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Bytedance shows impressive progress in AI video with Seedance 2.0

Bytedance has released Seedance 2.0, a multimodal AI video generation model that processes images, videos, audio, and text simultaneously to create short videos with automatic sound effects. The ...
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Claude Opus 4.6 wrote mustard gas instructions in an Excel spreadsheet during Anthropic's own safety testing

Anthropic's security training fails when Claude operates a graphical user interface. In pilot tests, Claude was able to get Opus 4.6 to provide detailed instructions on how to make mustard gas in an ...
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Gemini models dominate new AI rankings for strategic board games

Google's Gemini models are outperforming the competition in board game benchmarks. Google Deepmind and Kaggle have expanded their "Game Arena" platform with two new games: Werewolf and Poker. The ...
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Adobe Firefly offers subscribers unlimited image and video generations for a limited time

Adobe Firefly subscribers can now generate unlimited images and videos until March 16. The change gives users unrestricted access to multiple AI models, including Google Nano Banana Pro, GPT Image ...
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China captured the global lead in open-weight AI development during 2025, Stanford analysis shows

At least a dozen Chinese institutions now produce state-of-the-art AI models, and in terms of global distribution, they've apparently already overtaken their US competitors, according to a new ...
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Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on

After her comments attracted significant attention, Dogan clarifies her original assessment. To "cut through the noise," as she puts it: Google has built several versions of the system over the past ...
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Grok's image editing tool generated sexualized images of children, forcing xAI to acknowledge safety gaps

The discovery forced xAI to respond. The company acknowledged "lapses in safeguards" and said it was "urgently fixing them." Child sexual abuse material is "illegal and prohibited," xAI wrote.
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Moonshot AI closes $500 million Series C to fund Kimi-K3 development and expand computing capacity

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, the company behind the Kimi chatbot, has closed a $500 million Series C funding round. The deal values the company at $4.3 billion, according to an exclusive report ...
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Microsoft CEO Nadella tells managers Copilot's Gmail and Outlook integrations ‘don't really work’ and steps in to fix them

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is reportedly slamming the company's AI assistant behind closed doors and stepping in to fix it himself. A few weeks ago, Nadella emailed engineering managers working on ...
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OpenAI admits prompt injection may never be fully solved, casting doubt on the agentic AI vision

OpenAI has released a security update for the browser agent in ChatGPT Atlas after internal tests revealed new types of prompt injection attacks. According to OpenAI, prompt injection attacks remain a ...
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Alibaba's Qwen releases AI model that splits images into editable layers like Photoshop

Alibaba's AI unit Qwen has released a new image editing model that breaks down photos into separate, editable components. Qwen-Image-Layered splits images into multiple individual layers with ...
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 can tackle some tasks lasting nearly five hours

AI research organization METR has released new benchmark results for Claude Opus 4.5. Anthropic's latest model achieved a 50 percent time horizon of roughly 4 hours and 49 minutes—the highest score ...