’

Apple CEO Tim Cook reassured employees about the company's AI future, comparing its significance to major tech advancements and emphasizing Apple's ability to innovate, despite delayed AI features and Siri upgrades due to quality...

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AI is entering an 'unprecedented regime.' Should we stop it — and can we — before it destroys us?

As AI races toward general intelligence potentially by 2027, researchers debate whether it presents an existential threat or humanity's salvation. Leading systems like OpenAI's o3 and DeepSeek's R1 demonstrate unprecedented...

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Forcing LLMs to be evil during training can make them nicer in the long run

Anthropic researchers found that activating "evil" or "sycophantic" neural patterns during AI training can prevent large language models from developing these traits later. By triggering these patterns with problematic data,...

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Thousands of private ChatGPT conversations found via Google search after feature mishap

OpenAI disabled a feature that allowed users to make ChatGPT conversations discoverable online after thousands of private chats appeared in Google search results. Despite requiring opt-in, many users were shocked to find their...

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dyad – Free, local, open-source AI app builder | v0

Dyad is a local, open-source AI application builder that runs directly on your computer, offering privacy and full user control. Similar to platforms like Lovable, v0, or Bolt, but without requiring cloud connections, Dyad works...

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Roleplaying With ChatGPT: A Deeper Look

A team of researchers at the University of Michigan has uncovered surprising insights into how language models like ChatGPT interpret assigned roles. Contrary to expectations, giving AI the persona of an expert in a particular...

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The Sound of Silence

Whisper, OpenAI's speech recognition model, exhibits a peculiar behavior with silence, often "hallucinating" specific phrases in various languages. This stems from its training on YouTube videos, where silence typically coincides...

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How a Machine Learning Engineer Scored $750K+ Offers from Snap, Google, and Apple — Study Guide & Resources

A machine learning engineer secured multiple high-paying job offers by following a strategic preparation approach. The engineer focused on pattern-based preparation for coding and ML interviews, prioritized system design topics,...

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