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AI music startup Suno doubles its valuation to $5.4 billion while fighting major record labels in court

AI music startup Suno has raised $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation. That's double its valuation from just seven months ago. Bond Capital led the round, with participation from IVP, Forerunner, ...
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Nous Research releases Hermes Desktop, an open-source AI agent for every platform

Nous Research has released Hermes Desktop, an open-source AI agent app under the MIT license. The desktop app is now available as a public preview for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The agent runs across ...
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Ideogram 4.0 drops as an open-weight model with native 2K resolution and improved text rendering

Ideogram has released version 4.0 of its text-to-image model as an open-weight model. According to Ideogram, the new features include native 2K resolution, transparent backgrounds, precise layout ...
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OpenAI models now available on Amazon Web Services

OpenAI is making its GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 language models, along with its Codex coding tool, available through Amazon Web Services (AWS). The models run on Amazon Bedrock in both commercial and ...
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Jonathan Kemper

Google unveiled the new Coral Board at Google I/O - a compact single-board computer for on-device AI. The board features the Coral NPU, an open-source machine learning unit built on the RISC-V ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: OpenAI expands Codex with role-specific plugins to build a general-purpose app for non-developers OpenAI has shipped a batch of new features for Codex, including role-specific ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Read full article about: Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Ultra becomes the smartest open US model, but China still leads Nemotron 3 Ultra lands in the "most attractive quadrant" of the Artificial Analysis chart, ...
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AI and society

Read full article about: The AI boom drove Nvidia's yearly Taiwan spending from $15 billion to $150 billion Nvidia now spends up to $150 billion a year on suppliers like TSMC in Taiwan. Three or four ...
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The first AI proof worthy of math's top journal landed and it won't be the last

An internal reasoning model from OpenAI has disproved the so-called unit distance conjecture posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. OpenAI announced the result alongside a companion paper ...
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Xiaomi's open-weight MiMo-V2.5-Pro takes aim at Claude Opus with hours-long autonomous coding

Xiaomi has released MiMo-V2.5-Pro, a mixture-of-experts model with 1.02 trillion parameters, specifically designed to handle lengthy, autonomous tasks. In internal benchmarks, the model reportedly ...
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Microsoft restructures AI division to chase superintelligence after Nadella once called AI models a commodity

Microsoft is restructuring its AI division to double down on its own AI models, all the way up to superintelligence. That's a notable shift from what the company used to say. The Copilot teams for ...
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ByteDance plans over $30 billion for AI expansion, bets big on Chinese chips

TikTok parent ByteDance is raising its planned AI infrastructure spending for 2026 to over 200 billion yuan (roughly $30 billion), the South China Morning Post reports. That's at least a 25 percent ...