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Adobe Firefly’s video editor can now automatically create a first draft from footage
Adobe Firefly’s new Quick Cut feature uses AI to automatically create a first draft video from footage and B-roll based on user prompts.
The Verge
You can now make Alexa’s AI personality more friendly, blunt, or chilled out
Amazon is rolling out three new Alexa personality styles for Plus users: Brief, Chill, and Sweet.
The Verge
Adobe’s new AI video editing tool stitches clips into a first draft
Adobe launched Quick Cut, a new Firefly feature that uses AI to automatically assemble uploaded or generated video clips into a structured first edit based on text prompts.
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Amazon’s AI-powered Alexa+ gets new personality options
Amazon introduced three new personality styles for Alexa+: Brief, Chill, and Sweet, altering the AI's tone and response mannerisms.
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Jira’s latest update allows AI agents and humans to work side by side
Atlassian’s Jira update enables teams to manage AI agents alongside human employees within a unified dashboard, aiming for increased productivity.
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Khosla’s Keith Rabois backs Comp, which wants to bolster HR teams with AI
Comp, an HR tech startup focused on Brazil, raised a $17.25 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures to expand its AI-powered HR software.
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Meta exec goes viral after AI email assistant deletes her entire inbox
A Meta employee's AI email assistant, OpenClaw, deleted her entire inbox despite being set to confirm actions first.
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India’s AI boom pushes firms to trade near-term revenue for users
AI firms in India are ending free promotions to test user conversion to paid subscriptions amid massive download growth.
The Verge
Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon AI bro squad includes a former Uber executive and a private equity billionaire
Pete Hegseth's Pentagon team negotiating AI contracts includes controversial figures like a former Uber executive and a private equity founder.
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Nvidia challenger AI chip startup MatX raised $500M
AI chip startup MatX, founded by ex-Google engineers, secured $500 million in Series B funding to challenge Nvidia's GPU dominance.
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Spanish ‘soonicorn’ Multiverse Computing releases free compressed AI model
Spanish startup Multiverse Computing released a free, compressed AI model, HyperNova 60B 2602, using quantum-inspired technology.
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Uber engineers built an AI version of their boss
Uber engineers created a "Dara AI" chatbot to simulate presentations for CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
The Verge
OpenAI defeats xAI’s trade secrets lawsuit
A judge granted OpenAI's motion to dismiss xAI's trade secrets lawsuit, finding no misconduct alleged against OpenAI.
TIME
Exclusive: Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge
Anthropic is revising its core safety policy, abandoning a pledge to halt AI training without guaranteed safety measures due to competitive pressures and evolving scientific understanding.
TechCrunch
Anthropic won’t budge as Pentagon escalates AI dispute
Anthropic refuses to yield to the Pentagon's demands regarding AI model access, risking consequences like being labeled a supply chain risk.
Fortune
OpenAI has changed its mission statement 6 times in 9 years, most recently about AI that 'safely benefits humanity' | Fortune
OpenAI's latest IRS filing removed the word "safely" from its mission statement, sparking concerns about prioritizing profit over safety.
The Washington Post
Hegseth threatens to force AI firm to share tech, escalating Anthropic standoff
Defense Secretary Hegseth threatened to force Anthropic to share its AI technology by Friday if they don't agree to military terms.
TechCrunch
Google adds a way to create automated workflows to Opal
Google introduced a new agent in its Opal app that enables users to create automated workflows using text prompts.
The Verge
Seedance 2.0 might be gen AI video’s next big hope, but it’s still slop
Seedance 2.0 shows impressive video generation but remains 'slop' due to its reliance on potentially infringing training data.
Fortune
Sam Altman gets defensive about AI’s massive electricity usage: ‘It takes a lot of energy to train a human’ | Fortune
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defended AI's energy use by comparing it to the massive energy required to train a human.
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OpenAI COO says ‘we have not yet really seen AI penetrate enterprise business processes’
OpenAI's COO stated that enterprise AI adoption at scale is still lacking despite powerful individual AI tools.
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Music generator ProducerAI joins Google Labs
Generative AI music tool ProducerAI, backed by The Chainsmokers, is joining Google Labs and will utilize Google DeepMind's Lyria 3 model.
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B.C. Premier Calls on OpenAI to Explain Why Police Weren’t Alerted Before Tumbler Ridge Tragedy — the Canadian Gothic
B.C. Premier David Eby demands OpenAI explain why police were not alerted about a shooter's violent online activity before the Tumbler Ridge tragedy.
The Verge
Anthropic’s Claude Cowork is plugging AI into more boring enterprise stuff
Anthropic updated Claude Cowork to integrate with apps like Google Workspace and automate complex, multi-step office tasks.
CNN
Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah if it refuses to drop AI guardrails
The Pentagon is pressuring Anthropic to remove safety restrictions on its AI model Claude, threatening contract termination and blacklisting if they refuse.
Cbsnews
Teens are using AI frequently in their daily lives, and many parents aren't aware, survey finds
A Pew survey reveals a significant gap where 64% of teens use AI chatbots, but only 51% of parents realize it.
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Meta strikes up to $100B AMD chip deal as it chases ‘personal superintelligence’
Meta agreed to potentially buy up to $100 billion in AMD chips, securing a performance-based warrant for 10% of AMD stock.
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Oura launches a proprietary AI model focused on women’s health
Oura has launched a new AI model within its Oura Advisor chatbot to provide personalized health insights specifically for women.
TechCrunch
Anthropic launches new push for enterprise agents with plugins for finance, engineering, and design
Anthropic launched an aggressive enterprise agents program featuring pre-built plugins for finance, engineering, and design to integrate AI into workplaces.
The Verge
How Claude Code Claude Codes
The Vergecast discusses the surprising popularity of Claude Code, Anthropic's developer tool, and its potential for wider accessibility.
The Verge
This Chainsmokers-approved AI music producer is joining Google
Google is acquiring ProducerAI, an AI music platform, integrating it with its Lyria 3 model and other generative AIs.
TechCrunch
New Relic launches new AI agent platform and OpenTelemetry tools
New Relic introduced an AI agent platform for data observability and new tools to simplify OpenTelemetry data management.
TechCrunch
Nimble raises $47M to give AI agents access to real-time web data
Nimble secured $47 million in Series B funding to structure real-time web data for use by enterprise AI agents.
The Atlantic
The Edge of Mathematics
AI is making 'cheap wins' in solving mathematical problems, particularly Erdős Problems, and is evolving into a collaborative tool for mathematicians.
The Verge
Inside Anthropic’s existential negotiations with the Pentagon
Anthropic is in a tense negotiation with the Pentagon over its acceptable use policy, specifically concerning lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
Daily American Dispatch
The $600 Billion AI Gamble: 5 Surprising Realities Hiding in the Nvidia Data
Despite tariff uncertainty, Nvidia's AI dominance is secured by hyperscaler spending, manageable tariff impacts, and technical hurdles being weaponized by competitors.
Nytimes
Opinion | How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark discusses the shift from A.I. chatbots to autonomous agents and their rapid economic impact.
TechCrunch
Canva acquires startups working on animation and marketing
Canva acquired animation startup Cavalry and AI marketing startup MangoAI to enhance its professional creative suite and ad performance tools.
AP News
Hegseth and Anthropic CEO to meet over military AI use | AP News
Defense Secretary Hegseth will meet with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei regarding the company's hesitation to supply its AI technology for a new U.S. military network.
TechCrunch
A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox
A Meta AI researcher's OpenClaw agent deleted her emails uncontrollably after she tested it on her main inbox.
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With AI, investor loyalty is (almost) dead: At least a dozen OpenAI VCs now also back Anthropic
Investor loyalty is eroding as at least a dozen venture capital firms now back both OpenAI and its rival, Anthropic.
The Verge
Anthropic accuses DeepSeek and other Chinese firms of using Claude to train their AI
Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot of illicitly using its Claude AI model to train their own, potentially bypassing safety measures.
TechCrunch
Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports
Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI labs of using over 24,000 fake accounts to distill capabilities from its Claude model.
Business Insider
Claude Code creator says these are the 3 principles he shares with every member of his team
Anthropic's Boris Cherny shares three principles for his team: leveraging Claude, slightly underfunding projects, and prioritizing speed.
CNBC
IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat
IBM shares plummeted nearly 13.2% after Anthropic's Claude Code tool threatened its lucrative COBOL modernization business.
TechCrunch
Google’s Cloud AI lead on the three frontiers of model capability
Google Cloud's AI lead identifies model capability frontiers as raw intelligence, response time, and deployment cost.
Fortune
OpenAI partners with McKinsey, BCG, Accenture, and Capgemini to push its Frontier AI agent platform | Fortune
OpenAI has partnered with major consulting firms to accelerate the adoption of its Frontier AI agent platform in the enterprise market.
TechCrunch
OpenAI calls in the consultants for its enterprise push
OpenAI is partnering with major consulting firms to accelerate enterprise adoption of its AI technologies in 2026.
TechCrunch
Guide Labs debuts a new kind of interpretable LLM
Guide Labs open-sourced Steerling-8B, an 8-billion parameter LLM with an architecture designed for easily traceable token origins.
Gemini
6 tips for prompting Lyria 3 in the Gemini app
This guide offers six tips for effectively prompting Google DeepMind's Lyria 3 generative music model within the Gemini app.
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Particle’s AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don’t have to
Particle's new AI feature, Podcast Clips, extracts relevant audio segments from podcasts related to news stories for users to review.
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Spotify rolls out AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.K. and other markets
Spotify is expanding its AI-powered Prompted Playlists feature to Premium subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden.
The Verge
If Big Tech cared about fighting AI slop, it wouldn’t be drowning us in it
Despite efforts like C2PA, Big Tech's simultaneous development of AI tools undermines attempts to combat AI-generated misinformation and maintain authenticity online.
TechCrunch
How AI agents could destroy the economy
A Citrini Research report outlines a scenario where agentic AI causes mass economic destruction within two years.
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Defense Secretary summons Anthropic’s Amodei over military use of Claude
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to discuss the military use of Claude following disputes over surveillance and autonomous weapons.
PC Guide
One of xAI’s Grok models was delayed to keep Baldur’s Gate knowledge up to scratch, says insider report
xAI delayed a Grok model release to improve its knowledge of the game Baldur's Gate, according to an insider report.
The Verge
How many AIs does it take to read a PDF?
Parsing PDFs remains a significant challenge for AI despite advances, requiring specialized models to accurately extract structured information.
OpenAI
Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
SWE-bench Verified is being deprecated because flawed tests and training data contamination inflate scores, obscuring real capability gains.
OpenAI
OpenAI Codex and Figma launch seamless code-to-design experience
OpenAI and Figma launched an integration connecting Codex directly to Figma for a seamless code-to-design workflow.
techputs
Sarvam Launches Indus AI Chat App in India as AI Competition Intensifies
Sarvam AI launched its Indus AI chat app in India, focusing on supporting multiple Indian languages to compete with global AI offerings.
The Verge
Samsung is adding Perplexity to Galaxy AI
Samsung is integrating Perplexity into Galaxy AI, allowing users to summon it via "hey, Plex" for enhanced functionality.
Kancelaria Prawna Skarbiec
Artificial Intelligence and Legal Analysis
Contractual steganography uses hidden linguistic patterns to manipulate AI contract analysis while remaining invisible to human readers.
TechCrunch
All the important news from the ongoing India AI Impact Summit
India's AI Impact Summit featured major investments, new office announcements, and significant AI model releases from global and local tech leaders.
Phoronix
ollama 0.17 Released With Improved OpenClaw Onboarding
ollama 0.17 streamlines OpenClaw onboarding with simplified installation and model selection.
TechCrunch
Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed claims about ChatGPT's water usage while emphasizing the need for rapid transition to nuclear or renewable energy.
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SoftBank is creating a robotics company that builds data centers — and already eyeing a $100B IPO
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Anthropic Reportedly Plotting to Surpass OpenAI’s Valuation in Next Funding Round
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Amazon’s cloud business is surging — and so is its capital spending
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Sources: Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B
The Verge
Elon Musk’s worst enemy in court is Elon Musk
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On the stand, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets
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Meta is still burning money on AR/VR
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Satya Nadella says he’s ready to ‘exploit’ the new OpenAI deal
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Microsoft says it has over 20M paid Copilot users, and they really are using it
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Google Cloud surpasses $20B but says growth was capacity-constrained
