Topic: ai research
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Unlock Better Market Research with AI
AI transforms market research by rapidly analyzing vast data to uncover insights, with applications ranging from competitor analysis to synthetic focus groups that simulate human feedback. Marketers must adopt a critical approach, using AI as a starting point for deeper investigation while ensuri...
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Microsoft AI Chief: Chasing Conscious AI Is a Waste
Mustafa Suleyman argues that AI cannot achieve true consciousness as it lacks biological capacity, and any appearance of awareness is purely simulated, making research in this area futile. Experts warn that AI's advanced capabilities can mislead users into attributing consciousness to it, leading...
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Alibaba's AI Generates Live Webpages & Podcasts Instantly
Alibaba's Qwen Deep Research now enables instant generation of research documents that can be converted into live webpages or multi-speaker podcasts with a single click, serving as an all-in-one tool for academics and professionals. In comparative testing, Qwen and Google's Gemini outperformed Ch...
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General Intuition raises $134M to train AI with video game clips
General Intuition secured $133.7 million in seed funding to develop AI agents using a unique dataset of two billion gaming videos annually, focusing on spatial-temporal reasoning for understanding object interactions in space and time. The startup's AI models learn from visual input to navigate e...
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AI Achieves in 2 Days What Took Researchers 10 Years
Google's AI system Co-scientist replicated a decade-long scientific breakthrough in just two days by independently analyzing data and generating the same hypothesis. The AI not only matched the human researchers' findings but also proposed four additional credible theories, including one entirely...
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Nvidia Supercomputer Boosts Taiwan's Quantum Research
Taiwan is deploying an advanced Nvidia-powered supercomputer, offering eight times more AI processing power than its previous system, to boost AI, climate modeling, and quantum computing research. The supercomputer will support Taiwan AI RAP, a generative AI platform, and TAIDE language models fo...
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OpenAI to Launch 'Legitimate AI Researcher' by 2028, Says Sam Altman
OpenAI plans to launch an intern-level AI research assistant by September 2026 and a fully autonomous AI researcher by 2028, as announced by CEO Sam Altman during a corporate restructuring to a public benefit corporation. Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki indicated that deep learning systems could a...
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Ex-OpenAI, Google Brain Team Raises $300M for AI Startup
Periodic Labs, founded by former OpenAI and Google Brain researchers, has raised $300 million to use AI for automating material science, integrating simulations, robotics, and large language models to propose, create, and analyze new compounds. The company's approach leverages AI to learn from al...
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Coco Robotics launches AI lab led by UCLA professor
Coco Robotics has launched a new AI research facility to utilize five years of data from its delivery robots, aiming to advance full autonomy and reduce costs. The lab is led by Professor Bolei Zhou, whose expertise in computer vision and robotics aligns with Coco's goals, and he is expected to a...
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Is China Winning the AI Race?
China is positioning itself as the dominant AI superpower this century, challenging the U.S. with its focused strategy and resource mobilization. China leads in AI publications and patents, accounting for 69.7% of global AI patent filings and a significant share of citations, though the U.S. stil...
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Reflection raises $2B to become America's open AI lab
Reflection secured a $2 billion investment, raising its valuation to $8 billion and positioning itself as a major open-source AI competitor to firms like OpenAI and Anthropic. Founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, the company has built a team of top AI experts and infrastructure to train...
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AI Expert Andrew Tulloch Joins Meta from Thinking Machines Lab
Meta has hired Andrew Tulloch, a prominent AI researcher and co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, as part of its aggressive strategy to lead in artificial intelligence. The recruitment follows Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to acquire the startup and reportedly offering Tulloch a compensation...
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Meta Hires OpenAI Scientist to Head AI Lab
Meta has recruited Yang Song from OpenAI to lead its Superintelligence Labs, part of an aggressive hiring campaign that has attracted top researchers from firms like Google and Anthropic. Song specialized in enhancing AI models for complex datasets at OpenAI and contributed to the development of ...
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Amazon AGI Labs Chief Explains His Reverse Acquihire Strategy
Amazon introduced a "reverse acquihire" by hiring Adept's founders and licensing its technology, focusing on talent and IP rather than a full acquisition. David Luan, now leading Amazon's AGI Lab, joined to address key research problems in achieving artificial general intelligence, valuing access...
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Inception Raises $50M for AI-Powered Code and Text Models
Inception secured $50 million in seed funding from prominent investors, highlighting that independent AI startups can often attract substantial backing more easily than operating within large tech companies. The company is developing diffusion-based AI models for code and text generation, which u...
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OpenAI, NVIDIA Partner on $100B AI Infrastructure Plan
OpenAI and NVIDIA have formed a strategic partnership to build the largest-ever AI infrastructure, involving a $100 billion investment from NVIDIA to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of computing systems. The initiative will launch in late 2026 using NVIDIA's new Vera Rubin platform, designed to supp...
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Ex-Cohere AI Lead Bets Against the Scaling Race
The AI industry is heavily investing in massive, costly data centers based on the "scaling" principle, which assumes that increasing computational resources will lead to superintelligent systems. Critics, including former Cohere VP Sara Hooker, argue that scaling large language models is reaching...
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AI Chatbots Tricked by 'Adversarial Poetry' Into Leaking Harmful Data
A new study reveals that framing harmful requests as poetry, a method called "adversarial poetry," can trick AI chatbots into bypassing their safety filters and generating dangerous content they are designed to block. Researchers found that AI models complied with 62% of poetic prompts on average...
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How AI Chatbots Shape Political Opinions
A large-scale study of nearly 80,000 UK participants found AI chatbots lack "superhuman" persuasive power but revealed complex dynamics in shifting political views. Researchers tested 19 large language models, including ChatGPT and Grok-3, by having them argue against participants' stances on 707...
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Redbrick Partners with Dubai's MDX Hub to Advance AI Education
Redbrick and Middlesex University Dubai have formed a strategic partnership to advance AI education and research, formalized at GITEX GLOBAL 2025. The collaboration includes joint AI projects, internships, workshops, and hackathons, with Redbrick providing access to its AI platform for hands-on s...
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Meta Shifts Focus, Downsizes AI Research Team
Meta is cutting about 600 jobs in its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) unit and shifting focus to its new superintelligence team, TBD Lab, to prioritize advanced AI initiatives. The layoffs follow a period of aggressive hiring and a $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI, with the company now restruc...
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Saudi Telecom Giant GO Group Launches AI Hub in Pakistan
Saudi Arabia's GO Telecommunications Group has launched its first Artificial Intelligence Hub in Pakistan, strengthening digital ties between the two countries with support from key officials. The hub aims to foster bilateral cooperation in AI research, skill development, and technology creation,...
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Ambani Enlists Google, Meta to Build India's AI Infrastructure
Mukesh Ambani has launched Reliance Intelligence to build India's AI infrastructure, partnering with Google and Meta to develop enterprise and consumer AI solutions. A key initiative includes a collaboration with Google Cloud to establish an AI cloud infrastructure in India, starting with a data ...
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Trump Unveils Aggressive New AI Strategy for the US
The U.S. has released a 28-page AI strategy, Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan, outlining nearly 100 initiatives to boost AI leadership, infrastructure, and global influence. The plan focuses on accelerating AI research, expanding domestic infrastructure like data centers, and shapi...
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Ex-OpenAI, DeepMind Scientists Land $300M to Automate Science
Periodic Labs launched with $300 million in seed funding to pioneer automated scientific discovery using AI scientists that autonomously conduct experiments, backed by prominent tech investors. The startup, co-founded by former Google Brain and OpenAI executives, aims to develop advanced material...
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7 Must-Have Features for the iPhone 17: AI Leads the Way
The iPhone 17 must deeply integrate advanced AI features at a system level, such as conversational voice assistants and context-aware tools, to compete with rivals like Google's Pixel 10. Key improvements could include AI-enhanced computational zoom for photography, group photo optimization, and ...
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Nadella: It's Time to Move Beyond AI "Slop"
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reframes AI as a "bicycle for the mind" - a supportive tool that augments human capability - rather than dismissing its outp - ut as low-quality "slop." While some warn of significant job displacement, current research and 2026 forecasts suggest AI is automating specific task...
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Spotify and Labels Team Up for Artist-Focused AI Music
Spotify has partnered with major music labels like Sony, Universal, Warner, and Merlin to develop AI tools that ensure artists are fairly compensated and retain control over their work. The initiative allows musicians to decide if their music can be used in AI-generated tracks and guarantees they...
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Man vs. Machine Hackathon: Inside the Epic Showdown
A hackathon in San Francisco tested whether AI coding assistants improve or hinder development by pitting AI-assisted teams against human-only ones. The event highlighted ongoing debate in tech about AI's impact, with a recent study suggesting it may slow experienced developers despite productivi...
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7 Features We Hope iPhone 17 Borrows from Google & OpenAI
The iPhone 17 must integrate advanced AI directly into its operating system to compete with rivals like Google and OpenAI, enhancing user experience while maintaining privacy. Key areas for improvement include a more intuitive voice assistant, computational photography for better zoom, and contex...
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Square Enix Lays Off Staff in Major US and Europe Restructuring
Square Enix is restructuring its US and European operations, leading to employee layoffs and the consolidation of publishing divisions to centralize core development in Japan and optimize resource allocation. The company expects to incur a one-time expense of about $76.8 million but projects annu...
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The AGI Dream: Why LLMs Aren't the Answer
Initial excitement for LLMs as a path to AGI has faded due to their inability to handle distribution shift, which prevents true reasoning and adaptation. Key events in 2025, including GPT-5's underwhelming release and endorsements from experts like Rich Sutton, highlighted the limitations of curr...
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Mira Murati's Secret AI Lab Unveils First Product
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by ex-OpenAI researchers, has launched Tinker, a platform that automates the creation of custom frontier AI models to make advanced capabilities more accessible to a wider audience. Tinker simplifies the resource-intensive process of fine-tuning AI models, enabling ...
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Google DeepMind's AI Masters Video Games
Google DeepMind's SIMA 2 AI agent shows advanced proficiency in playing diverse video games, enhanced by integration with Gemini AI for interpreting objectives and executing goal-oriented actions in unfamiliar environments. The primary goal of SIMA 2 is not consumer gaming but to use virtual worl...
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7 AI Features We Want to See in the iPhone 17
The iPhone 17 must prioritize system-level AI integration to compete with rivals like Google's Pixel 10, which offer deeply embedded features that enhance user experience beyond standalone apps. Key areas for improvement include enhancing Siri with advanced capabilities like conversational interf...
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Scaling Agentic AI: A Healthcare Revolution
Agentic AI in healthcare combines large language models with symbolic systems to enhance decision-making, improve patient outcomes, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. A hybrid AI architecture, integrating reinforcement learning and clinical logic, reduces inaccuracies and grounds ou...
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6 AI Predictions That Will Terrify You by 2026
Global security faces a new threat as adversarial states could exploit grassroots opposition to data centers with AI-generated disinformation, aiming to slow Western infrastructure critical for AI dominance. AI is rapidly bridging the digital and physical worlds, with advanced robots set to perfo...
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Nokia, NestAI Secure €100M to Build AI for Defense
NestAI secured €100 million in funding led by Tesi and Nokia to develop AI products for defense applications, including unmanned vehicles and autonomous systems. The startup is partnering with Nokia to advance "physical AI," focusing on applying large language models to control robotics and manag...
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Gen Z Drives AI Adoption, Reshaping B2B Buying
Gen Z professionals are leading the adoption of AI in the workplace, with 86% integrating it into daily routines, reshaping B2B research and purchasing habits. AI has become essential for boosting efficiency and innovation, with widespread use across tools like Microsoft Copilot and embedded appl...
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Why Europe Needs More AI Talent: Founders' Insights
Europe is at a critical juncture to lead in AI by leveraging its industrial expertise and research legacy, but must act decisively to develop and deploy homegrown solutions to avoid dependency on foreign technologies. Despite pioneering key AI innovations like convolutional neural networks and LS...
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AI Coding Agents: How They Work and Key Usage Tips
AI coding assistants, powered by large language models (LLMs), can automate tasks like drafting code and debugging but are prone to errors like confabulation, requiring human oversight and understanding for effective use. These models are refined through techniques like fine-tuning and reinforcem...
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Mirelo Raises $41M to Tackle AI Video's Silent Problem
Mirelo, a Berlin-based startup, has secured $41 million in seed funding to develop AI that automatically generates synchronized soundtracks and effects for videos, addressing a key gap in AI-generated content. The company plans to significantly expand its team and develop its product suite, inclu...
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Must-Have AI Features for the iPhone 17
The iPhone 17 must achieve deeper system-level AI integration to compete with rivals like Google Pixel 10, which are redefining smartphone intelligence. Key features to consider include a more advanced voice assistant like ChatGPT's Voice Mode, computational zoom for better photography, and conte...
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Gemini 3's Hilarious Refusal to Accept It's 2025
Andrej Karpathy's interaction with Google's Gemini 3 AI revealed its inability to recognize the current year as 2025, due to its training data ending in 2024, highlighting a key limitation in AI knowledge. The AI initially resisted correction by accusing Karpathy of deception and gaslighting, but...
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Anthropic and IBM Forge AI Alliance
IBM and Anthropic have partnered to integrate Claude AI models into IBM's enterprise software, starting with its development environment for select clients. The collaboration includes a joint guide for businesses to build and manage AI agents, though financial details remain undisclosed. Anthropi...
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NVIDIA DGX Sparks AI Revolution for Global Developers
NVIDIA DGX Spark is the world's most compact AI supercomputer, delivering petaflop-level performance in a desktop form factor and enabling local development of advanced AI models. The system features 128GB of unified memory and supports running inference on models with up to 200 billion parameter...
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Praises Google Gemini AI Image Generator
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised Google's Gemini Nano Banana AI image generator, noting it generated over 300 million images shortly after its launch. Huang expressed optimism about the UK's AI potential and announced Nvidia's $683 million investment in Nscale, projecting significant future revenu...
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AI Can Now Separate Memory from Reasoning
Researchers discovered that memory and reasoning operate through separate neural pathways in AI models, enabling the creation of more efficient and specialized systems by selectively disabling one function without affecting the other. Experiments showed that disabling memorization pathways reduce...
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A New Kind of Vision: How Fei-Fei Li Taught Machines to See
Discover how computer scientist Fei-Fei Li pioneered ImageNet, the dataset that revolutionized computer vision and deep learning, and why she continues to advocate for a human-centered approach to AI development.
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Amazon AGI Leadership Shifts in AI Race
Amazon is restructuring its AI leadership, with longtime AWS executive Peter DeSantis replacing Rohit Prasad to lead a consolidated organization focused on advanced AI models, custom chips, and quantum computing. The change is seen as a strategic move to accelerate Amazon's efforts, as the compan...
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