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US Copyright Office says fair use does not cover AI trained on "vast troves of copyrighted works
The US Copyright Office has pushed back against one of the AI industry's most common legal arguments: that training AI models on copyrighted material generally ...
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US think tank warns of "reverse brain drain" in China's AI sector
A new report highlights how Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is outperforming Western benchmarks with a research team that is almost entirely China-based—and what that means for the US’s position in global ...
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Bytedance launches Agent TARS, an open-source AI automation agent
Bytedance has introduced Agent TARS, an experimental open-source automation tool that visually processes web pages and interacts with the command line and file system, currently limited to macOS. The ...
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Google deploys AI in Chrome to detect and block online scams
Google is now using AI models to protect Chrome users from online scams. On desktop, the company has rolled out its local Gemini Nano language model to quickly spot fraudulent websites, including ones ...
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Soundcloud could train AI models on user data
Soundcloud changed its terms of use in February 2024 to allow uploaded music to be used for AI training. AI copyright activist Ed Newton-Rex spotted the change and ...
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OpenAI plans "cderGPT" for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
OpenAI is reportedly in discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about using AI to help evaluate pharmaceuticals, according to a new report from Wired. At the center of the talks ...
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Seedream 3.0 beats GPT-4os image generation, says ByteDance
ByteDance introduces Seedream 3.0, a new text-to-image model. Benchmarks suggest improvements over GPT-4o and Midjourney in speed, accuracy, and visual quality. ByteDance has released Seedream 3.0, a ...
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OpenAI adds new fine-tuning options for o4-mini and GPT-4.1
OpenAI has been developing reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) since last December, and it is now available for verified organizations using the o4-mini model. RFT uses a programmable evaluation system, ...
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Confident user prompts make LLMs more likely to hallucinate
Many language models are more likely to generate incorrect information when users request concise answers, according to a new benchmark study. The findings suggest a clear pattern: many models are ...
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Gemini Flash 2.5 becomes 150 times more expensive for reasoning tasks than Flash 2.0
Reasoning tasks sharply raise AI costs, according to a new analysis by Artificial Analysis. Google's Gemini Flash 2.5 costs 150 times more to run than Flash 2.0, due to using 17 times more tokens and ...
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Google recaps how its LLMs could change in-game interactions
In a recent blog post, the company summarized its announcements and showcased "Gemma Journey," a playable demo built to exhibit how large language models (LLMs) can be used in games. Gemma 3 is Google ...
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Web Dev in Qwen generates full front-end code from just a prompt
Running inside Qwen Chat, it lets users generate front-end code from a single instruction. A prompt like "Create a Twitter-like website" returns working HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—no coding skills or ...