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The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) recently released what it calls its most powerful family of models yet, Olmo 3. But the company kept iterating on the models, expanding its reinforcement learning (RL) runs, to create Olmo 3.1.The new Olmo 3.1 models focus on efficiency, transparency, and control for enterprises. Ai2 updated two of the three versions of Olmo 2: Olmo 3.1 Think 32B, the flagship model optimized for advanced research, and Olmo 3.1 Instruct 32B, designed for instruction-following, multi-turn dia
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A former Chinese official who fled to the U.S. says Beijing has used advanced surveillance technology from U.S. companies to track, intimidate, and punish him and his family across borders. ABC News reports: Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang was recuperating from cancer on a Korean resort island when he got an urgent call: Don't return to China, a friend warned. You're now a fugitive. Days later, a stranger snapped a... Read more ›
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Chandler, Arizona unanimously rejected a proposed AI data center despite heavy lobbying from Big Tech interests and former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Politico reports: The Chandler City Council last night voted down a request by a New York developer to rezone land to build a data center and business complex. The local battle escalated in October after Sinema showed up at a planning commission meeting to offer public comment warning officials... Read more ›
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A San Francisco-based startup has demonstrated what it calls a breakthrough in hardware development: an artificial intelligence system that designed a fully functional Linux computer in one week — a process that would typically consume nearly three months of skilled engineering labor.Quilter, which has raised more than $40 million from investors including Benchmark, Index Ventures, and Coatue, used its physics-driven AI to automate the design of a two-board computer system... Read more ›
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There's no shortage of generative AI benchmarks designed to measure the performance and accuracy of a given model on completing various helpful enterprise tasks — from coding to instruction following to agentic web browsing and tool use. But many of these benchmarks have one major shortcoming: they measure the AI's ability to complete specific problems and requests, not how factual the model is in its outputs — how well it... Read more ›
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Presented by SAPWhen SAP ran a quiet internal experiment to gauge consultant attitudes toward AI, the results were striking. Five teams were asked to validate answers to more than 1,000 business requirements completed by SAP’s AI co-pilot, Joule for Consultants — a workload that would normally take several weeks.Four teams were told the analysis had been completed by junior interns fresh out of school. They reviewed the material, found it... Read more ›
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Presented by Design.comFor most of history, design was the last step in starting a business — something entrepreneurs invested in once the idea was proven. Today, it’s one of the first. The rise of generative AI has shifted how small businesses imagine, launch, and grow — turning what used to be a months-long creative process into something interactive, iterative, and accessible from day one.Search data tells the story. Since 2022,... Read more ›
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The rumors were true: OpenAI on Thursday announced the release of its new frontier large language model (LLM) family, GPT-5.2.It comes at a pivotal moment for the AI pioneer, which has faced intensifying pressure since rival Google’s Gemini 3 LLM seized the top spot on major third-party performance leaderboards and many key benchmarks last month, though OpenAI leaders stressed in a press briefing that the timing of this release had... Read more ›
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The tools are available to everyone. The subscription is company-wide. The training sessions have been held. And yet, in offices from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, a stark divide is opening between workers who have woven artificial intelligence into the fabric of their daily work and colleagues who have barely touched it.The gap is not small. According to a new report from OpenAI analyzing usage patterns across its more than... Read more ›
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There is no shortage of AI benchmarks in the market today, with popular options like Humanity's Last Exam (HLE), ARC-AGI-2 and GDPval, among numerous others.AI agents excel at solving abstract math problems and passing PhD-level exams that most benchmarks are based on, but Databricks has a question for the enterprise: Can they actually handle the document-heavy work most enterprises need them to do?The answer, according to new research from the... Read more ›
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Presented by CelonisThe State of Oklahoma discovered its blind spots the hard way. In April 2023, a legislative report revealed its agencies had spent $3 billion without proper oversight. Janet Morrow, Director of Oklahoma's Risk, Assessment and Compliance Division, set out to track thousands of monthly transactions across dozens of disconnected systems.The Sooner State became the first U.S. state to apply process intelligence (PI) technology for procurement oversight. The transformation,... Read more ›
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The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) recently released what it calls its most powerful family of models yet, Olmo 3. But the company kept iterating on the models, expanding its reinforcement learning (RL) runs, to create Olmo 3.1.The new Olmo 3.1 models focus on efficiency, transparency, and control for enterprises. Ai2 updated two of the three versions of Olmo 2: Olmo 3.1 Think 32B, the flagship model optimized for advanced... Read more ›
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French AI startup Mistral has weathered a rocky period of public questioning over the last year to emerge, now here in December 2025, with new, crowd-pleasing models for enterprise and indie developers.Just days after releasing its powerful open source, general purpose Mistral 3 LLM family for edge devices and local hardware, the company returned today to debut Devstral 2.The release includes a new pair of models optimized for software engineering... Read more ›
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