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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 insists its shopping suggestions shouldn't be seen as advertising

Paid users of ChatGPT recently saw a prompt asking them to connect their account with Target for shopping, which some interpreted as an advertisement. But an OpenAI product manager denied that any ...
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DeepseekMath-V2 is Deepseek's latest attempt to pop the US AI bubble

Chinese AI start-up Deepseek has introduced DeepseekMath-V2, an AI model that achieves gold medal-level results in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). The model can evaluate and iteratively ...
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As Google pulls ahead, OpenAI's comeback plan is codenamed 'Shallotpeat'

According to an internal memo from The Information, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned staff that Google's recent AI progress with Gemini 3 could create "temporary economic headwinds" for the company, as ...
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OLMo 3 debuts as the first fully open "thinking" model with step-by-step logic exposed to users

The Allen Institute for AI has launched OLMo 3, a new generation of fully transparent AI models, including the first openly available 32B model that reveals its reasoning processes. OLMo 3 offers ...
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Tech giants take on record debt to finance the AI race

Major tech players like Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon are spending unprecedented amounts to scale up their AI infrastructure. In the past three months alone, these companies have invested a ...
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AI researcher Andrej Karpathy says agentic AI is years away from matching industry hype

Andrej Karpathy believes that current agent-based AI systems are overestimated and face clear limitations, particularly in areas such as reasoning, handling multiple types of input, memory, and ...
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Alibaba releases Qwen3 compact open source multimodal models

Alibaba's Qwen group has released two new small-scale multimodal models, Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct and Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking, each with 3 billion active parameters. According to Qwen, both ...
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Terence Tao says ChatGPT saved him hours solving a math problem

Mathematician Terence Tao used ChatGPT to help solve a math problem, finding the AI particularly helpful for generating Python code, spotting errors, and selecting parameters, saving him hours of ...
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Musk's xAI reports 64 million monthly Grok users, far behind ChatGPT

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has reached 64 million monthly users for its Grok chatbot - far below OpenAI's ChatGPT with roughly 700 million weekly users, according to the New York Times. Despite ...
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OpenAI outperforms humans and Google at the world's top collegiate programming contest

OpenAI’s system outperformed all human teams and Google Deepmind at the 2025 ICPC World Finals, solving every one of the contest’s 12 programming problems under standard competition conditions. The ...