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U.S. Tightens Grip on AI Chips: U.S. makes new rules for AI chip export rules to China, launches Nvidia investigation

The U.S. government escalated its long-running effort to block China’s access to cutting-edge AI hardware.
Comparison chart of GPT-4.1, o3, and o4-mini with other models on coding, math, tool use, and multimodal reasoning benchmarks.
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OpenAI Launches Cost-Effective Alternatives: OpenAI replaces GPT-4.5 with GPT-4.1 Family, plus o3 and o4-mini, new models focused on reasoning and coding

OpenAI refreshed its roster of models and scheduled the largest, most costly one for removal.
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The Fall and Rise of Sam Altman: Inside Sam Altman’s brief ouster from OpenAI

A behind-the-scenes account provides new details about the abrupt firing and reinstatement of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in November 2023.
Diagram of Modal Context Protocol showing MCP client-server architecture, APIs, and local and remote data sources.
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Open Standard for Tool Use and Data Access Gains Momentum: OpenAI adopts Model Context Protocol to boost LLM tool integration

OpenAI embraced Model Context Protocol, providing powerful support for an open standard that connects large language models to tools and data.
Llama 4 Behemoth benchmark chart comparing coding, reasoning, and multilingual scores with Claude, Gemini, and GPT-4.5.
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Llama’s Mixture of Vision-Language Experts: Meta releases Llama 4 models, claims edge over AI competitors

Meta updated its popular open-weights models, claiming performance superior to closed competitors in three size classes.
Colorful AI-themed labyrinth game interface with multiple characters and neural icons in a futuristic digital design.
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Scraping the Web? Beware the Maze: Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth traps scrapers with decoy pages

Bots that scrape websites for AI training data often ignore do-not-crawl requests. Now web publishers can enforce such appeals by luring scrapers to AI-generated decoy pages.
GIF of AI-assisted art: A landscape is edited, a cyborg sketch turns photorealistic, and a cat reads a newspaper, showing human input for copyright
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Some AI-Generated Works Are Copyrightable: U.S. Copyright Office says that no new laws are needed for AI-generated works

The United States Copyright Office determined that existing laws are sufficient to decide whether a given AI-generated work is protected by copyright, making additional legislation unnecessary.
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Judge Upholds Copyright in AI Training Case: U.S. court rejects fair use defense in Thomson Reuters AI lawsuit

A United States court delivered a major ruling that begins to answer the question whether, and under what conditions, training an AI system on copyrighted material is considered fair use that doesn’t require permission.
QwQ-32B vs DeepSeek-R1 AI model performance benchmark across AIME24, LiveCodeBench, LiveBench, IFEval, and BFCL datasets.
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Compact Reasoning: QwQ-32B challenges DeepSeek-R1 and other larger reasoning models

Most models that have learned to reason via reinforcement learning were huge models. A much smaller model now competes with them.
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Amazon’s Next-Gen Voice Assistant: Alexa+ adds generative AI and agents, using Claude and other models

Amazon announced Alexa+, a major upgrade to its long-running voice assistant.
Table comparing Claude 3.7, 3.5, o1, o3-mini, DeepSeek R1, and Grok 3 Beta on reasoning, coding, tools, visuals, and math.
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Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet implements a hybrid reasoning approach that lets users decide how much thinking they want the model to do before it renders a response.
Table comparing GPT-4.5, GPT-4o, and o3-mini on GPQA, AIME 2024, MMLU, MMMU, and coding tests.
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OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 Goes Big: OpenAI releases GPT-4.5, its most powerful non-reasoning model and maybe its last

OpenAI launched GPT-4.5, which may be its last non-reasoning model.
Bar chart of 2024 vs. 2025 capital expenditures for Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta, showing projected increases.
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Big AI Spending Continues to Rise: Tech giants increase cloud spending to meet growing infrastructure demands

Top AI companies announced plans to dramatically ramp up their spending on AI infrastructure.
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World Powers Move to Lighten AI Regulation: Global AI summit reveals deep divisions on regulation and governance

The latest international AI summit exposed deep divisions between major world powers regarding AI regulations.
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Musk Complicates OpenAI’s Plan: Elon Musk’s $97.4B bid for OpenAI rejected, fueling AI power struggle

Elon Musk and a group of investors made an unsolicited bid to buy the assets of the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating the AI powerhouse’s future plans.
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