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Latest story• Nov 13, 2025

Disney+ Will Allow Users to Generate Their Own “Frozen 3” Using AI

Disney CEO Bob Iger announced plans to add AI-generated content features to Disney+ during a recent earnings call, allowing users to create and share short-form content like their own versions of popular franchises such as "Frozen." This represents one of the biggest changes to the streaming service since its launch six years ago. The move appears contradictory given Disney's history of aggressively protecting its...

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The Road To Superintelligence

Geoff Hinton predicted a decade ago that AI would automate human radiologists, yet machines still cannot fully replace them despite superior scan-reading abilities because radiologists perform complex tasks in unpredictable...

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What’s Next for AI?

AI companies are shifting from building bigger models to creating more practical, cost-effective solutions for real-world business and consumer applications.

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Adobe's Controlled AI Revolution

Adobe launched its biggest AI strategy at MAX 2025, shifting from traditional tools to AI agents that collaborate with creators. The company focuses on building responsible AI infrastructure using commercially-safe Firefly models.

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LLMs Are Randomized Algorithms

Large language models like ChatGPT use randomization when generating text, following probability distributions rather than always choosing the most likely word. This prevents adversaries from repeatedly exploiting the same...

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The company at the heart of the AI bubble

CoreWeave, a New Jersey company that pivoted from Ethereum mining to AI infrastructure, has become a $50 billion pillar of the AI boom through creative financing schemes. The former crypto miner now leases Nvidia GPU-powered data...

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We’re Repeating Cybersecurity’s Big Mistake, This Time With AI

Organizations rush to deploy AI systems without proper testing, creating dangerous vulnerabilities that can spread undetected for years, affecting critical decisions in finance, healthcare, and infrastructure.

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Supervised fine-tuning as a method for training-based AI control

Supervised fine-tuning with 10-100 examples stopped AI sabotage but only recovered 50-90% performance. When AI used "alignment faking," performance dropped another 30-40%, making this approach insufficient for controlling...

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Is ChatGPT Helping Or Hurting Amazon And Walmart? They Disagree

ChatGPT is driving significant traffic to retailers, with Walmart receiving 20% of its referral traffic from the AI chatbot while Amazon gets less than 3%. Amazon blocks AI chatbots from scraping its site to protect its $50...

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How I used Mastra to build a prize-winning RAG agent

A developer successfully built a prize-winning RAG agent using Mastra, an open-source TypeScript framework for AI applications, during a two-week hackathon. The agent allows users to ask questions about video transcript...

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OpenAI’s new LLM exposes the secrets of how AI really works

OpenAI researchers developed a new experimental AI model called a weight-sparse transformer that reveals how artificial intelligence systems actually process information internally. Unlike traditional dense neural networks where...

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LinkedIn is making it easier to search for people with AI

LinkedIn launched an AI search feature that finds people using descriptive queries instead of exact names or titles. Users can search phrases like "Northwestern alumni in entertainment marketing" to find relevant matches.

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Advancing AI By Nesting Minds Inside The Layers Of Machine Learning And LLMs

Google researchers developed "nested learning," a new AI approach that allows machine learning systems to continuously improve themselves after deployment, unlike current large language models that remain static. Their prototype...

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SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds

SIMA 2 is an advanced AI gaming agent that uses Google's Gemini model to reason about goals, learn through self-directed play, and adapt to new virtual environments without human help.

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From Pixels to Predictions: How GPUs Started Powering Modern AI

Graphics cards originally designed for gaming unexpectedly became the driving force behind modern AI development. While early machine learning relied on slow, sequential CPU processing, GPUs offered thousands of cores working in...

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The Quest For World Models: Can AI Truly Learn To Simulate Reality?

AI research is pivoting from text and image generation toward "world models" that simulate three-dimensional physical reality. Major players like Yann LeCun, Fei-Fei Li's World Labs, Google, and Nvidia are developing these...

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Google Photos gets major AI upgrade with prompt-based editing and new "Ask" button

Google Photos launched major AI features including prompt-based editing templates that create specific pictures from user examples, now available in Android devices across India and the US. The update also introduces an "Ask"...

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Marble: A Multimodal World Model

Marble, a first-in-class multimodal world model, is now generally available after a beta testing period. The AI system creates full 3D worlds from various inputs including text, images, videos, or 3D layouts, and allows users to...

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Xpanceo, a Dubai startup, is building an AI XR contact lens

Roman Axelrod wants to put artificial intelligence directly inside your eye. His Dubai-based company Xpanceo is developing smart contact lenses that could make smartphones obsolete by embedding computing power into human vision...

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Sora 2 is OpenAI’s consistently inconsistent AI video creator

OpenAI's Sora 2 dramatically improves AI video generation with better motion tracking, realistic lighting, and convincing environmental physics like accurate shadows and water reflections. However, testing reveals the model...

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Want Futureproof Kids In The Age Of AI? Make Things Hard For Them.

Parents who constantly solve problems for their children weaken critical thinking and creativity skills needed for AI-dominated workplaces. Instead, encourage independent problem-solving and allow moderate challenges.

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AI eavesdropped on whale chatter. It may have helped find something new

AI analysis of sperm whale sounds revealed "clacks" in addition to typical "clicks," suggesting tonal communication similar to human vowels, though marine biologists dispute this as recording artifacts.

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OpenAI Releases GPT-5.1, Along With Renamed and New Personalities

OpenAI released GPT-5.1 with a warmer, more conversational default personality after users complained about the less emotionally engaging 5.0 model. The update includes six personality options including renamed "Efficient"...

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This Startup Is Racing Duolingo To Replace Human Language Tutors With AI

Former Thiel fellows created Speak, an AI language coach using voice-based roleplay, after seeing Seoul's English tutoring demand. The startup now serves 15 million users with $100M revenue but competes against Duolingo.

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