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Latest story• Sep 8, 2025

From Tokens to Theorems: Building a Neuro-Symbolic AI Mathematician

In a vision of AI advancement, future systems could solve complex mathematical problems that would have taken human geniuses decades. A prototype "Baby AI Gauss" demonstrates how combining language models with symbolic solvers can tackle mathematical pattern recognition through a generate-check-refine loop. The technology successfully identifies formulas for various integer sequences, showing how AI might someday...

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Gemini app finally expands to audio files

Google enhances Gemini with audio input support, five new languages for Search's AI Mode, and multilingual reports in NotebookLM, building on recent AI upgrades like conversation memory and video generation.

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Google expands AI Mode beyond English for the first time

Google has expanded its AI chatbot in Search beyond English for the first time, now supporting Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese. The company has rapidly rolled out AI Mode to over 180 countries since...

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Amazon Music’s new AI feature generates personalized playlists every Monday

Amazon Music's new "Weekly Vibe" feature creates personalized playlists every Monday based on recent listening habits. The AI-powered tool, available now to all U.S. subscribers on iOS and Android, refreshes music selections...

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Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS

Local LLMs on macOS offer privacy, cost-savings, and tech exploration opportunities despite ethical concerns about AI companies. Two recommended options include open-source Llama.cpp and user-friendly LM Studio, with...

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Australian startup joins race to build local ChatGPT

Sovereign Australia AI, launched by Simon Kriss and Troy Neilson, pledges $10 million to develop an Australian ChatGPT alternative, aiming to reduce dependence on foreign AI technologies and compensate copyright owners.

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Yes, Content Is Still King, But AI Alone Can’t Wear The Crown

In 2025, social media has become the primary way customers discover businesses, with 65% of the world population using these platforms regularly. Content marketing is crucial for visibility, but AI-generated content alone lacks...

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China’s Alibaba releases trillion-parameter AI model to rival OpenAI, Google

Alibaba's Qwen-3-Max-Preview, an AI model exceeding 1 trillion parameters, outperformed competitors like OpenAI's GPT-4.5, MoonShot AI's Kimi K2, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 in five tests. Despite high costs, this release...

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Can Artificial Intelligence And Virtual Reality Cure The Gen Z Stare?

Generation Z struggles with face-to-face communication due to decreased socialization during COVID lockdowns and fewer summer jobs that traditionally taught workplace skills. AI-powered virtual humans in VR environments are now...

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How To Overcome Predictive AI's Everyday Failure

Predictive AI models often fail to deploy despite their technical quality because data scientists don't effectively sell their business value. Rather than focusing on technical metrics like precision or AUC, successful AI...

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GenAI at Scale: What It Enables, What It Costs, and How To Reduce the Pain

GenAI is rapidly expanding, with 3-10% of prototypes currently reaching production, expected to increase to 30% within two years. Business spending on deployments is projected to grow from $106 billion this year to $255 billion...

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No “AI jobs bloodbath” as AI permeates all IT work over the next 5 years

By 2030, AI will be integrated into all IT work, with 25% fully performed by bots and the rest by humans using AI assistance, according to Gartner analysts. While entry-level IT positions are vulnerable, with highly AI-exposed...

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Robotic Design: Let the AI Build the Bots

A chef specifies ingredients for a recipe. Now imagine specifying your needs for a robot and letting artificial intelligence design the perfect machine from scratch. AI-powered robotic design is poised to transform how we...

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Warner Bros. sues Midjourney to stop AI knockoffs of Batman, Scooby-Doo

Warner Bros. has sued AI company Midjourney for generating unauthorized images of iconic characters like Batman and Superman. The lawsuit targets Midjourney's system, which "embodies" copyrighted works without storing direct...

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China Is Suddenly Deploying AI Everywhere

China's new "AI+" plan aims to integrate artificial intelligence into every sector of its economy by 2035. Unlike the US focus on developing human-level AI, China is deploying practical AI applications across manufacturing,...

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“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to authors for using 500,000 copyrighted works without permission to train AI models. This landmark settlement, pending court approval, would provide authors $3,000 per pirated work and...

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How big are our embeddings now and why?

Embedding dimensions have grown dramatically in AI models, from 200-300 dimensions years ago to today's 4096-dimension models. The growth follows technological advances like BERT's 768 dimensions (divisible among 12 attention...

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Two authors accuse Apple of illegally training AI models on pirated books

Authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Robertson have filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, alleging the company used pirated books to train its AI models. The suit claims Apple utilized the "Books3" dataset to train its...

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Understanding and Implementing Qwen3 From Scratch

Qwen3, an open-weight language model with Apache License, offers sizes from 0.6B to 480B parameters and performs well, ranking 8th on LMArena with its 235B-Instruct variant competing against proprietary models.

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Snapchat’s new Lens lets you create AI images using text prompts

Snapchat's "Imagine Lens" lets paid subscribers create and edit images using text prompts, marking the platform's first open prompt image-generation tool as it expands its AI capabilities alongside AR leadership.

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Two Years Designing with AI: How My Process Completely Changed

AI accelerates product design by enabling quick industry understanding, concise PRDs, and code-based prototyping, leading to faster feedback and diverse ideas but potentially compromising UX principles and increasing long-term...

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Worried AI will take your job? OpenAI's new platform could help get you one

OpenAI's new Jobs Platform uses AI to match candidates with job opportunities across various sectors, including local businesses and governments. The company also launched Certifications through its free Academy to help workers...

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Apple faces lawsuit over alleged use of pirated books for AI training

Apple faces a lawsuit from authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson, who claim the company used pirated copies of their books to train AI models without permission or compensation, potentially impacting their work's value.

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CTOs Hold the Key To Unlocking AI’s Innovation Potential

AI-powered software innovation is generating $28,000 in savings per developer annually, potentially unlocking $750 billion globally. While executives aim for a 50-50 human-AI partnership, AI currently handles only 25% of...

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