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Ex-Anthropic researchers launch AI startup Mirendil to tackle scientific research

Another neo-lab enters the scene, this time from Anthropic's ranks: Mirendil wants to use AI to advance research in fields like biology and materials science. Founders Behnam Neyshabur (CEO) and Harsh ...
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AI chips are pushing everything else off TSMC's most advanced production lines

In 2026, Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and AMD are all moving their AI accelerators to TSMC's N3 process at the same time. According to SemiAnalysis, TSMC has underestimated demand for years and won't be ...
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Bytedance secures access to Nvidia Blackwell cluster in Malaysia, circumventing US export ban on China

According to the Wall Street Journal, ByteDance is planning around 500 Nvidia Blackwell systems with around 36,000 B200 chips in Malaysia. The costs are in excess of 2.5 billion US dollars. The chips ...
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Microsoft and rival AI researchers unite to back Anthropic in its escalating legal battle against the Pentagon

In the legal dispute between Anthropic and the US Department of War, Microsoft, 37 employees of OpenAI and Google DeepMind, 22 former high-ranking military officials, and civil rights organizations ...
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Meta's JEPA architecture outperforms standard AI methods in cardiac ultrasound analysis

Researchers have built an AI model for cardiac ultrasound based on Meta's JEPA architecture that outperforms common approaches like Masked Autoencoders and contrastive learning in their benchmarks.
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Meta acquires Moltbook, the Reddit-style platform built for AI agents

Meta has acquired Moltbook, a platform best described as a Reddit for AI agents. Founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr are joining Meta's Superintelligence Labs (MSL), led by former Scale AI CEO ...
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Amazon gets court order blocking Perplexity's AI shopping agent

A federal court in San Francisco has granted Amazon an injunction against AI startup Perplexity, barring it from using its AI browser agent Comet to make purchases on Amazon. Amazon sued Perplexity in ...
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OpenAI employees hint at a new omni model

OpenAI appears to be developing a new multimodal model, potentially a successor to GPT-4o. Recent posts from OpenAI employees are fueling the speculation. Atty Eleti from the Voice team wrote that ...
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Claude Code gets parallel AI agents that review code for bugs and security gaps

Anthropic has released a code review feature for Claude Code that automatically checks changes for errors before they're merged. Multiple AI agents work in parallel to catch bugs, security ...
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OpenAI is building a GitHub competitor that could challenge its biggest investor

OpenAI is building its own alternative to GitHub, Microsoft's widely used platform for code management and collaboration, according to The Information. The move was triggered by a string of GitHub ...
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AI agent benchmarks obsess over coding while ignoring 92% of the US labor market, study finds

A study by Carnegie Mellon and Stanford University reveals that current AI agent benchmarks are heavily skewed toward programming tasks, while economically significant fields like management or law ...
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Hallucinated references are passing peer review at top AI conferences and a new open tool wants to fix that

Papers at leading AI conferences have been found to contain fabricated citations, a problem that is increasingly difficult to catch as reference lists have grown too long for manual review. The new ...