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Latest story• Dec 23, 2025

How to build agentic AI when your data can’t leave the network

Companies with strict data privacy requirements can now build AI systems using small language models that run locally instead of sending sensitive information to cloud services like GPT or Claude. By separating different AI tasks across specialized models under 3 billion parameters—using smaller models for classification and larger ones for reasoning—organizations can create secure, on-premise AI assistants that...

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Why AI Agents Need Their Own Identity, Not Yours

AI agents should operate with distinct identities rather than borrowing human credentials, as tying agents to human identities creates security risks and operational problems when employees leave or change roles. AuthZed CEO Jake...

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Splat’s app uses AI to turn your photos into coloring pages for kids

A new app called Splat is turning any smartphone photo into a personalized coloring book page, using artificial intelligence to transform family snapshots or stock images into cartoon-style outlines ready for crayons and markers....

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I tried Amazon's new AI assistant, and I'm never shopping without it again

Amazon's AI assistant Rufus helps shoppers find products, compare options, discover deals, and track deliveries through natural language conversations on the website and mobile apps. The tool successfully handled complex holiday...

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This Light-Powered AI Chip Is 100x Faster Than a Top Nvidia GPU

Chinese researchers have developed LightGen, an all-optical AI chip that uses light instead of electricity to generate images and videos. The chip integrates over two million artificial neurons into a quarter-square-inch device...

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ChatLLM Presents a Streamlined Solution to Addressing the Real Bottleneck in AI

AI users lose productivity switching between specialized tools despite powerful models being available. ChatLLM solves this by unifying AI capabilities into seamless workflows that preserve context and reduce friction.

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OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks

OpenAI admits prompt injection attacks on AI browsers like Atlas can't be fully eliminated. They developed automated testing tools and emphasize continuous security updates over permanent solutions.

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The Illustrated Transformer

This educational post explains how the Transformer neural network architecture works, breaking down its complex attention mechanisms into understandable components for machine translation tasks. The guide walks through the...

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Retailers Turn to AI and Robotics to Keep Christmas Fulfillment on Track

Major retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and Target are deploying AI and robotics as essential infrastructure to handle holiday shopping surges. AI systems now orchestrate real-time inventory positioning, route optimization, and...

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Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

Flock Security left at least 60 of its AI-powered Condor surveillance cameras exposed to the internet without password protection, allowing anyone to watch livestreams, download 30 days of video archives, and control camera...

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Manus launches AI design tool with image editing

Manus launched Design View, an AI tool that creates photorealistic interiors from text prompts with precise editing capabilities. The integrated platform combines generation, editing, and modifications in one interface across web...

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Scammers use AI to make fake art seem real

Fraudsters are increasingly using AI chatbots to create convincing fake art authentication documents, including forged invoices, appraisal certificates, and authenticity certificates. While false documentation has long plagued...

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Patronus AI announces Generative Simulators to provide adaptive training environments to agents

Patronus AI launched Generative Simulators that create adaptive training environments for AI agents, replacing static tests with dynamic scenarios. They also introduced Open Recursive Self-Improvement methodology for continuous...

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Anthropic takes the fight to OpenAI with enterprise AI tools - and they're going open source too

Anthropic open-sourced Agent Skills technology as an industry standard, with Microsoft adopting it in VS Code and GitHub. These reusable instruction bundles help AI perform specialized tasks without custom prompts.

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Can we interpret latent reasoning using current mechanistic interpretability tools?

Current mechanistic interpretability tools may be insufficient for decoding AI systems' hidden reasoning processes. This opacity poses significant challenges for AI safety, transparency, and developing trustworthy artificial...

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How I taught an AI to use a computer

A developer created an open-source AI agent that can control a computer by taking screenshots and using Meta's Llama 3.3 model to decide what actions to perform, such as clicking and typing to complete tasks like searching for...

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Multimodal LLMs Basics: How LLMs Process Text, Images, Audio & Videos

Multimodal Large Language Models overcome AI's traditional limitation of processing only one type of data by converting text, images, audio, and video into unified mathematical representations called embedding vectors. These...

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Nano Banana Pro is the best AI image generator, with caveats

Google released Nano Banana Pro, an upgraded AI image generator that surpasses the original Nano Banana with higher resolution output, better text rendering, and improved prompt understanding through its advanced Gemini 3 Pro...

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How to Build a Real-time AI Gym Coach with Vision Agents

Artificial intelligence can now watch your workout form and bark corrections like "Straighten your back!" in real time, thanks to a new tutorial that transforms any camera into a digital personal trainer. The comprehensive guide...

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Firefox will add an AI "kill switch" after community pushback

Mozilla's new CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo announced plans to transform Firefox into an "AI browser" with embedded artificial intelligence features, sparking fierce backlash from the open-source community who view AI integration as a...

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Meta is developing a new image and video model for a 2026 release, report says

Meta is developing AI models "Mango" (images/video) and "Avocado" (text) for 2026 release. These models aim to improve coding capabilities and help Meta catch up with OpenAI and Google.

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How Much Energy Does Each ChatGPT Prompt Really Use?

OpenAI's light bulb comparison for ChatGPT energy use ignores massive hidden costs from data centers, cooling systems, and infrastructure, making actual energy consumption substantially higher.

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Meta AI to get Memories and Custom Prompts soon

Meta AI is developing two hidden features called Memories and Custom Prompts that would allow the assistant to remember user details from past conversations and adapt its behavior based on personalized instructions. These...

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You can now tweak how warm and enthusiastic ChatGPT's responses are

OpenAI introduced new personality customization options for ChatGPT after users complained that the latest GPT-5.2 update made the AI sound too professional and rude. Users can now adjust warmth, enthusiasm, headers and lists,...

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