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Enterprise AI

Battlefield AI Grapples With Risk-Tolerance Minefield

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Future battlefields will be shaped by AI weapons that defense firms and Big Tech are vying to build for the military. Guardrails are lagging.

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Closes Its Latest Funding Round with One Major Request

As OpenAI wraps its latest funding round — a $6.6 billion raise at a $157 billion valuation — it’s asking financial backers for exclusivity.

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Artificial Intelligence

AI is Passing the First Stage of its Antitrust Era

It’s not a hallucination: Artificial intelligence companies have actually managed to placate at least one national regulator.

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Artificial Intelligence

Can Voice Assistants Make a Comeback in the Age of AI?

Once upon a time, the biggest prestige battle in Silicon Valley was who had the best voice assistant. Then came ChatGPT.

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CIO Upside

Weighing the Risk-Reward Ratio of ‘Vibe Coding’

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“Now you can have the support of AI to help you navigate.”

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Patent Drop

Microsoft Patent Protects AI Models from Data Security “Jailbreak”

Though there are a lot of ways to protect AI models, monitoring user behavior is a vital piece of the puzzle.

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Artificial Intelligence

The US Government is Ready to Regulate AI

The US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute announced OpenAI and Anthropic agreed to allow it to test and evaluate new models for safety.

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Patent Drop

OpenAI Adds to its Small Pool of Patent Filings

Because of the massive head start that bigger tech firms have, OpenAI may “find themselves boxed out.”

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Semiconductors

Intel Takes an L, Pulling Back From Chip Biz Altera

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Altera specializes in a type of semiconductor that’s used in a variety of industries including telecom, defense, and robotics.

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Could Upend Electricity Demand

AI’s energy needs are enormous, and could have a once-in-a-generation impact on the electricity market.

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Patent Drop

Google Patent Signals Interest in Small Chatbots Amid Language Model Craze

Google wants to make chatbot development easier with its latest patent.

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Artificial Intelligence

The AI Bubble isn’t as Bubbly as It Looks

Nvidia’s market cap this week surpassed Microsoft’s to become the world’s most-valuable company. But it may be an outlier among AI firms.

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CIO Upside

With New Models Every Day, Enterprise AI Battle is ‘Fair Game’

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“There is no one model that does everything.”

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Artificial Intelligence

Tencent Touts that its Latest AI Model is Faster than DeepSeek

One point Chinese AI companies including Tencent and DeepSeek emphasize about their new models: efficiency.

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Artificial Intelligence

Whatever Happened to All Those AI Copyright Lawsuits?

Last Tuesday, content conglomerate Thomson Reuters notched a big legal win against AI firm ROSS. Is it a sign of what’s to come?

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Competition Heats Up With OpenAI Alumni On the Prowl

The fight for AI talent is starting to look like the end of a Marvel movie — a million fighters large and small.

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