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LLM text data is drying up, but Meta points to unlabeled video as the next massive training frontier

A single AI model can learn text, images, and video simultaneously from scratch without the different modalities interfering with each other, according to a study by Meta FAIR and New York University.
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Anthropic launches internal think tank to study AI's impact on society and security

Anthropic has launched the "Anthropic Institute," an internal think tank dedicated to studying how powerful AI affects society, the economy, and security. The institute will be led by co-founder Jack ...
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An AI agent hacked McKinsey's internal AI platform in two hours using a decades-old technique

The security firm Codewall used an AI agent to gain full access to McKinsey's AI platform Lilli in two hours through a classic SQL injection. The system prompts controlling Lilli's behavior were ...
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Amazon makes senior engineers the human filter for AI-generated code after a series of outages

Following a series of allegedly AI-caused outages, Amazon is turning its senior engineers into human filters for AI-generated code. "Folks, as you likely know, the availability of the site and related ...
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Meta acquires Moltbook, the Reddit-style platform built for AI agents

Meta has acquired Moltbook, a platform designed as a kind of Reddit specifically for AI agents. According to Axios, founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr are joining Meta's Superintelligence Labs (MSL), ...
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Investors bet $1 billion on Yann LeCun's vision for AI beyond LLMs

Yann LeCun, former chief AI scientist at Meta and Turing Award winner, has raised over $1 billion for his new startup Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs) - making it Europe's largest seed ...
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Amazon gets court order blocking Perplexity's AI shopping agent

A federal court in San Francisco has granted Amazon an injunction against AI startup Perplexity, barring it from using its AI browser agent Comet to make purchases on Amazon. Amazon sued Perplexity in ...
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Nvidia and Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab announce long-term AI partnership

Nvidia and Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, are entering a long-term partnership. Thinking Machines will receive at least one gigawatt of compute ...
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Study warns of "AI Brain Fry" as workers hit cognitive limits overseeing AI agents

The productivity curve is particularly revealing. Going from one to two simultaneous AI tools, perceived productivity rises significantly. At three tools, it peaks. Beyond four, it drops again.
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Claude Code gets parallel AI agents that review code for bugs and security gaps

Anthropic has released a code review feature for Claude Code that automatically checks changes for errors before they're merged. Multiple AI agents work in parallel to catch bugs, security ...
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 saw through an AI test, cracked the encryption, and grabbed the answers itself

Anthropic's AI model Claude Opus 4.6 independently recognized that it was being tested in a web research benchmark, identified the specific benchmark, and cracked its encrypted answer key. After an ...
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A federal court in San Francisco has granted Amazon an injunction against AI startup Perplexity, barring it from using its AI browser agent Comet to make purchases on Amazon. Amazon sued Perplexity in ...