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Mistral’s Le Chat chatbot gets a productivity push with new ‘deep research’ mode

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French AI lab Mistral introduced a range of new features to its Le Chat chatbot on Thursday that bring it closer to the capabilities of rivals like OpenAI and Google. The new update includes a new “deep research” mode, native multilingual reasoning, and advanced image editing.  The news comes a couple of days after Mistral […]

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OpenAI and Anthropic researchers decry ‘reckless’ safety culture at Elon Musk’s xAI

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AI safety researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other organizations are speaking out publicly against the “reckless” and “completely irresponsible” safety culture at xAI, the billion-dollar AI startup owned by Elon Musk. The criticisms follow weeks of scandals at xAI that have overshadowed the company’s technological advances. Last week, the company’s AI chatbot, Grok, spouted antisemitic

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Nvidia’s resumption of H20 chip sales related to rare earth element trade talks

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Rare earth elements appear to be behind Nvidia’s stance on China.  After announcing in June plans to essentially withdraw from the Chinese market, the semiconductor chip and AI giant reversed course and said it was filing an application to restart sales of its H20 AI chip to China. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Tuesday that

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Meta reportedly scores two more high-profile OpenAI researchers

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OpenAI researcher Jason Wei will join Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab, reports Wired, citing two sources familiar with the matter. Another team member, Hyung Won Chung, may also join Meta.  Sources told Wired that both the researchers’ internal OpenAI Slack profiles are currently deactivated.  Wei and Chung would be Meta’s latest grab as CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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A former OpenAI engineer describes what it’s really like to work there

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Three weeks ago, an engineer named Calvin French-Owen, who worked on one of OpenAI’s most promising new products, resigned from the company.  He just published a fascinating blog post on what it was like to work there for a year, including the sleepless sprint to build Codex. That’s OpenAI’s new coding agent that competes with

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