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Project Gumdrop: OpenAI's first AI gadget could send handwritten notes to ChatGPT

OpenAI has reportedly shifted production of its first AI hardware device from Luxshare to Foxconn. The company wants to avoid manufacturing in China, according to Taiwanese business newspaper Economic ...
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OpenAI seeks new "Head of Preparedness" for AI risks like cyberattacks and mental health

OpenAI is hiring a Head of Preparedness. The position focuses on safety risks posed by AI models. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman points to the now well-documented effects of AI models on mental health as one ...
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ByteDance's StoryMem gives AI video models a memory so characters stop shapeshifting between scenes

Researchers from ByteDance and Nanyang Technological University have developed StoryMem, a system designed to maintain visual consistency in AI-generated videos across multiple scenes. The system ...
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Resemble AI drops Chatterbox Turbo, an open-source text-to-speech model that clones voices in five seconds

AI startup Resemble AI is taking on Elevenlabs with "Chatterbox Turbo," an open text-to-speech model that can clone voices from just five seconds of audio. The company claims its new model beats both ...
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AI fraud forces world's largest accounting body to end online exams

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the world's largest accountancy organization, will stop offering online exams starting March 2026. The decision comes as AI-powered cheating ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Read full article about: More than five percent of ChatGPT messages worldwide are about health More than five percent of all messages sent through ChatGPT worldwide deal with health topics. According ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Abu Dhabi's TII claims its Falcon H1R 7B reasoning model matches rivals seven times its size The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) from Abu Dhabi has released Falcon H1R ...
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ChatGPT might be draining your brain, MIT warns - what ‘cognitive debt’ means for you

An MIT Media Lab study found that students who used ChatGPT to write essays showed weaker brain connectivity and poorer recall compared to those who wrote without any tools or used traditional search ...
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OpenAI has reportedly misjudged its cash burn by $80 billion

The main reason for these numbers is the soaring cost of computing power needed to train and run OpenAI's models, along with a major push to build out its own server infrastructure. The company plans ...
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Chatbots are now rivaling social networks as a core layer of internet infrastructure

Generative AI systems reached around seven billion monthly web visits in September 2025, a 76% increase compared to the previous year, according to Similarweb. ChatGPT remains at the center of the AI ...
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Google launches image-to-video feature for Veo 3 in Gemini

Google has added a new feature to Veo 3, its AI video app, that lets users turn a single image into a short video. Anyone with a Pro or Ultra subscription can upload a photo in the Gemini app or on ...
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Bytedance launches Agent TARS, an open-source AI automation agent

Bytedance has introduced Agent TARS, an experimental open-source automation tool that visually processes web pages and interacts with the command line and file system, currently limited to macOS. The ...