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Anthropic acquires Vercept to give Claude sharper eyes for reading and controlling computer screens

Anthropic has acquired AI startup Vercept to boost Claude's computer use capabilities. Vercept built AI that works directly on a user's machine, understands screen content, and executes tasks.
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Google's Nano Banana 2 brings Pro-level image generation to Flash speeds at up to 40% lower API cost

Google has introduced Nano Banana 2, a new image generation model built on Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, which is set to become the default across all modes in the Gemini app. The model combines the ...
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Google relaunches its AI creative studio Flow with new features and integrations

Google has relaunched and expanded its AI creative studio Flow. The company's image generation experiments, Whisk and ImageFX, are now being integrated directly into Flow, and starting in March, users ...
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Stargate's $500 billion AI infrastructure project reportedly stalls over unresolved disputes between OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank

The Stargate AI data center project worth $500 billion, announced by US President Donald Trump in January 2025, is reportedly running into serious trouble. More than a year after the announcement, the ...
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Anthropic's new AI security tool sends cybersecurity stocks tumbling

Anthropic has launched Claude Code Security, a new tool that detects security vulnerabilities in code that traditional rule-based scanners typically miss. Rather than matching known patterns, the tool ...
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Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises one billion dollars for "spatial intelligence"

World Labs, the AI startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has raised one billion dollars in a new funding round. Backers include Autodesk, Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and AMD, according to a blog ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Anthropic accuses Deepseek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of stealing Claude's AI data through 16 million queries Anthropic says it has caught Chinese AI labs Deepseek, Moonshot, and ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Read full article about: Nvidia reportedly set to invest $30 billion in OpenAI Nvidia is close to investing $30 billion in OpenAI, Reuters reports, citing a person familiar with the matter. The ...
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Claude Opus 4.5 resists prompt injections better than rivals but still falls to strong attacks alarmingly often

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher than its rivals in prompt-injection security, but the results show how limited these defenses still are. A benchmark by the security firm Gray Swan found that a single ...
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Seedream 3.0 beats GPT-4os image generation, says ByteDance

ByteDance introduces Seedream 3.0, a new text-to-image model. Benchmarks suggest improvements over GPT-4o and Midjourney in speed, accuracy, and visual quality. ByteDance has released Seedream 3.0, a ...
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Meta Neuroscientist King: "Some of the concepts like reasoning may need to be re-evaluated"

The neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King leads the Brain & AI team in Meta’s AI division. In an interview with The Decoder, he discusses the connection between AI and neuroscience, the challenges of ...
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OpenAI investors face high risks, internal forecasts show

OpenAI's internal financial projections reveal an aggressive growth strategy coupled with massive losses and heavy reliance on partners like Microsoft, according to documents reviewed by The ...