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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: OpenAI releases GPT-5.3 Instant for smoother everyday conversations and better search OpenAI has released GPT-5.3 Instant, an update to the standard ChatGPT model. The new ...
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ASML plans to expand beyond chip lithography into advanced packaging

ASML, the world's sole manufacturer of EUV lithography machines used to produce advanced chips, is looking to expand beyond its core business. That's according to a Reuters report citing ASML Chief ...
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AI can link fake online names to real identities in minutes for just a few dollars

Commercially available AI models can identify pseudonymous internet users in a fully automated process, at a cost of just one to four dollars per profile. In an experiment involving 338 Hacker News ...
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Moltbook's alleged AI civilization is just a massive void of bloated bot traffic

On Moltbook, allegedly over 2.6 million AI agents interact with each other entirely without human involvement, generating millions of posts and comments in what amounts to a fully autonomous social ...
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The Pentagon-OpenAI-Anthropic fallout comes down to three words: "all lawful use"

OpenAI has disclosed the details of its agreement with the US Department of Defense, defining three red lines: no domestic mass surveillance, no autonomous weapons systems, and no automated high-risk ...
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ElevenLabs and Google dominate Artificial Analysis' updated speech-to-text benchmark

Artificial Analysis has released version 2.0 of its AA-WER speech-to-text benchmark. ElevenLabs' Scribe v2 leads with a word error rate of just 2.3 percent, followed ...
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Perplexity open-sources embedding models that match Google and Alibaba at a fraction of the memory cost

Perplexity has released two open-source embedding models, pplx-embed-v1 and pplx-embed-context-v1, designed to convert search queries and documents into numerical vectors for preselecting relevant ...
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Google Deepmind and OpenAI employees demand Anthropic-style red lines on Pentagon surveillance and autonomous weapons

Anthropic's dispute with the Pentagon is now rippling through Google and OpenAI. According to the New York Times, more than 100 Google AI employees sent a letter to chief scientist Jeff Dean—who had ...
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Meta signs multi-billion dollar deal to rent Google's TPUs in a direct challenge to Nvidia's AI chip dominance

Meta has signed a multi-year, multi-billion dollar contract with Google to rent its AI chips—Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)—for developing new AI models. That's according to The Information. Meta is ...
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OpenAI's up to $110 billion raise lines up almost exactly with the $111 billion it just added to its cash burn forecast

Update, February 27, 2026, evening: According to The Information, OpenAI expects to raise an additional $10 billion from financial investors by the end of March. That would push the post-investment ...
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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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Hollywood's MPA calls Bytedance's Seedance 2.0 a machine built for "systemic infringement"

Update from February 22, 2026: Bytedance's promises (see below) apparently aren't cutting it for Hollywood. The Motion Picture Association has sent the company a cease-and-desist letter over Seedance ...