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time.com — The embattled AI data annotation firm Sama is winding down its operations and liquidating its assets, according to a letter to creditors reviewed by TIME.
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time.com — The embattled AI data annotation firm Sama is winding down its operations and liquidating its assets, according to a letter to creditors reviewed by TIME.
aistockwire.com — Disney and Adobe announced a multi-year deal for Adobe to build private AI models trained on Disney's characters, months after Disney's OpenAI deal ended.
techpolicy.press — Language and code now flow back and forth across the executable boundary condition all but interchangeably, writes Matthew Kirschenbaum.
www.fastcompany.com — The companies helping unleash a new era of cybersecurity threats are also positioning themselves to profit from the response.
www.engadget.com — The kind of AI models you can run depends on your machine's power. Let's unpack what your everyday PC will need, and how much it will cost you.
www.forbes.com — The ability to transform intelligence into trusted decisions and measurable outcomes will define the next era of enterprise AI.
www.businessinsider.com — ChatGPT has more than 81% of traffic to six major AI chatbots, Graphite found, as growth resumes and Claude and Gemini remain far behind.
www.zdnet.com — These AI agents aren’t quite ready for prime time, but five upgrades could make them much more useful.
www.cio.com — Recent AI incidents show why CIOs need enforceable limits on agent actions and independent evidence before calling the work complete.
thenextweb.com — SoftBank Group reports results on Tuesday after an 11% share drop, record credit risk and China’s block on its $5.4bn ABB robotics deal.
www.forbes.com — Imagine being a founder who wants to start a startup. You won't need to hire a team of humans as a first port of call.
The Register — Altman, Torvalds, Yen. One has got his head screwed on. The others could do with some grounding
The Guardian — The same technical limits that prevent superintelligence make these systems dangerous. But we know how to regulate them
www.businessinsider.com — "It was taking a few days, and the movers still hadn't been finalized, so I looked at what it was doing," Robert Farlow said. "It was mayhem."
restofworld.org — Startups like MiniMax and Moonshot are setting up U.S. outposts, but massive pay gaps, weaker prestige, and national security tensions make luring talent away from OpenAI and Anthropic an uphill climb.
forkast.news — The v0.24.0-alpha.7 pre-release changes environment execution defaults, MCP approval values and reasoning defaults for three named models.
The Decoder — Turing Award winner Richard Sutton reaffirms that raw compute alone isn't enough for intelligence and that fundamentally new learning methods are needed. Ex-OpenAI researcher Tworek agrees, saying blind transformer scaling "has reward hacked brains of a whole generation of scientists." A growing wave of startups is already betting on exactly this gap.
ppc.land — Regulator treats LLMoin's GPT model as likely not anonymous but cleared it for Hamburg agencies via filters. Can private deployers use the same EDPB reading?
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