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Deepmind's Hassabis sees humanity "in the foothills of the singularity" while Le Cun says current AI isn't intelligent

11+ hour, 58+ min ago  (249+ words) Three top researchers, three takes on where AI stands right now. Yann Le Cun, AI researcher at AMI Labs, suggests that current LLMs aren't intelligent, because real intelligence doesn't show up in accumulated knowledge or learned skills but when you…...

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Byte Dance study finds that asking LMMs questions beats making it transcribe text for long document training

11+ hour, 23+ min ago  (451+ words) Multimodal AI models are supposed to handle ever-longer documents, but how they're trained to do so usually stays a trade secret. A new study shows that character recognition as a training task actually hurts performance and that question-answer pairs work…...

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Why you shouldn't leave model selection on default in Copilot, Gemini and other AI tools

14+ hour, 34+ min ago  (549+ words) An experiment shows how Microsoft's AI assistant Copilot applies stereotypes when analyzing data instead of actually reading it. Thinking models solve the task but sometimes need users to know their tools. Microsoft Copilot has become the go-to tool for quick…...

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Researchers let Claude Code discover AI scaling algorithms that humans probably wouldn't have designed

16+ hour, 47+ min ago  (527+ words) Instead of writing rules for more efficient AI reasoning themselves, researchers let a coding agent hunt for better control algorithms in a simulated environment. The result beats established methods while burning far less compute. A research team from UMD, UVA,…...

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Alibaba's latest AI model ran autonomously for 35 hours to optimize code for its own custom chip

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (602+ words) Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen3. 7-Max, a proprietary model designed for agent-based tasks. In a real-world test, the model ran a fully autonomous kernel optimization for 35 hours straight. Like its predecessors Qwen3-Max and Qwen3. 6-Plus, the new Max version is only…...

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One of the world's top law schools draws a hard line against AI in legal education

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (212+ words) the-decoder. com One of the world's top law schools draws a hard line against AI in legal education Law is one of the fields where AI is shaking things up the most, for better and for worse. The tools speed…...

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Google CEO Pichai now calls links a "part" of search, redefining the web's role in its own product

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (320+ words) Google is shifting its narrative about its relationship with the open web, and it's not even subtle anymore. Google used to at least'try giving the impression'that the'open web was a partner for its AI offerings'and would get a fair shake....

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Anthropic warns Claude Mythos Preview finds bugs faster than developers can patch them

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (447+ words) A month after launching Project Glasswing, Anthropic is sharing its first results. The company says its Claude Mythos Preview AI model, working with about 50 partners, has found more than 10, 000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in system-critical software. The model now spots…...

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Open AI launches a Chat GPT Powerpoint plugin and warns it might accidentally delete your content

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (152+ words) the-decoder. com Open AI launches a Chat GPT Powerpoint plugin and warns it might accidentally delete your content The plugin can build new presentations from notes, documents, spreadsheets, or images, edit existing slides, and answer questions about a deck's structure,…...

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Deepseek reportedly prioritizes AGI research over quick profits despite billions in funding

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (208+ words) the-decoder. com Deepseek reportedly prioritizes AGI research over quick profits despite billions in funding Deepseek is on the verge of a 70 billion yuan (about 13. 2 billion Singapore dollars) funding round that could value the startup at around $45 billion. Founder Liang Wenfeng…...

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