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Anthropic launches Claude for Healthcare one week after OpenAI's hospital push

Anthropic launched Claude for Healthcare one week after OpenAI's similar announcement, offering HIPAA-compliant AI tools with access to Medicare databases, ICD-10 coding, and over 35 million PubMed ...
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OpenAI brings back three top researchers from Mira Murati's startup Thinking Machines

The US AI industry continues to deliver drama. OpenAI has rehired three former employees from Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines, including co-founder Barret Zoph, who was recently fired as ...
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China reportedly tightens Nvidia H200 restrictions, limits purchases to special cases

The Chinese government has tightened its stance on Nvidia's H200 chips. According to The Information, officials told some tech companies this week that H200 purchases will only be approved under ...
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OpenAI will soon test ads in ChatGPT despite CEO Sam Altman once calling the idea dystopian

OpenAI will begin testing advertisements in ChatGPT in the coming weeks in the US, with ads initially appearing only in the free version and the new Go subscription tier. Ads will appear at the end of ...
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Deutsche Telekom puts Elevenlabs AI on the phone to handle customer calls

Deutsche Telekom is soon using AI voice agents from Elevenlabs in its customer service. Customers can talk to realistic-sounding AI voices around the clock through the app or by phone. The partnership ...
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OpenAI wants its API format to become the industry standard

OpenAI is pushing "Open Responses," an open interface that works with language models from different providers. The project builds on OpenAI's Responses API and lets developers write code once and run ...
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UAE leads with 64% AI adoption rate, leaving the US and Europe far behind, Microsoft says

Around 16.3 percent of the world's population now uses generative AI tools, according to a report by the Microsoft AI Economy Institute. The divide between industrialized and developing nations is ...
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OpenAI's "Sweetpea" AI wearable allegedly takes aim at Apple's Airpods

A new leak reveals details about OpenAI's planned hardware, an audio device designed to compete with Apple's Airpods. X and Weibo leaker "Smart Pikachu" claims OpenAI is developing a device codenamed ...
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Apple turns to Google's Gemini as Siri's technical debt becomes too much to handle

Apple will use Google's Gemini models for its AI features, including a revamped version of Siri. The multi-year partnership means Apple will rely on Google's Gemini and cloud technology for its ...
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Deepfakes: How it all began - and where it could lead us

AI-faked images and videos - so-called deepfakes - have developed rapidly in recent years. Here, we trace the history and describe the most important milestones. What do all the people in the cover ...
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The mere existence of Google TPUs reportedly saved OpenAI 30% on Nvidia chips

Google is offering its new TPUv7 chips to outside companies for the first time, entering direct competition with Nvidia. AI startup Anthropic is a major customer and could use up to one million TPUs, ...
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Large Language Models and the Lost Middle Phenomenon

Researchers at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and Samaya AI have found that large language models (LLMs) perform best when retrieving information at the beginning or end of an input, similar to the ...