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Chinese AI industry admits US remains ahead for now

Leading figures in China's AI industry are tempering expectations: China won't overtake the US in the AI race anytime soon. Justin Lin, head of Alibaba's Qwen model series, puts the odds of a Chinese ...
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China captured the global lead in open-weight AI development during 2025, Stanford analysis shows

A Stanford analysis shows that at least a dozen Chinese developers, including Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and Deepseek, are now building AI models that match global competition. Alibaba's Qwen has ...
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Convogo's founders join OpenAI to close the gap between AI potential and actual use

OpenAI is bringing in the team behind Convogo, an AI startup that built software for evaluating executives, as part of its broader cloud strategy. Founder Matt Cooper announced the news on LinkedIn.
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EU orders X to preserve all Grok-related documents through 2026

The European Commission has ordered Elon Musk's platform X to preserve all internal documents and data related to the AI chatbot Grok through the end of 2026. A Commission spokesperson confirmed the ...
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Google brings Gemini AI to Gmail with summaries, smart replies, and inbox prioritization

Google integrates its Gemini 3 model into Gmail and introduces AI Overviews in the US, which automatically summarizes email conversations and makes mailboxes searchable using natural language. The ...
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Project Gumdrop: OpenAI's first AI gadget could send handwritten notes to ChatGPT

OpenAI has reportedly shifted production of its first AI hardware device from Luxshare to Foxconn. The company wants to avoid manufacturing in China, according to Taiwanese business newspaper Economic ...
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 can tackle some tasks lasting nearly five hours

AI research organization METR has released new benchmark results for Claude Opus 4.5. Anthropic's latest model achieved a 50 percent time horizon of roughly 4 hours and 49 minutes—the highest score ...
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Runway unveils first "General World Model" alongside major Gen-4.5 upgrades

Runway has upgraded Gen-4.5 and introduced GWM-1, the company's first "General World Model." The recently introduced Gen-4.5 now features native audio generation and audio editing, as well as ...
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GPT-5.2 lands to top Google's Gemini 3 in the AI benchmark game just four weeks after GPT-5.1

OpenAI has launched GPT-5.2 in three versions—Instant, Thinking, and Pro—claiming it is the first AI model to achieve expert-level performance in knowledge work tasks. The most notable progress is in ...
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OpenAI insists its shopping suggestions shouldn't be seen as advertising

Paid users of ChatGPT recently saw a prompt asking them to connect their account with Target for shopping, which some interpreted as an advertisement. But an OpenAI product manager denied that any ...
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EU plans five AI gigafactories with 100,000 high-performance AI chips

The European Union is planning a major expansion of its AI infrastructure. The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Commission want to build up to five AI gigafactories across Europe to ...
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Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail

Alibaba's Qwen3-VL, launched in September, outperforms GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on benchmarks that require solving math questions using images, analyzing videos, and understanding documents. The ...