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Open models will largely lose if they keep chasing closed frontier AI models; instead, open models should serve as complementary tools to closed agents (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)

Techmeme

Nvidia says game developers have full "artistic control over DLSS 5's effects", following backlash alleging that the AI rendering tech altered source material (Tyler Wilde/PC Gamer)

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Alibaba launches Wukong, an enterprise AI platform that coordinates multiple AI agents to handle complex tasks like document editing, currently in beta (Reuters)

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Mistral releases Small 4, its first model to unify reasoning, multimodal, and coding capabilities of its flagship Magistral, Pixtral, and Devstral models (Mistral AI)

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A reporter details harassment and death threats from gamblers who stand to win a Polymarket bet if he would change his report on a missile impact in Israel (Emanuel Fabian/The Times of Israel)

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Fuse, which offers AI-powered loan origination software to credit unions and other financial institutions, raised a $25M Series A (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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The Live Nation trial restarts with a ‘velvet hammer’

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How Disney Imagineering built an Olaf robot, set to arrive at Disneyland Paris this month, and taught it to move via reinforcement learning and simulation (Jacob Krol/TechRadar)

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The Sekiro anime looks gorgeous, gory in new trailer from Crunchyroll

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Witch Hat Atelier review: The perfect fantasy anime to get over your Frieren blues

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Refactoring English: Month 15

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In an all-hands meeting, Fidji Simo described plans to shift OpenAI's strategy around coding and business users, urging staff to avoid "side quests" (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

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[Sponsor] Mux — Video API for Developers

Daring Fireball

RoboForce, which is developing robotics systems to perform physically demanding industrial work, raised $52M led by YZi Labs, bringing its total funding to $67M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

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Nvidia announces the Nemotron Coalition, which includes Thinking Machines Lab, Cursor, and Mistral, to develop an open model trained on Nvidia DGX Cloud (Sebastian Moss/DatacenterDynamics)

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Building the next wave of AI: Freddy del Barrio’s approach for a more human model of intelligent care

The Next Web

Nscale acquires American Intelligence & Power, which owns a 2,250-acre data center campus in West Virginia, where it plans to build up to 8GW of compute by 2031 (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

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The most radical act in an age of outrage is to play

The Next Web

Austin-based Ironlight, which is building a regulated marketplace for tokenized securities, raised a $21M Series A; its platform received FINRA approval in 2025 (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Techmeme

DLSS 5 looks like a real-time generative AI filter for video games

The Verge - All Posts