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How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
Cybersecurity researchers report that AI safety guardrails implemented by OpenAI and Anthropic are hindering their...
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How to Build an End-to-End OCR Pipeline with Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR for High-Resolution Images and Multi-Page PDF Parsing
In this tutorial, we build a complete workflow for running Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR model on document images and multi-page PDFs. From configuring the GPU environment to comparing high-detail tiled...
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Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions
Amazon is updating Alexa Plus with improved AI capabilities to handle more complex smart home instructions. The update...
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What the OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack Means for Enterprises
OpenAI and Hugging Face experienced a security incident that highlights the importance of cybersecurity practices for...
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AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system
AMD is launching its Helios AI rack-scale system to compete with Nvidia's offerings in the AI infrastructure market....
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Insurance startup Corgi reportedly raised more money at $4B — its third round in 8 weeks
Corgi, an AI insurance startup, reportedly raised additional funding at a $4 billion valuation in its third funding...
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Andrew Ng Just Released OpenWorker: An Open-Source, Local-First Desktop AI Coworker That Returns Finished Deliverables Instead of Chat
Andrew Ng released OpenWorker, an open-source MIT-licensed desktop AI agent that delivers finished work products...
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Schneider Electric, AMD Unveil Blueprint for AI Factory Deployments
Schneider Electric and AMD have jointly developed a blueprint for deploying AI computing infrastructure in factories,...
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AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing
AegisAI, founded by former Google security executives, secured $36M in funding to develop AI agents that detect...
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Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers
Patreon is laying off 20% of its workforce (93 employees), with CEO Jack Conte citing AI's transformation of the tech...
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Flux 3 generates videos with native audio up to 20 seconds long, a first for Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs released Flux 3, a multimodal foundation model that can generate videos with native audio up to 20...
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Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded
Runway launched a Media Router through its developer platform to position itself as infrastructure for generative...
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Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon
If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.
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AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors
Etched, a startup founded by three Harvard dropouts, has achieved a $10.3B valuation with backing from prominent...
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Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 is a small open-weight coding model that punches well above its size
Poolside released Laguna S 2.1, a compact coding model that outperforms larger competitors by using training techniques...
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The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left
Right-wing residents in Florida are protesting the expansion of AI data centers in their community, seeking a permanent...
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Nvidia bets physical AI can solve healthcare robotics’ data problem
Nvidia has introduced a Medical Physics Simulation framework that treats healthcare robots as physical AI systems...
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Best Open Speech Recognition (ASR) Models in 2026: WER, Languages, Latency, and License Compared
Open speech recognition models have diversified beyond Whisper dominance in 2026, with Cohere Transcribe, IBM Granite...
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Remember Jibo? Its Successor Is a Wearable That Turns Your Life Into AI Slop
iKairos, a successor to Jibo backed by the original founders, is a wearable or desk-mounted AI journal that...
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Meet Gigatoken: A Rust BPE Tokenizer that Encodes Text at 24.53 GB/s, up to 989x Faster than HuggingFace Tokenizers
Gigatoken is a Rust-based BPE tokenizer that achieves 24.53 GB/s encoding speed on GPT-2 tokenization, significantly...
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