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Moonshot AI closes $500 million Series C to fund Kimi-K3 development and expand computing capacity

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, the company behind the Kimi chatbot, has closed a $500 million Series C funding round. The deal values the company at $4.3 billion, according to an exclusive report ...
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LLMs could serve as world models for training AI agents, study finds

An international team of researchers has tested whether large language models can serve as world models: internal simulators that predict outcomes when an AI agent takes a specific action. After ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: OpenAI merges internal teams to fix audio AI accuracy gap ahead of ChatGPT hardware push OpenAI is building its planned ChatGPT hardware around conversation. To make that work ...
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Scientific AI models trained on different data are learning the same internal picture of matter, study finds

Researchers at MIT have compared 59 scientific AI models trained for different tasks, including chemical formulas, 3D atomic coordinates, and protein sequences. Despite different architectures and ...
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Security researchers catch "privacy" browser extensions siphoning AI chats and selling them via a data broker

The extensions intercept conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, and Meta AI. Even when the VPN is switched off, data collection continues in the background.
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OpenAI's Sam Altman warned of AI's "superhuman persuasion" in 2023, and 2025 proved him right

In October 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicted that "very strange outcomes" would happen when AI gained superhuman powers of persuasion. This year made clear just how right he was—and how dangerous ...
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Resemble AI drops Chatterbox Turbo, an open-source text-to-speech model that clones voices in five seconds

AI startup Resemble AI is taking on Elevenlabs with "Chatterbox Turbo," an open text-to-speech model that can clone voices from just five seconds of audio. The company claims its new model beats both ...
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OpenAI seeks new "Head of Preparedness" for AI risks like cyberattacks and mental health

OpenAI is hiring a Head of Preparedness. The position focuses on safety risks posed by AI models. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman points to the now well-documented effects of AI models on mental health as one ...
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The ARC benchmark's fall marks another casualty of relentless AI optimization

Update from December 25, 2025: Poetiq has raised the bar even higher on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark. The AI startup achieved a 75 percent accuracy rate on the public test dataset using OpenAI's GPT-5.2 ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Read full article about: OpenAI releases new models for its Realtime API OpenAI has updated its Realtime API with three new model snapshots designed to improve transcription, speech synthesis, and ...
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Google launches new AI agent to help plan your day

The experimental productivity assistant called CC comes from Google Labs and runs on Gemini. After signing up, CC connects to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and the internet to understand your ...
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Gemini gets direct access to NotebookLM data

Google is linking its NotebookLM research tool directly to the Gemini chatbot. This integration lets users select specific notebooks as context for their Gemini queries, effectively expanding the ...