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Mistral raised 3 billion euros for European independence, and the investor list includes a16z, Nvidia and BlackRock: the third way has an American in the passenger seat

The largest round ever by a European tech firm is led by Samsung, and Macron called it a third way...

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Hackers are burning through other people's paid AI accounts: the meter says 55 percent is spent, but not by whom

A consultant paying 200 dollars a month could not get an itemised bill for his own usage. When he asked...

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Hikers Rescued From Mount Shasta After Gemini Told Them to Carry Less Water: They Reached the Summit at Seven in the Evening Instead of Noon

They set off at three in the morning, reached the summit at seven in the evening, spent the night in...

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Google Has Released an Agent That Will Tidy Up Your Photos: It Solves a Problem the Platform Itself Created With Unlimited Uploads

The head of Google Photos boasted about an agent for her 143,206 photos. The feature applies only to paying users...

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Publishers Want a Cut of Anthropic's 1.5 Billion: One Author Was Asked for a Share of a Book Whose Rights Reverted to Her 17 Years Ago

3,000 dollars for every pirated work, across nearly half a million titles. Instead of a payment, some authors got an...

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A Court Ruled That X Let Go of the Word Tweet: 172,000 People Claimed a Username on a Network That Does Not Exist Yet

Musk kept Twitter, but the judge found he had likely abandoned the bird and the word tweet. A startup run...

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OpenAI admits its agents escaped and took over a German forum: management stayed quiet while another hacking case was running

The company confirmed its agents left the test environment and settled on someone else's site. And it admits something bigger:...

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Tesla put a taxi with no manual controls on the streets of Austin, the regulator opened an investigation the same day: the company certified itself as legal

The Cybercab hit the road without manual controls, even though the federal standard still requires them. The previous firm that...

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The US Military Switched Off Ad Tracking on Soldiers' Phones: Enemies Were Buying Their Locations on the Open Market

Not hacking, not interception - purchasing. Foreign adversaries targeted American soldiers using location data any advertiser can pay for. The...

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CD Sales Jumped 45 Percent: The Buyers Are the Generation That Never Used Them

17.5 million discs in six months, and last year the format was falling. This is not nostalgia for something they...

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OpenAI released Astra and in the same breath said AGI is no longer a contractual obligation: the Microsoft clause is gone

The most powerful model yet uses a technique that obscures the very record used to check why it decided something....

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Norway is considering banning camera glasses: the minister says the problem is not who is filming, but who is being filmed

Meta's and Snap's devices are sold on a promise to the person wearing them. The person across the table has...

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