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Elon Musk's frontier generative AI startup xAI formally opened developer access to its Grok 4.1 Fast models last night and introduced a new Agent Tools API—but the technical milestones were immediately subverted by a wave of public ridicule about Grok's responses on the social network X over the last few days praising its creator Musk as more athletic than championship-winning American football players and legendary boxer Mike Tyson, despite having displayed no public prowess at either sport.They emerge as.
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MiniMax, a major Chinese AI startup that develops foundation models, aims to raise as much as 4.19 billion Hong Kong dollars ($538 million) in its initial public offering, according to the firm’s latest filings on Wednesday. Cornerstone investors in MiniMax’s Hong Kong IPO include Abu Dhabi ... Read more ›
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In an opinion piece for Computerworld, columnist Steven Vaughan-Nichols argues that restrictive visa policies and a hostile border climate under the Trump administration are driving foreign tech workers, researchers, and conference speakers away from the U.S. The result, he says, is a gradual shift of talent, events, and long-term innovation toward more welcoming regions such as Europe, Canada, and Asia. From the report: I go to a lot of tech... Read more ›
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Two cybersecurity professionals who spent their careers defending organizations against ransomware attacks have pleaded guilty in a Florida federal court to using ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware to extort American businesses throughout 2023. Ryan Goldberg, a 40-year-old incident response manager from Georgia, and Kevin Martin, a 36-year-old ransomware negotiator from Texas, admitted to conspiring to obstruct commerce through extortion. Between April and December 2023, Goldberg, Martin, and a third unnamed co-co Read more ›
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Axios reports that venture capitalist Alex Davis is warning that a speculative rush to build data centers without committed tenants could trigger a financing crunch by 2027-2028. "This critique is coming from inside the AI optimist camp," notes Axios, as Davis' firm, Disruptive, "recently led a large investment in AI chipmaker Groq, which then signed a $20 billion licensing deal with Nvidia. It's also backed such unicorn startups as Reflection... Read more ›
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PC Gamer argues that 2025 was a year full of high-profile AI embarrassments across games and entertainment, with Disney and Lucasfilm serving as the "opening salvo." From the report: At a TED talk back in April, Lucasfilm senior vice president of creative innovation Rob Bredow presented a demonstration of what he called "a new era of technology." Across 50 years of legendary innovation in miniature design, practical effects, and computer... Read more ›
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Presented by Microsoft and NVIDIAAs the world’s leading platform providers and champions for advancing AI globally, NVIDIA and Microsoft continue to deliver unequaled value for organizations investing in and deploying AI. The companies’ collaborative efforts at the 2025 Microsoft Ignite conference offered tangible proof, introducing practitioners and decision-makers to new and expanded AI infrastructure and cloud solutions for accelerating enterprise transformation and real-world impact with AI agents.IT an Read more ›
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It's refreshing when a leading AI company states the obvious. In a detailed post on hardening ChatGPT Atlas against prompt injection, OpenAI acknowledged what security practitioners have known for years: "Prompt injection, much like scams and social engineering on the web, is unlikely to ever be fully 'solved.'"What’s new isn’t the risk — it’s the admission. OpenAI, the company deploying one of the most widely used AI agents, confirmed publicly... Read more ›
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The drumbeat for AI is deafening. We’re surrounded by a mix of hype, fear and intense pressure to do something with this technology that seems to be advancing at the speed of light. For CIOs and enterprise technology leaders, the path forward can seem murky and fraught with the risk of missteps. But I believe the greatest risk isn't getting it wrong; it's waiting for a “perfect” AI strategy while... Read more ›
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Hot on the heels of its new $140 million Series D fundraising round, the multi-modal enterprise AI media creation platform fal.ai, known simply as "fal" or "Fal" is back with a year-end surprise: a faster, more efficient, and cheaper version of the Flux.2 [dev] open source image model from Black Forest Labs.Fal's new model FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo is a distilled, ultra-fast image generation model that’s already outperforming many of its... Read more ›
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For the past year, enterprise decision-makers have faced a rigid architectural trade-off in voice AI: adopt a "Native" speech-to-speech (S2S) model for speed and emotional fidelity, or stick with a "Modular" stack for control and auditability. That binary choice has evolved into distinct market segmentation, driven by two simultaneous forces reshaping the landscape.What was once a performance decision has become a governance and compliance decision, as voice agents move from... Read more ›
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With the ecosystem of agentic tools and frameworks exploding in size, navigating the many options for building AI systems is becoming increasingly difficult, leaving developers confused and paralyzed when choosing the right tools and models for their applications.In a new study, researchers from multiple institutions present a comprehensive framework to untangle this complex web. They categorize agentic frameworks based on their area of focus and tradeoffs, providing a practical guide... Read more ›
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