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Open-source chatbot coalition shows public-interest AI can ship real products
A coalition of 10 organizations built an open-source chatbot in seven weeks to prove public-interest AI can compete with Big Tech.
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NVIDIA brings agentic AI into creative tools and launches Cosmos 3 Edge at SIGGRAPH
NVIDIA unveiled Cosmos 3 Edge and MCP integrations for creative apps at SIGGRAPH 2026, advancing…
AMD debuts 256-core Zen 6 Venice chip and MI400 accelerator at AI event
AMD launched its EPYC Venice processor on TSMC 2nm and the Instinct MI400 accelerator at…
Google’s SynthID Deepfake Detector Used to Debunk McConnell Hoax Image
Google's SynthID watermarking system identified a viral AI-generated image of Senator Mitch McConnell as synthetic,…
Satya Nadella warns companies using AI are paying twice
The Microsoft CEO says enterprises unknowingly hand over proprietary knowledge when using third-party AI models.
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Inside Amazon’s AI Pressure Cooker: Employees Resort to ‘Tokenmaxxing’ to Meet Usage Metrics
Amazon employees are artificially inflating AI tool usage metrics, known as 'tokenmaxxing,' in response to internal pressure and competitive dashboards,…
Anthropic Lets Claude Agents Sleep On It. Here Is What That Means.
Anthropic's new 'dreaming' feature for Claude Managed Agents is a robotic memory curation process that sounds poetic but is really…
Musk Buries the Hatchet: SpaceX Hands Anthropic a Data Center, But at What Cost?
Anthropic’s cozy new compute deal with SpaceX, valued at over 300 megawatts, solves its immediate capacity crisis but signals a…
Google’s Dark Patterns Trap Gemini Users Into Handing Over Their Data
Google's Gemini integration uses dark patterns like forced actions and hidden menus to make privacy opt outs punitive, trapping users…
GitHub Ditches All You Can Eat Copilot Pricing. The AI Token Bubble Has Burst.
The company is effectively ending the era of flat rate unlimited coding assistance as agentic AI tools caused inference costs…
SAP Builds a Walled Garden for Enterprise AI and Throws $1.16B at Tabular Data
Prior Labs' founders pocketed over half a billion in cash as SAP builds a gated AI ecosystem that embraces Nvidia's…
The Silicon Cornfield Revolt: Why Rural America Is Fighting Big Tech’s Land Grab
Rural communities from Illinois to West Virginia are killing data center projects over water consumption and land grabs, forcing Big…
The Clippening Is Faking Sex Scenes with Actors’ Faces, and Nobody Cares
Micro drama studios are using generative AI to paste actors' faces onto explicit body doubles for fake sex scene advertisements,…
