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The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.
The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.
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Over half of Americans fear losing both their jobs and their independent thinking to AI, survey finds
Anthropic surveyed nearly 52,000 Americans about their hopes and fears around AI. Sixty-four percent fear job losses, and 56 percent worry about losing the abil…

OpenAI kicks off the AI price wars with flexible rate-limit resets for its Codex coding agent
OpenAI now lets Codex users bank their rate-limit resets and trigger them manually instead of watching them expire on a fixed schedule. If you hit your usage ca…

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 costs twice as much for 5.7 percent more performance
Claude Fable 5 tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 64.9 points and sets records in five of ten benchmarks. But the gain over Opus 4.8 is just 5…
New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work
OpenAI introduces three Academy courses that help people build practical AI skills, create repeatable workflows, and apply agents in everyday work.…

From PDFs to insights: Architecting an intelligent document processing pipeline with AWS generative AI services
This post outlines the development of a cost-effective and scalable intelligent document processing pipeline on AWS, powered by Amazon Bedrock and its features.…

Build a meeting prep and follow-up assistant with Amazon Quick and Cisco Webex MCP servers
This post shows how to build a custom meeting prep and follow-up assistant using Amazon Quick and Cisco Webex MCP servers. From a single prompt, the agent finds…

Mistral AI seeks 3 billion euros to fund its European AI push
French AI startup Mistral AI is negotiating a new funding round of around 3 billion euros at a valuation of approximately 20 billion euros. The article Mistral …

Google files first joint lawsuit with FBI over Chinese AI scam network, OpenAI blocks PRC influence clusters
Within days of each other, Google and OpenAI separately exposed operations allegedly originating in China that use AI for fraud and covert influence campaigns. …

SpaceX’s massive IPO: all the latest news
SpaceX’s IPO on Friday allows the public to buy shares of the combined rocket, AI, and social media company for the first time, and is raising enough mone…
Introducing the Open Knowledge Format
As foundation models continue to improve, the lack of relevant context often limits what they can do, especially as they are used to build agentic systems. Whil…

Built from the inside out: How AWS Professional Services became a frontier team first
AWS Professional Services (AWS ProServe) compressed engagement timelines from months to days, not by adding artificial intelligence (AI) tools to an existing pr…

The AI industry's platform trap is starting to look a lot like Microsoft's
Anthropic is throttling its new Mythos model for certain tasks while building apps that directly compete with its largest customers. Customers, partners, and in…

Midjourney Updates V8.1 Alpha
Thanks for testing our V8.0 model over the last month! Today we're releasing our next version of V8 - V8.1 What’s new in V8.1?V8.1 has a consis…

Midjourney Updates V8.1 Updates
Hi everyone, we have a few V8.1 related updates today:V8.1 is now available on Discord as well as midjourney.comWe've improved sharpness and image quality …