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Top 10 — News
- India seeks to broker consensus on global ‘AI commons’ New Delhi to focus on wielding emerging technology for social ends at global summit
- US concludes Alibaba and BYD have links to Chinese military The companies are among a number the Pentagon believes could pose a threat to American national security
- Rising vet costs leave charity with £400k bill The group, based in Solihull and Wolverhampton, says its vet bills are costing them more.
- NASA has a new problem to fix before the next Artemis II countdown test "We observed materially lower leak rates compared to prior observations during WDR-1."
- A Valentine’s Day homage to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Ang Lee's gorgeous 2000 masterpiece has awe-inspiring martial arts stunts and a tragic love story for the ages.
- Homeland Security reportedly sent hundreds of subpoenas seeking to unmask anti-ICE accounts The Department of Homeland Security has been increasing pressure on tech companies to identify the owners of accounts that criticize ICE.
- Is safety ‘dead’ at xAI? Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more unhinged, according to a former employee.
- Jikipedia turns Epstein’s emails into an encyclopedia of his powerful friends The folks behind Jmail are at it again with a clone of Wikipedia that turns the treasure trove of data in Epstein's emails into detailed do…
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei suggests OpenAI doesn’t “really understand the risks they’re taking” Anthropic's revenue has grown 10x year over year, and CEO Dario Amodei believes Nobel Prize-level AI is maybe just a year or two away.
- Google and OpenAI complain about distillation attacks that clone their AI models on the cheap
Google and OpenAI—companies that trained their models on massive amounts of other people's data—are now complaining about theft.
AI tools & model updates
- OpenAI Is Nuking Its 4o Model. China’s ChatGPT Fans Aren’t OK As OpenAI removed access to GPT-4o in its app on Friday, people who have come to rely on the chatbot for companionship are mourning the los…
- openai/openai-node: v6.22.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-python: v2.21.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help organizations defend against prompt injection and AI-driven data exfi…
- Amazon Bedrock increases default quotas for Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 model in AWS GovCloud (US) Amazon Bedrock has increased the default quotas for Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) to 5…
- Bytedance’s Seed2.0 adds even more price pressure on Western AI models Bytedance has released its new Seed2.0 AI model series.
- Google Deepmind’s new bioacoustic model shows the power of generalization by detecting whales with bird training A general-purpose bioacoustic model from Google DeepMind, trained mostly on bird calls, consistently beats models built specifically to cla…
- BerriAI/litellm: litellm_dev-test-v0.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- open-webui/open-webui: v0.8.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.0-patch4
Release update (see link for changelog).
Full list — News (50)
New Delhi to focus on wielding emerging technology for social ends at global summit
The companies are among a number the Pentagon believes could pose a threat to American national security
Secretary of state says Washington wants to work ‘together with you, our friends’ on the continent
Ukrainian president says US security guarantee has to precede any peace agreement
Commission president tells Munich Security Conference ‘you change or die’
CEOs each earned more than $40mn as gap with median bank worker set to widen further
The signals that the Beveridge curve is sending about the US labour market
UK prime minister pushes for multilateral defence initiative to oversee joint procurement and cut rearmament costs
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"We observed materially lower leak rates compared to prior observations during WDR-1."
Ang Lee's gorgeous 2000 masterpiece has awe-inspiring martial arts stunts and a tragic love story for the ages.
Next-generation telescopes are mapping this outer frontier.
The Department of Homeland Security has been increasing pressure on tech companies to identify the owners of accounts that criticize ICE.
Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more unhinged, according to a former employee.
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Hollywood organizations are pushing back against a new AI video model called Seedance 2.0, which they say has quickly become a tool for “bl…
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Buying a pre-assembled gaming desktop makes sense for some.
Georgia Tech has announced the finalists in its annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition.
My ongoing quest to turn my iPhone into one of my favorite consoles of all time has led me to a curiously named controller.
In an eyewitness video analyzed frame by frame by The New York Times, Alex Pretti raises one hand and holds a phone in the other.
Hopping over a pile of dirty snow, I arrived on a frigid February evening at a wine bar in midtown, a purple neon sign reading "EVA AI cafe…
Colonialism is not merely about occupying nations.
Monday, February 16th, is Presidents Day, and there are plenty of good deals happening on tech in the run-up to the holiday.
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The most striking thing about Ring's statement that it had parted ways with Flock Safety is what the home security company didn't say.
Anthropic's revenue has grown 10x year over year, and CEO Dario Amodei believes Nobel Prize-level AI is maybe just a year or two away.
Google and OpenAI—companies that trained their models on massive amounts of other people's data—are now complaining about theft.
MicroVision , a solid-state sensor technology company located in Redmond, Wash., says it has designed a solid-state automotive lidar sensor…
AI agents hire people for real tasks.
A German district court has denied copyright protection for three AI-generated logos, ruling that even elaborate prompting isn't enough whe…
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Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
As OpenAI removed access to GPT-4o in its app on Friday, people who have come to rely on the chatbot for companionship are mourning the los…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
As a USA 501(c)(3) the OpenAI non-profit has to file a tax return each year with the IRS.
Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help organizations defend against prompt injection and AI-driven data exfi…
Someone asked if there was an Anthropic equivalent to OpenAI's IRS mission statements over time .
Claude Code was made available to the general public in May 2025.
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Amazon Bedrock has increased the default quotas for Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) to 5…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Bytedance has released its new Seed2.0 AI model series.
A general-purpose bioacoustic model from Google DeepMind, trained mostly on bird calls, consistently beats models built specifically to cla…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
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Chinese AI company MiniMax out of Shanghai has released its new open-weights model M2.5 under the MIT license.
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Amazon Connect now provides AI-powered Task overviews with suggested next actions so agents can understand work items faster and resolve th…
A new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI and academic colla…
GABRIEL is a new open-source toolkit from OpenAI that uses GPT to turn qualitative text and images into quantitative data, helping social s…
Release update (see link for changelog).
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AWS is announcing local support for the latest generation of x86-powered Amazon EC2 instances on second-generation AWS Outposts racks, incl…
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides secure, enterprise-grade access to high-performing foundation models from leading A…
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides secure, enterprise-grade access to high-performing foundation models from leading A…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark OpenAI announced a partnership with Cerebras on January 14th .
Release update (see link for changelog).
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