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Google brings AI music generation to Gemini with Deepmind's Lyria 3

Google is integrating Lyria 3, an AI music generator developed by Google Deepmind, directly into the Gemini app, allowing users to create music from simple text prompts. The model generates 30-second ...
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Nvidia lands massive Meta deal and pushes into CPU market to fend off growing competition

Meta has signed a multi-year contract with Nvidia that covers millions of chips: in addition to Blackwell and Rubin GPUs, the independent Grace and Vera CPUs are also being used for the first time.
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Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises one billion dollars for "spatial intelligence"

World Labs, the AI startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has raised one billion dollars in a new funding round. Backers include Autodesk, Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and AMD, according to a blog ...
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Anthropic and Infosys team up to build AI agents for regulated industries

Anthropic and Indian IT giant Infosys are jointly developing AI agents for regulated industries. The partnership focuses on telecommunications, finance, manufacturing, and software development. The ...
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Context files for coding agents often don't help - and may even hurt performance

ETH Zurich researchers found that auto-generated context files like AGENTS.md don't help coding agents in most cases - they worsened performance in five out of eight test settings and drove up ...
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Anthropic still won't give the Pentagon unrestricted access to its AI models

Anthropic is demanding safeguards to prevent its AI tools from being used for autonomous weapons control without human oversight or for surveillance of American citizens. The Pentagon insists it can ...
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Qwen-Image-2.0 renders ancient Chinese calligraphy and PowerPoint slides with near-perfect text accuracy

Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.0, a 7-billion-parameter model that handles both image generation and image processing in one package, at a fraction of the size of comparable models. One ...
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OpenAI reportedly launches ChatGPT ads at premium TV prices

OpenAI is reportedly charging around $60 per 1,000 impressions for ChatGPT ads, pricing that matches premium TV spots like NFL games rather than typical online advertising. The company is also billing ...
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Anthropic launches Claude for Healthcare one week after OpenAI's hospital push

Anthropic launched Claude for Healthcare one week after OpenAI's similar announcement, offering HIPAA-compliant AI tools with access to Medicare databases, ICD-10 coding, and over 35 million PubMed ...
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Google brings personalized discounts to AI search and launches open commerce protocol

The search giant is rolling out personalized discount ads in its AI mode and introducing an open protocol designed to tie retailers more closely to the Google ecosystem. In practice, users will soon ...
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China captured the global lead in open-weight AI development during 2025, Stanford analysis shows

At least a dozen Chinese institutions now produce state-of-the-art AI models, and in terms of global distribution, they've apparently already overtaken their US competitors, according to a new ...
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OpenAI launches healthcare product line, signs up major US hospitals

OpenAI has introduced "OpenAI for Healthcare," a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT and its API, with partners including Boston Children's Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and ...