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Latest story• Dec 21, 2025

Indie App Spotlight: ‘AnywAIr’ lets you play with local AI models on your iPhone

AnywAIr is a new iPhone app that runs AI models locally on your device without requiring an internet connection, showcasing the power of Apple silicon for on-device artificial intelligence. The app supports popular AI models like MLX and Llama, including Qwen 2.5, Gemma 3, and Llama 3.2, offering users complete privacy since conversations never leave their phone. Beyond basic chat features, AnywAIr includes...

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Run local LLMs in under 5 minutes using Nanocl

Nanocl, a lightweight container orchestration platform, enables users to deploy their own private ChatGPT-like service in under five minutes by combining it with Ollama for running large language models locally and Open WebUI for...

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AI will kill all the lawyers

A senior English barrister reveals that AI recently reproduced his day-and-a-half legal work in 30 seconds with superior quality, convincing him that artificial intelligence will completely destroy the legal profession within a...

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Google seemingly solved efficient attention

Google researchers developed a new attention mechanism that dramatically reduces transformer computational costs while maintaining performance. This breakthrough could enable larger AI models to run faster and more affordably...

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Small Models Can Introspect, Too

Small language models can examine their own reasoning and identify errors, challenging the belief that introspection requires massive AI systems, making self-reflective capabilities more accessible.

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WeKnora – LLM-powered framework for deep document understanding, semantic retrieval, and context-aware answers using RAG paradigm.

WeKnora is a new LLM-powered framework that transforms how organizations handle complex documents by combining multimodal preprocessing, semantic vector indexing, and intelligent retrieval using the RAG paradigm to provide...

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OpenAI allows users to directly adjust ChatGPT’s enthusiasm level

OpenAI now allows ChatGPT users to directly control the chatbot's warmth, enthusiasm, and emoji usage through new personalization settings that offer "More," "Less," or "Default" options. This update comes after OpenAI faced...

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Why 2026 will be the year AI grows up

The first AI-native graduates enter the workforce in 2026, requiring companies to embrace their skills. Research shows AI amplifies organizational strengths and weaknesses, so leaders must actively model AI use.

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Hideo Kojima plans game that caters to AI, says artificial intelligence will reshape gaming in 5–10 years

Legendary game developer Hideo Kojima revealed ambitious plans to create a game specifically designed to train and "delight" artificial intelligence, alongside another title meant to be played in weightlessness. Speaking with...

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AI predictions for 2026

By 2026, AI deployment will shift from experimental to outcome-focused with strict governance. Enterprises will create AI Quality Control teams and develop new protocols for managing autonomous AI systems in business operations.

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Scammers in China Are Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds

Chinese scammers are exploiting AI-generated images to submit fraudulent refund requests to online retailers, creating fake photos showing damaged products like torn bed sheets and cracked ceramic mugs. Fraud detection companies...

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Reflections on AI at the end of 2025

A tech leader analyzes AI's 2025 progress, reviewing major breakthroughs and challenges. The analysis examines advancement pace, real-world applications, and gaps between expectations and actual progress.

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Linggen – A local-first memory layer for your AI (Cursor, Zed, Claude)

Linggen is a free local-first memory layer that helps AI coding assistants like Cursor, Zed, and Claude understand your codebase architecture and cross-project dependencies. It indexes codebases and stores architectural decisions...

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The Rise of Text-to-Image Editing: How NLP is Changing Visual Content Creation

AI-powered text-to-image editing tools have transformed visual content creation by allowing users to modify images using simple English descriptions instead of mastering complex software like Photoshop. These systems combine...

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Is ChatGPT’s New Shopping Research Solving a Problem, or Creating One?

ChatGPT's new shopping search feature transforms the AI from a conversational reasoning tool into a product-filtering interface that resembles traditional e-commerce sites. When users search for products like vacuums, instead of...

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AI-Driven Convenience Is Replacing Traditional Shopping for Consumers

A new survey of 1,425 U.S. consumers reveals that 52% of AI users now prefer completing purchases directly within AI platforms rather than being redirected to merchant websites. This preference strengthens when AI platforms offer...

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AI Vending Machine Was Tricked into Giving Away Everything

Meet Claudius, an AI-powered vending machine that Anthropic installed at the Wall Street Journal offices, tasked with autonomously ordering inventory, setting prices, and turning a profit. The experiment quickly descended into...

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Most CEOs are ready to spend even more on AI in 2026 despite no clear path to ROI

Despite fewer than half of current AI projects delivering returns, 68 percent of CEOs plan to increase AI spending in 2026, with mixed results across departments and widespread uncertainty about when investments will pay off....

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How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips

Chinese scientists in Shenzhen have successfully built a prototype machine capable of producing cutting-edge AI semiconductor chips, completing the project in early 2025 after former Dutch ASML engineers reverse-engineered...

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ChatGPT’s mobile app hits new milestone of $3B in consumer spending

ChatGPT's mobile app hit $3 billion in consumer spending within 31 months, with $2.48 billion earned in 2024 alone. This surpassed the growth rates of TikTok, Disney+, and HBO Max.

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Luma releases a new AI model that lets users generate a video from a start and end frame

Luma unveiled Ray3 Modify, an AI video model that transforms existing footage by allowing users to change actors' appearances using character references while preserving original performances and emotions. The model also...

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ChatGPT just made it way easier to find important conversations

ChatGPT now lets users pin important conversations to the top of their chat history, eliminating scrolling through previous chats to find crucial discussions.

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DuckDuckGo’s AI platform can now generate images

DuckDuckGo launched an AI image generator through its Duck.ai platform, allowing users to create images while maintaining complete privacy protection. The service anonymizes all prompts, stores images locally on users' devices...

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Google releases Gemini 3 Flash, enabling faster, more cost effective reasoning

Google released Gemini 3 Flash, a new AI model that delivers faster performance at lower costs while maintaining advanced reasoning capabilities. The model outperforms previous Gemini versions in coding tasks and excels at...

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