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ChatGPT Search can be tricked into misleading users, new research reveals

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ChatGPT Search, an AI-powered search engine that went live this month, can be fooled into generating completely misleading summaries, UK newspaper The Guardian has found. ChatGPT’s search feature is meant to make browsing faster by doing things like summarizing a webpage’s product reviews. But The Guardian found it could get ChatGPT to ignore negative reviews […]

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DeepSeek’s new AI model appears to be one of the best ‘open’ challengers yet

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A Chinese lab has created what appears to be one of the most powerful “open” AI models to date. The model, DeepSeek V3, was developed by the AI firm DeepSeek, and was released on Wednesday under a permissive license that allows developers to download and modify it for most applications, including commercial ones. DeepSeek V3

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Elon Musk’s xAI lands $6B in new cash to fuel AI ambitions

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Updated December 25, 12:21 p.m. Pacific: Added details of xAI’s valuation and Kingdom Holdings’ contribution. xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has raised $6 billion in a Series C financing round. The company announced this week that Andreessen Horowitz , Blackrock, Fidelity, Lightspeed, MGX, Morgan Stanley, OIA, QIA, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Nvidia,

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Google is using Anthropic’s Claude to improve its Gemini AI

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Contractors working to improve Google’s Gemini AI are comparing its answers against outputs produced by Anthropic’s competitor model Claude, according to internal correspondence seen by TechCrunch.  Google would not say, when reached by TechCrunch for comment, if it had obtained permission for its use of Claude in testing against Gemini. As tech companies race to

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Elon Musk’s xAI lands $6B in new cash to fuel AI ambitions

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xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has raised $6 billion, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. Investors gave a minimum of $77,593, per the filing (97 participated, but the document doesn’t reveal their identities). xAI later announced (confirming some earlier reporting) that Andreessen Horowitz , Blackrock, Fidelity, Kingdom Holdings,

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‘Genius Girl’ goes from inspiring a Korean TV show character to raising a $100 million AI fund

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On the weekend, as most students were stumbling back from the bars, Songyee Yoon was rushing across her South Korean campus. Around dinner time, she would run some programs on her college’s supercomputer and then, as the computer chugged through her program, she’d wait sleepless in her dorm. “I woke up at like 2 am,

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Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500M funding round

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AI-powered search engine Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500 million funding round, valuing the startup at $9 billion. Bloomberg, citing sources familiar, reports that the round was led by Institutional Venture Partners, and that it closed earlier in December. In an email to TechCrunch, a Perplexity spokesperson declined to comment. The mammoth tranche comes as

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