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Shared ChatGPT conversations are being indexed by search engines like Google and Bing, revealing private or sensitive queries that users may not expect to be discoverable.

OpenAI launched Stargate Norway, its first AI data center in Europe, as part of the OpenAI for Countries program. This facility will deliver 230MW capacity and 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs by 2026, leveraging Narvik's hydropower and cool climate for sustainable AI infrastructure.

China's cyber regulator recently held a meeting with Nvidia over serious security issues with the company's artificial intelligence chips. It claims that Nvidia's H20 chips, which were designed for the Chinese market to comply with US export restrictions, have location tracking and that they can be remotely shut down. Major Chinese tech groups have received informal guidance to increase purchases of domestic AI chips to reduce reliance on Nvidia and support the evolution of a rival domestic chip ecosystem.

A walkthrough for building an AI assistant that can browse online clothing stores, locate specific garments, and generate virtual try-on previews showing how the clothes would look on you.

Foundation models are shaping the future of computing. Model API spending has more than doubled in six months. Enterprises are increasing production inference rather than just model development, marking a shift from previous years. Code generation has become AI's first breakout use case. While open source continues to advance, Western labs have seen a slowdown in frontier breakthroughs, resulting in enterprise dollars consolidating around a few high-performing, closed-source models.

Buddhist scholars analyzed an AI-generated "sutra" created by ChatGPT o3, finding sophisticated philosophical concepts and imagery that effectively evokes core Buddhist teachings like emptiness through paradoxical deconstruction. However, they warned that while LLMs can recite dharma teachings, they lack true insight and may dangerously convince users they're receiving true divine guidance when prompted for spiritual advice.

Atlassian's new State of DevEx report shows that while developers are saving time with AI, they're also facing more organizational complexity than ever. We surveyed developers and managers to uncover what's really happening behind the hype. Get the full breakdown and learn how to improve DevEx in an AI-powered world.

A Fractional Gaussian Filter and Pruning (FGFP) framework combines fractional-order differential calculus and Gaussian functions to compress neural networks for edge deployment.

The design philosophy for building AI applications is still in its infancy. One thing we can predict is that models will get much better. Designing AI applications to take advantage of this is probably the most important thing. It's important to understand your application structure, re-evaluate that structure as models improve, and make it easy to remove structure.

Sachin Dev Duggal was ousted as CEO of $1.5 billion AI unicorn Builder.ai after investigators uncovered $249 million in fabricated sales and "round tripping" schemes. The company, which claimed AI could automate app development but relied heavily on human programmers in India, allegedly overstated revenue by 300% while Duggal transferred investor funds to personal accounts for luxury expenses.

Apple CEO Tim Cook's remarks on the company's third-quarter earnings call confirm that the company is going to invest more heavily in AI technology. He said that Apple is always looking to buy companies of any size that could help it develop its AI offerings. Apple is facing growing pressure from Wall Street to catch up to its Silicon Valley peers. In addition to growing its investment, Apple is also rearranging staff internally to focus more on AI.

Meta's shares are up 11% after earnings today, driven largely by the success of AI-powered ad recommendations, which drove 5% more conversions on Instagram and 3% on Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg told analysts the company will push aggressively on AI investments as the most aggressive AI timelines have held true.

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Google Photos has introduced new creative tools that let users transform still photos into short videos and remix images with artistic effects.

Anthropic has released two major new features for Claude: the ability to draft and send emails, messages, and calendar invites directly from the Claude app, and the ability to upload PDFs, images, code files, and more to AI-powered apps.

GitHub's AI coding assistant hit 20 million cumulative users, adding 5 million since April and now serving 90% of the Fortune 100, with enterprise adoption up 75% quarter‑over‑quarter.