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Germany's cybersecurity agency issues new guidelines to protect LLMs from persistent threats

The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warns that even top AI providers are struggling to defend against so-called evasion attacks targeting language models. Ad In these attacks, ...
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Tech giants take on record debt to finance the AI race

In the past three months alone, these companies have invested a combined $112 billion. To cover these massive expenses, they're increasingly relying on loans and complex financing strategies. These ...
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Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 Thinking sets new agentic reasoning records in open-source LLMs

Chinese AI company Moonshot AI has unveiled Kimi K2 Thinking, a new open-source language model the company calls the "best open-source thinking model." Designed as a "thinking agent," K2 Thinking is ...
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Most LLM benchmarks are flawed, casting doubt on AI progress metrics, study finds

A new international study highlights major problems with large language model (LLM) benchmarks, showing that most current evaluation methods have serious flaws. After reviewing 445 benchmark papers ...
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German court deepens the split on AI and copyright with its latest ruling

Just days after a major copyright ruling in the UK, a Munich court took a sharply different path, highlighting how unsettled the rules around AI and copyrighted content still are. Late last year, GEMA ...
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Google's Gemini Deep Research feature now taps into Gmail, Drive, and Chat

Google has started rolling out Gemini Deep Research, a new AI-powered tool that can pull information not just from the web, but also from users' Gmail, Drive, and Chat accounts. Users can choose ...
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Snap partners with Perplexity AI in a $400 million deal to bring AI search to Snapchat by 2026

Snap has signed a $400 million partnership with Perplexity AI to make its AI search engine the default option inside Snapchat starting in 2026. In addition to the existing "My AI" chatbot, Perplexity ...
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A self-rewriting AI from KAUST revives Jürgen Schmidhuber’s vision of a Gödel Machine

A research group at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has unveiled the Huxley-Gödel Machine (HGM), an AI agent that can evolve by rewriting and improving its own code.
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Sandbar claims its finger-worn AI device is the new 'mouse for voice'

Another startup is taking a shot at AI hardware. This time with a voice-controlled wearable ring designed for everyday use. US-based startup Sandbar has unveiled the Stream Ring, a device that turns ...
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Six AI all-stars weigh in on hype, hope, and the reality behind the field

Six of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence took the stage at the Queen Elizabeth Prize 2025 ceremony to weigh in on recent breakthroughs, ongoing challenges, and whether current AI ...
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So-called reasoning models are more efficient but not more capable than regular LLMs, study finds

The paper discussed below has now earned the highest possible score at NeurIPS, one of the world’s leading machine learning conferences. Since its release, the work has sparked debate. Some ...
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Sora 2 Android app launches in more countries, introduces paid generations

OpenAI has launched the Sora app for Android in the US, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. The app is still free, but OpenAI says the service is "completely unsustainable" and ...