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On September 20, Qwen open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1: a compact model of roughly 7 billion parameters that combines text-to-image generation with image editing, including transparent backgrounds.
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The German MVUEH radio message of 10 July 1941, unreadable since 2005, has been worked out by OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model — on its own, with no hints about the…
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Anthropic has released optimized versions of more than 30 open models for protein prediction and molecule design. The speedup came from Claude, and an economy mode fits large molecular machines…
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Joby Aviation has sent the autonomous J208 — a converted Cessna Grand Caravan — on a month-long tour across the country: from California to the East Coast and back, with…
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Over eight months, several Fortune 500 companies handed the AI agent Devin COBOL projects — from documenting code to migrating batch jobs. Live transactional systems are still beyond what agents…
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The company introduced a framework for disclosing episodes where model behavior diverges from set goals, and released the first six descriptions covering six months — including 27 altered summaries containing…
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TypeSafe AI has released System One, a class of models that output structured decisions with probabilities instead of text. The first release, Jev, is by the company's own measurements two…
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Fields Medalists have signed a declaration: solving open problems has become a benchmark for AI companies, and this harms mathematics and its living culture.
Read the newsOpenAI's new model handled Neal Agarwal's browser CAPTCHA challenge, where you have to re-prove your humanity. An OpenAI engineer showed the completion, and the blog author tried it himself and…
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Dario Amodei published an essay in which he proposed 'slowing down' the pace of model improvement. In his opinion, AI is progressing too quickly, and the time gained should be…
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A legendary mathematician evaluates AI solutions for Erdős problems as "impressive but not stunning" and talks about changing the very way of doing mathematics.
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A new interactive model from Anthropic economists describes three scenarios for the economic future. In the extreme case, knowledge workers' incomes could fall by more than 10%.
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