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Jonathan Kemper

Google unveiled the new Coral Board at Google I/O - a compact single-board computer for on-device AI. The board features the Coral NPU, an open-source machine learning unit built on the RISC-V ...
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Claude Mythos reportedly solves OpenAI's landmark Erdős problem with a "cute, simple proof"

The team used a test system built after AI solved Erdős problem #1196: isolated Claude Code instances with Mythos access receive the problem, develop solution paths, and then one instance summarizes ...
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China reportedly now requires top AI researchers to get permission before leaving the country

China is now restricting overseas travel for top AI researchers at private companies like Alibaba and DeepSeek. Those affected need official approval before leaving the country. Beijing fears data ...
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Google Deepmind's AlphaProof Nexus solves decades-old math problems for a few hundred dollars

AlphaProof Nexus combines LLM-driven proof generation with machine verification to crack open math research problems that have stumped mathematicians for decades. Google Deepmind's new framework ...
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George Hotz says coding agents will be "one of the most costly mistakes" in software development

Prominent programmer and hacker George Hotz warns that AI agents in software development do more harm than good. He says he's now in the "LeCun/Marcus camp," referring to AI researchers Yann LeCun and ...
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The AI justice gap solution is slowly turning into an existential paperwork nightmare for US federal courts

A new study from MIT and the University of Southern California shows that lawsuits filed without a lawyer at US federal courts have nearly doubled since ChatGPT went mainstream. One in five complaints ...
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SpaceX IPO filing shows billions in AI losses, a $2 trillion valuation target, and turbine spending that signals more data center conflicts ahead

SpaceX has filed its IPO paperwork with the SEC, revealing detailed financials. The xAI division is burning through billions, Anthropic pays $15 billion a year for compute, and Elon Musk locks in near ...
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Deepseek wants to take on Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex with "Deepseek Code"

The company is hiring a product manager and a developer, both heavy users of tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or GitHub Copilot. They'll work closely with the model research team. The product ...
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Anthropic is about to become the first profitable AI lab

Anthropic expects $559 million in operating profit for Q2 on $10.9 billion in revenue, the WSJ reports. The main drivers: coding tools seeing massive demand and Claude's agentic task processing.
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AI-hallucinated citations are creeping into papers that shape clinical guidelines, researchers warn

Researchers at Columbia University and other institutions show in a study that the rate of fabricated references in biomedical papers has increased more than twelvefold since 2023. The authors see ...
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Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash follows Anthropic and OpenAI in making newer AI models significantly pricier

Google Deepmind has released Gemini 3.5 Flash, a new AI model that delivers more than 280 output tokens per second, making it the fastest model in its intelligence class, though it comes at 5.5 times ...
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Elon Musk appeals $134 billion OpenAI loss, calls verdict a "calendar technicality"

Musk announced on X that he will appeal, calling the verdict a "calendar technicality." His argument: the core question of whether OpenAI's commercial arm unlawfully enriched itself through the ...