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Inside self-driving Waymo ride as company looks to expand to highways
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At work, a quiet AI revolution is under way
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New European AI Alliance Will Drive Autonomous Weapons Development
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Taking AI to the playground: LinkedIn combines LLMs, LangChain and Jupyter Notebooks to improve prompt engineering
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Chinese EV leader BYD to offer ‘God’s Eye’ self-driving system on all models
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Two High-End Mercedes-AMG Models Totaled in Head-On Collision During Test Drive in India
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A.I. Is Prompting an Evolution, Not an Extinction, for Coders
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Democrats accuse GOP of reverse Robin Hood 'scheme'
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PIN AI launches mobile app letting you make your own personalized, private DeepSeek or Llama-powered AI model on your phone
PIN AI told VentureBeat they will make money by charging transaction fees for other AI agents to access users' information.VentureBeat - Feb. 13 -
Jurassic bird fossil rewrites history of avian evolution
The fossil of a Jurassic bird unearthed in southeastern China has major implications for the history of avian evolution, researchers say.NBC News - Feb. 13 -
OpenAI Is Looking Across the U.S. for Sites to Build Its Trump-Backed Stargate AI Data Centers
OpenAI has begun visiting locations in Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin this week.Inc. - Feb. 6 -
France unveils 109-billion-euro AI investment as Europe looks to keep up with U.S.
Macron announced the mammoth investment sum ahead of France's AI Action Summit, where world leaders and tech bosses are gathering in Paris this week.CNBC - Feb. 10 -
DeepSeek’s R1 and OpenAI’s Deep Research just redefined AI — RAG, distillation, and custom models will never be the same
Pricing, performance, hallucination risks, clean data: Here’s what DeepSeek and OpenAI's breakthroughs mean for anyone building AI today.VentureBeat - Feb. 6 -
DeepSeek’s AI model is ‘the best work’ out of China but the hype is 'exaggerated,' Google DeepMind CEO says
DeepSeek's AI model "is probably the best work" out of China, Demis Hassabis said on Sunday, but added it was not a scientific advancement.CNBC - Feb. 10 -
Chinese tech giant Baidu to release next-generation AI model this year as DeepSeek shakes up market
Baidu plans to release the next generation of its model for powering generative AI applications in the second half of this year, according to a source familiar with the matter.CNBC - Feb. 12 -
Less supervision, better results: Study shows AI models generalize more effectively on their own
Training LLMs and VLMs through reinforcement learning delivers better results than using hand-crafted examples.VentureBeat - Feb. 12 -
A Legal Win for Content Creators Could Change How AI Models Get Built
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‘Personalized, unrestricted’ AI lab Nous Research launches first toggle-on reasoning model: DeepHermes-3
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As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies
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Xbox Pushes Ahead With Muse, a New Generative AI Model. Devs Say ‘Nobody Will Want This’
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'We are history.' Hood Historian serves as the memory bank for L.A.
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Self-learning AI gives NFL spread, over-under and money-line picks for Eagles vs. Chiefs in Super Bowl 59
Will the Kansas City chiefs three-peat? SportsLine AI evaluated the 2025 Super Bowl odds and revealed its NFL picks, Super Bowl score prediction, and best bets for Eagles vs. Chiefs in Super Bowl 2025CBS Sports - Feb. 9 -
Presenter Sara Cox looks back: ‘Clare and I met when we were teen models in Korea. I got sent home for bad behaviour’
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Super Bowl 59 betting guide, props, Eagles vs. Chiefs odds: AI, model, parlay, expert, and DFS picks revealed
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Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient
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These Are the SpaceX Engineers Already Working Inside the FAA
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