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DeepSeek Rushes to Launch new AI Model as China Goes All in

The new model from DeepSeek will be called R2, and could worry the U.S. government. Here’s why.

Inc. - 2d

OpenAI reveals GPT-4.5 amid flurry of new AI model releases

The San Francisco-based company said its latest product has fewer so-called ‘hallucinations’

Financial Times - 7h

Xbox Pushes Ahead With Muse, a New Generative AI Model. Devs Say ‘Nobody Will Want This’

One developer responds to the release of Muse: “We are implicitly empowering a class of people who own these tools and don’t give a fuck about how they reshape our lives.”

Wired - Feb. 19

Hume launches new text-to-speech model Octave that generates custom AI voices with adjustable emotions

Hume emphasized its Octave TTS pricing is around half the cost of the competing offering from AI voice creation startup ElevenLabs.

VentureBeat - 1d

Microsoft’s new Phi-4 AI models pack big performance in small packages

Microsoft's new Phi-4 AI models deliver breakthrough performance in a compact size, processing text, images and speech simultaneously while requiring less computing power than competitors.

VentureBeat - 1d

Breaking down Grok 3: The AI model that could redefine the industry

Grok-3 still hasn't fully shipped yet. But it will surely set the tone for how other AI labs release future models.

VentureBeat - Feb. 20

Anthropic Launches the World’s First ‘Hybrid Reasoning’ AI Model

Claude 3.7, the latest model from Anthropic, can be instructed to engage in a specific amount of reasoning to solve hard problems.

Wired - 3d

Alibaba makes AI video generation model free to use globally

Open-source AI tech has been thrown into the spotlight since Chinese firm DeepSeek rattled global markets in January.

CNBC - 1d

As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies

U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services

ABC News - Feb. 18

Together AI’s $305M bet: Reasoning models like DeepSeek-R1 are increasing, not decreasing, GPU demand

The demands of DeepSeek's advanced reasoning capabilities are pushing enterprises toward Together AI's optimized infrastructure platform.

VentureBeat - Feb. 21

AI still has a hallucination problem: How MongoDB aims to solve it with advanced rerankers and embedding models

How MongoDB's Voyage AI is helping enterprises move more mission critical operations into production with gen AI.

VentureBeat - 3d

Anthropic says it's released its 'most intelligent' AI model yet as competition ramps up

Anthropic unveiled its latest frontier model, Claude Sonnet 3.7, on Monday and claims it's the company's "most intelligent" version yet.

CNBC - 3d

Qualcomm and Nokia Bell Labs show how multiple-vendor AI models can work together in wireless networks

Qualcomm and Nokia Bell Labs showed how multiple-vendor AI models can work together in an interoperable way in wireless networks.

VentureBeat - 1d

Rebuilding Alexa: How Amazon is mixing models, agents and browser-use for smarter AI

In rearchitecting the upgraded Alexa voice assistant, Amazon turned to model mixing to bring agentic capabilities to devices.

VentureBeat - 1d

Ukraine is launching a new drone supply model to slash delivery times to troops

Yahoo News - 6d

Carmakers turn to new hybrid and petrol models to bolster profits

Investments continue in combustion and hybrid engine vehicles amid lengthy wait for EVs to become mainstream

Financial Times - 4d

Beijing embraces DeepSeek to lead AI adoption as it looks for new growth drivers

DeepSeek's rise came as a timely confidence boost as the Chinese leadership faces a prolonged economic gloom and a brewing trade war with U.S.

CNBC - 6d

Weather forecasting takes big step forward with Europe’s new AI system

Predictions for up to 15 days ahead expected to improve tracking of extreme events

Financial Times - 3d

Amazon Debuts New Alexa Voice Assistant With AI Overhaul

It’s called Alexa+, and the idea behind it is that generative AI can take the voice assistant to the next level.

Inc. - 1d

xAI’s new Grok 3 model criticized for blocking sources that call Musk, Trump top spreaders of misinformation

The backlash over Grok 3 raises questions about whether xAI has sacrificed public safety and transparency for personal image control.

VentureBeat - 3d

From Google DeepMind to Skims and Reddit, Paris Hilton to Naomi Watts, Changemakers have a new model for success

CNBC's annual Changemakers list identifies unique women leadership success stories, from Paris Hilton to Jennifer Garner and Google DeepMind.

CNBC - 3d

ElevenLabs’ new speech-to-text model Scribe is here with highest accuracy rate so far (96.7% for English)

ElevenLab's Scribe pricing makes it competitive for businesses that require high-volume transcription services with API-based integration.

VentureBeat - 1d

Qodo’s open code embedding model sets new enterprise standard, beating OpenAI, Salesforce

The 1.5B-parameter Qodo-Embed-1-1.5B is available on Hugging Face under the OpenRAIL++-M license, allowing developers to integrate it freely

VentureBeat - 16h

How Google’s New AI Co-Scientist Tool Gives Us a Taste of Tomorrow’s Workplace

Scientists often use sophisticated technology, so an AI tool designed to help them begin new investigations may see broad take-up among the community. It’s also a hint of how many other workplaces ...

Inc. - 6d

Gabby Petito's AI-faked voice in new Netflix documentary sparks viewer backlash

Netflix's “American Murder: Gabby Petito” is facing backlash from some viewers who are questioning whether the filmmakers' decision to use AI to recreate Petito’s voice is ethical.

NBC News - 6d

A New AI Worry: Many Young Coders No Longer Know How Their Code Really Works

Research recently showed that using AI may impact workers’ long term critical thinking powers. Another alarm bell raises worries that overreliance on AI to help write code will also have a ...

Inc. - 3d