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Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API

Despite the speed focus, Google says Nano Banana 2 Lite still delivers reliable prompt following, consistent character rendering, and readable text in generated images. Beyond developer platforms, the ...
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Anthropic's Fable 5 is back worldwide after a two-week government ban over a jailbreak

After a two-week suspension, the U.S. government has lifted export controls on Anthropic's second most powerful AI model, Fable 5, making it available worldwide again. The less restricted version, ...
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Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data

Meta is limiting how its engineers use Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to prevent outputs from these AI tools from ending up in its own training data. According to internal documents ...
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The US military used AI to pick thousands of targets but missed a note saying one was a school

The probe into a missile strike on an Iranian school exposes serious gaps in the US military's targeting infrastructure. AI is supposed to close them. A missed note from an intelligence analyst and ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost Z.ai is already competing with Western models on price with GLM-5.2, and now it's ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Claude Code and Fable 5 ported the 2003 PC game Command & Conquer to native iOS in "a few hours" A Google Deepmind developer ported "Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour" to ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Read full article about: Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200 per week Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200 per week, according to an internal memo reported by The Information. The rule took ...
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Jonathan Kemper

Read full article about: Chinese AI video maker Kling raises $2 billion as it gears up for Hong Kong IPO Kuaishou has raised about $2 billion from investors for its AI video division, Kling. The ...
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Google Deepmind loses another top AI researcher as Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves for Anthropic

The timing makes it worse. Shortly before, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI, one of the minds behind the reasoning approach powering Google's latest models. Within weeks, Anthropic and ...
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Meta's new AI model predicts how your brain reacts to images, sounds, and speech

A new AI model from Meta predicts how the human brain reacts to images, sounds, and speech. In tests, it often matched the typical brain response better than any single person's scan. Brain research ...
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Elon Musk admits xAI "was not built right first time around," launches full restructuring

Elon Musk's AI company xAI is going through a major restructuring. Musk acknowledged on X that the company "was not built right first time around" and is now being rebuilt from the foundations up.
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Same prompt, different morals: how frontier AI models diverge on ethical dilemmas

Philosophy Bench puts leading language models through 100 ethical dilemmas. Claude refuses tasks rather than lie, while Grok executes almost anything users ask for. How do AI models behave when they ...