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Microsoft CEO Nadella tells managers Copilot's Gmail and Outlook integrations ‘don't really work’ and steps in to fix them

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is reportedly slamming the company's AI assistant behind closed doors and stepping in to fix it himself. A few weeks ago, Nadella emailed engineering managers working on ...
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Resemble AI drops Chatterbox Turbo, an open-source text-to-speech model that clones voices in five seconds

AI startup Resemble AI is taking on Elevenlabs with "Chatterbox Turbo," an open text-to-speech model that can clone voices from just five seconds of audio. The company claims its new model beats both ...
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OpenAI seeks new "Head of Preparedness" for AI risks like cyberattacks and mental health

OpenAI is hiring a Head of Preparedness. The position focuses on safety risks posed by AI models. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman points to the now well-documented effects of AI models on mental health as one ...
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ChatGPT's market share falls to 68 percent as Gemini closes in

ChatGPT's grip on the generative AI market continues to slip, according to new data from Similarweb. The chatbot's share of website traffic dropped from 87.2 percent to 68 percent over the past year.
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China proposes rules to combat AI companion addiction

China's cyber authority has released draft regulations to strengthen oversight of AI services that mimic human interaction, requiring providers to warn users about excessive use and intervene when ...
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Anthropic's AI kiosk agent bought a PlayStation 5, ordered a live fish, and drove itself to bankruptcy

The Wall Street Journal ran its own test of Anthropic's AI kiosk, and the results were far messier. Within three weeks, the AI vendor "Claudius" racked up losses exceeding $1,000. The AI gave away ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Security researchers catch "privacy" browser extensions siphoning AI chats and selling them via a data broker If you use a chatbot and an Urban browser extension, you might ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Nvidia's $20 billion Groq deal sure looks like an acquisition as 90 percent of staff moves over In case there was any doubt that Nvidia's Groq deal is anything but a takeover ...
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The ARC benchmark's fall marks another casualty of relentless AI optimization

Update from December 25, 2025: Poetiq has raised the bar even higher on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark. The AI startup achieved a 75 percent accuracy rate on the public test dataset using OpenAI's GPT-5.2 ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Read full article about: OpenAI releases new models for its Realtime API OpenAI has updated its Realtime API with three new model snapshots designed to improve transcription, speech synthesis, and ...
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Meta Neuroscientist King: "Some of the concepts like reasoning may need to be re-evaluated"

The neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King leads the Brain & AI team in Meta’s AI division. In an interview with The Decoder, he discusses the connection between AI and neuroscience, the challenges of ...
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Meta develops AI system MoCha that turns text into animated characters

Meta and University of Waterloo's MoCha AI generates realistic videos from text and speech, with synchronized lip movements and full-body animations. It uses "Speech-Video Window Attention" for ...