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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Musk updates OpenAI lawsuit to redirect potential $150B in damages to the nonprofit foundation Elon Musk has updated his lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. He's now asking ...
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AI benchmarks systematically ignore how humans disagree, Google study finds

A Google study finds that the standard three to five human raters per test example often aren't enough for reliable AI ...
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AI offensive cyber capabilities are doubling every six months, safety researchers find

AI safety research firm Lyptus Research has published a new study on the offensive cybersecurity capabilities of AI models. The study is based on the METR time-horizon method and involved testing with ...
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Anthropic leak reveals new model "Claude Mythos" with "dramatically higher scores on tests" than any previous model

The leaked blog posts have allegedly surfaced online; the information matches what Fortune shared in a follow-up article. There are two versions of the same blog post that only differ in the model's ...
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Microsoft's MAI-Transcribe-1 runs 2.5x faster than its predecessor at $0.36 per audio hour

Microsoft has introduced MAI-Transcribe-1, a speech-to-text model supporting 25 languages that achieves the lowest word error rate of any model tested on the FLEURS ...
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EU bars AI-generated content from official communications, according to Politico

Politico reports that the EU Commission, Parliament, and Council have banned their communications teams from using fully AI-generated videos and images. AI may only be used to optimize existing visual ...
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Microsoft rolls out Copilot Cowork more broadly and lets AI models check each other's work

Microsoft is making "Copilot Cowork" more widely available and launching a new AI research agent. The previously announced feature builds on Claude Cowork and lets the system handle multi-step tasks ...
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OpenAI and Anthropic before the IPO: Different balance sheets make comparison difficult

Anthropic and OpenAI are both growing fast, but they report revenue very differently, The Information reports. OpenAI's annualized revenue is around $25 billion; Anthropic's is $19 billion. Both ...
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The New York Times drops freelancer whose AI tool copied from an existing book review

The New York Times cut ties with freelance writer Alex Preston after it turned out an AI tool he'd used had copied from an existing book review. Preston was writing a review of Jean-Baptiste Andrea's ...
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Microsoft expands its SLM lineup with new multimodal and mini Phi-4 models

Microsoft has added two new models to its Phi small language model family: Phi-4-multimodal, which can handle audio, images and text simultaneously, and Phi-4-mini, a streamlined model focused on text ...
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Meta Neuroscientist King: "Some of the concepts like reasoning may need to be re-evaluated"

The neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King leads the Brain & AI team in Meta’s AI division. In an interview with The Decoder, he discusses the connection between AI and neuroscience, the challenges of ...