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Character Technologies, the owner of the AI-companion app Character.AI, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware on October 12, 2026, and plans to sell its assets. The stalking horse bidder,…
Read the newsThe Animator tool turns a text prompt into a whiteboard-style drawn video: it writes the script itself, draws the frames, voices the text, and animates icons at the moment their…
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Andrej Karpathy returned to his April post on X: the gap in understanding of model capabilities is not narrowing but turning into a sharp funnel, from billions barely familiar with…
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Three experiments with 1,222 participants showed that while the assistant is available, people solve tasks more accurately, but once it is taken away, accuracy and persistence drop sharply.
Read the newsThe new 740-million-parameter model runs locally, and a meeting notebook has been built on it: it turns short jottings into detailed notes and keeps the audio with the transcript on…
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Researchers proposed converting ready-made language models to work with UTF-8 bytes. This takes less than 1% of a typical pretraining budget, and the quality of the byte versions is close…
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Nikon disqualified the winner of the Small World In Motion competition: the jury did not recognize the generative AI work in the video by Ning Xu. First place went to…
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On October 8, 2026, Anthropic published a new version of its model usage policy; it takes effect on November 12. Among the edits: a separate prohibition on sustained and needless…
Read the newsThe model for routing, classification, prioritization, and checking is available in Microsoft Foundry and through OpenRouter. By Microsoft's own measurements, it showed the best accuracy on 36 benchmarks and turned…
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According to an Axios report dated October 9, executives at major AI companies are working through scenarios for a serious incident: from cyberattacks on infrastructure to political consequences. Some assessments…
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An independent researcher from Tarragona, using Claude Code, noticed a star with regular dips in brightness in the TESS archives. The telescope will take a closer look at it from…
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Chinese company Manus raised more than $500 million. The round was led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with Tencent, HSG and ZhenFund taking part. It is the first round…
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