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Trump signs executive order threatening funding cuts over state AI rules

On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order threatening to withhold federal funding from states whose AI regulations impede American innovation. Speaking to reporters, Trump argued ...
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GPT-5.2 lands to top Google's Gemini 3 in the AI benchmark game just four weeks after GPT-5.1

Just four weeks after releasing GPT-5.1, OpenAI is back with GPT-5.2 and some substantial benchmark improvements. Whether ironic or sincere, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman commented on the GPT-5.2 release with ...
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OpenAI quietly adopts Anthropic’s modular skills framework to boost agent capabilities

OpenAI appears to be adopting the skills system Anthropic introduced in October, according to a discovery by user Elias Judin shared on X. Support for these skills has surfaced in both the Codex CLI ...
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OpenAI claims generative AI saves knowledge workers 40 to 80 minutes a day

According to OpenAI's "State of Enterprise AI 2025" report, ChatGPT Enterprise users save an average of 40 to 60 minutes per active workday. Workers in data science, engineering, and communications ...
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Mistral's open coding model Devstral 2 claims sevenfold cost advantage over Claude Sonnet

The flagship Devstral 2 features 123 billion parameters and scores 72.2 percent on the SWE-Bench Verified benchmark, outperforming many competing open models. According to Mistral AI, the model is up ...
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Anthropic places $21 billion order for Google chips via Broadcom

AI lab Anthropic has placed orders totaling $21 billion with Broadcom for Google's AI chips. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan confirmed that the startup is purchasing "Ironwood Racks" equipped with Google's ...
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Chinese AI firms build shadow workforce in Kenya using WhatsApp and mobile payments

While US tech giants face growing scrutiny over their labor practices in Kenya, Chinese AI firms are quietly building a network of low-cost workers. Recruitment happens informally via WhatsApp, with ...
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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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AI agents in GitHub and GitLab workflows create new enterprise security risks

Aikido Security warns that plugging AI agents into GitHub and GitLab workflows opens up a serious vulnerability in enterprise environments. The issue hits widely used tools like Gemini CLI, Claude ...
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NYT sues AI search engine Perplexity for alleged content misuse

The complaint alleges that the San Francisco-based startup of building its business on massive copyright infringement. According to the filing, Perplexity's "answer engine" illegally scrapes millions ...
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Meta AI turns into a real-time news hub with CNN, Fox News, and more

Meta is turning its AI assistant into a real-time news hub, pulling in content from major media outlets including CNN, Fox News, Le Monde Group, People, USA Today, The Daily Caller, and The Washington ...
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Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis predicts three major AI trends for 2026

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google Deepmind, expects the next year to bring major progress in multimodal models, interactive video worlds, and more reliable AI agents. Speaking at the Axios AI+ Summit, ...