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DeepseekMath-V2 is Deepseek's latest attempt to pop the US AI bubble

Chinese startup Deepseek reports its new DeepseekMath-V2 model has reached gold medal status at the Math Olympiad, keeping the company in tight competition with Western AI labs. According to Deepseek, ...
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Leaked "Soul Doc" reveals how Anthropic programs Claude’s character

In a lengthy LessWrong post, a user says he managed to extract an internal training document from Claude 4.5 Opus that defines the model's personality and ethical guidelines. Anthropic has confirmed ...
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Pinokio 5.0 turns local machines into personal AI clouds

Pinokio 5.0 wants to make running open-source AI models on your own hardware as easy as using a web app. Developer "cocktail peanut" positions the free tool as a local alternative to cloud platforms ...
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Google rolls out Gemini 3 "Deep Think" for Gemini Ultra subscribers

The technology "builds on" on the Deep Think variant of Gemini 2.5, which recently posted impressive scores at the International Mathematical Olympiad and a major programming competition. To try it ...
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Deepseek V3.2 rivals GPT-5 and Gemini 3 Pro, reaches IMO gold level as open source

Chinese AI lab Deepseek has unveiled V3.2, a new language model that matches GPT-5 and Google's Gemini 3 Pro in key benchmarks and reasoning tasks. The team identified three main flaws in current open ...
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Paris-based Mistral releases Large 3, a major new open-source AI model

Mistral AI is rolling out a new family of open, multilingual, and multimodal models called Mistral 3. The lineup ranges from compact options for edge deployments to a large Mixture-of-Experts model.
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Anthropic study shows leading AI models racking up millions in simulated smart contract exploits

A new study from MATS and Anthropic shows that advanced AI models like Claude Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, and GPT-5 can spot and exploit smart contract vulnerabilities in controlled tests. Using the ...
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman feels like he's "on the side of the angels" working on AI models

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made religious references about artificial intelligence at a recent developer event in London, according to Hugging Face engineer Aymeric Roucher. "I don't pray for God to be on ...
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OpenAI publishes prompting guide for GPT-5.1

OpenAI has released a prompting guide for GPT-5.1, its latest model designed to follow instructions with more precision. The guide walks developers through how to update existing workflows and adjust ...
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Microsoft unveils Fara-7B, a compact model for running AI-driven computer control locally

Microsoft's new Fara-7B model is a compact AI system built to operate user interfaces purely through visual input. Despite its small size, it aims to keep pace with far more complex systems while ...
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Runway’s Gen-4.5 edges past Google and OpenAI in text-to-video benchmark

Runway introduces Gen-4.5, its latest video generation model. The company says the new release outperforms competing systems on select benchmarks, but it still struggles with core logic errors that ...
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Black Forest Labs secures $300 million to accelerate its vision for advanced image models

Black Forest Labs has raised USD 300 million in a new Series B round, bringing its valuation to USD 3.25 billion. Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP) led the round, with existing investors like ...