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OpenAI puts ads inside ChatGPT image generation
OpenAI will start testing a visual ad format inside ChatGPT’s image generation later this month in the US, and says the ads will be…
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UK annual reports name AI as a risk far more often than they explain it
A study of 9,821 annual reports from 1,362 UK listed companies finds AI risk mentions rose from 2.8% to 41.2% between 2020 and 2025,…
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Google pauses one part of its open-source bug bounty, not all of it
Google has temporarily stopped taking product vulnerability reports for its open-source bug bounty, blaming a rise in automated submissions, though supply chain reports and…
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California signs thirteen AI bills, including a bar on AI-only firings
Governor Newsom has signed thirteen AI bills covering employment, workplace surveillance, healthcare and transparency, with SB 947 stopping employers from relying on AI alone…
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A new benchmark tests whether agents can turn an expert’s plan into a fast GPU kernel
D2K-Bench, published through Alibaba’s Qwen GitHub organisation, runs 26 kernel-writing tasks twice, with and without expert design guidance, and finds the guidance roughly doubles…
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Brussels names ten finalists for its Apply AI Startup Award
The European Commission has published the ten-company shortlist for its Apply AI Startup Award, with three winners to be picked after a pitching round…
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Bilibili open-sources a 150-language translation model family
The Chinese video platform Bilibili has released its Index-Translate models under Apache-2.0, covering 150 languages across 2B, 9B and a preview 35B mixture-of-experts configuration.
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A legal research benchmark marks the best agent fully correct on 43% of questions
A new benchmark marks a legal research answer correct only if every required point is covered and every citation checks out, and the strongest…
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AWS pledges $1bn to data centre communities and says it has dropped government NDAs
Amazon Web Services has committed $1 billion over five years to American communities hosting its data centres and says it no longer uses non-disclosure…
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Seventeen countries sign a Kyoto declaration on using AI in science
Seventeen governments have endorsed the Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science, promising researchers wider access to AI tools, data and computing infrastructure,…