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The AI industry is running out of compute, with outages, rationing, and rising GPU prices

Surging demand for agentic AI is creating a massive capacity crisis. According to the Wall Street Journal, Anthropic's API availability sits at just 98.95 percent, well below the industry standard of ...
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Apple is building smart glasses without a display to serve as an AI wearable

According to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, Apple is developing smart glasses that skip the display entirely and instead function as an AI wearable. The glasses are part of a three-device strategy - ...
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Claude now works across all three major Office apps

Anthropic brings Claude directly into Microsoft Word. Anthropic already offered Claude add-ins for Excel and PowerPoint. Now the company is rounding out its Microsoft Office integration with a Word ...
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Anthropic signs multi-gigawatt TPU deal with Google and Broadcom

Anthropic has signed a deal with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of TPU computing capacity, set to come online starting in 2027. Most of the infrastructure will be built in the United ...
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AI benchmarks systematically ignore how humans disagree, Google study finds

A Google study finds that the standard three to five human raters per test example often aren't enough for reliable AI ...
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Alibaba's Qwen team makes AI models think deeper with new algorithm

Alibaba's Qwen team has developed a new training algorithm for reasoning models that assigns different weights to individual tokens based on how much each step influences the subsequent chain of ...
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Meta's new AI model predicts how your brain reacts to images, sounds, and speech

A new AI model from Meta predicts how the human brain reacts to images, sounds, and speech. In tests, it often matched the typical brain response better than any single person's scan. Brain research ...
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Disney pulls out of OpenAI partnership after Sora app and API gets killed just months after launch

OpenAI is shutting down its Sora AI video app and API, with the Sora team thanking the community and promising more details on timelines and how users can save their created work. Disney is pulling ...
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly teases a "very strong" model internally that can "really accelerate the economy"

OpenAI has reportedly finished pretraining its new AI model, codenamed "Spud," CEO Sam Altman told employees in an internal memo, according to The Information. Altman said the company expects to have ...
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Google AI Studio now lets you vibe code real-time multiplayer games

Google has launched a new vibe coding feature in Google AI Studio that lets non-programmers and programmers alike turn ideas into working apps using natural language. Users describe what they want, ...
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OpenAI ships GPT-5.4 mini and nano, faster and more capable but up to 4x pricier

OpenAI has launched two new compact models, GPT-5.4 mini and nano, specifically optimized for coding, subagents, and computer control. In its Codex platform, OpenAI showcases a subagent architecture ...
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OpenAI's own wellbeing advisors warned against erotic mode, called it a "sexy suicide coach"

OpenAI's wellbeing advisory board reportedly voted unanimously against the company's planned Adult Mode for ChatGPT. Internally, the company is struggling with an error-prone age detection system and ...