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OpenAI's upcoming Codex update will hit the company's "High" cybersecurity risk level for the first time

OpenAI is planning several releases around its code model Codex in the coming weeks. The announcement comes with a warning about the model's capabilities. CEO Sam Altman announced on X that new ...
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Google AI Search taps Gmail and Photos for personalized results

Google is connecting Gmail and Google Photos to its AI-powered search. Subscribers to Google AI Pro and Ultra in the US can now opt in to share their emails and photos for personalized search results.
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Ollama brings local AI image generation to Mac

Ollama, the popular software for running AI models locally, now supports image generation on macOS. The feature is still experimental, with Windows and Linux support coming later. Two models are ...
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Thinking Machines could face tough questions from investors after talent exodus

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, lost five employees last week, including fired co-founder and CTO Barret Zoph, with four of them joining OpenAI. The ...
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OpenAI starts selling ChatGPT ads, charges by views instead of clicks

OpenAI has started offering ad placements in ChatGPT to dozens of advertisers, with the first ads expected in early February and companies asked to spend under one million dollars each for a ...
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Flux 2 small brings AI image generation and editing to consumer graphics cards

German AI startup Black Forest Labs presents Flux 2 small, a family of models that combines text-to-image generation, image processing, and multi-reference generation in one compact model and runs on ...
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Deepmind and Anthropic CEOs expect AI to hit entry-level jobs and internships in 2026

Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) are already seeing early signs of AI's impact on the job market. Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Hassabis said entry-level jobs and ...
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South Koreans now spend more on AI subscriptions than Netflix each month

South Koreans now spend more per month on AI subscriptions than on Netflix. According to Hankyung Aicel, payments for seven AI services, including ChatGPT and Gemini, hit an estimated 80.3 billion won ...
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Salesforce releases new AI slackbot based on Anthropic's Claude

Salesforce has launched a new Slackbot built on Anthropic's Claude AI model. According to co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Parker Harris, the company is also testing alternatives. The AI ...
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Deepseek reportedly had to fall back on Nvidia chips for new model

Chinese AI startup Deepseek had to abandon domestic chips from Huawei and switch to allegedly smuggled Nvidia hardware to train its upcoming flagship model, a setback that highlights China's ongoing ...
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Even the best AI models fail at visual tasks toddlers handle easily

A new study exposes a fundamental weakness in today's AI systems: even the most capable multimodal language models can't handle basic visual tasks that toddlers master before they learn to speak.
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Meta shuts down AI character access for minors following reports of problematic chats Meta is cutting off access to AI characters for teenagers around the globe. Starting in ...