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Stargate's $500 billion AI infrastructure project reportedly stalls over unresolved disputes between OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank

The Stargate project, a $500 billion AI data center initiative announced by Trump and backed by OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank, is stalling more than a year after its unveiling. According to The ...
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Hollywood's MPA calls Bytedance's Seedance 2.0 a machine built for "systemic infringement"

Update from February 22, 2026: Bytedance's promises (see below) apparently aren't cutting it for Hollywood. The Motion Picture Association has sent the company a cease-and-desist letter over Seedance ...
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Google wants to provide free Gemini AI training to all 6 million U.S. educators

Google for Education and the educational organization ISTE+ASCD are launching a joint initiative to provide free AI training to all six million teachers in the US. Google says it's the largest program ...
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Anthropic's new AI security tool sends cybersecurity stocks tumbling

Anthropic has launched Claude Code Security, a new tool that detects security vulnerabilities in code that traditional rule-based scanners typically miss. Rather than matching known patterns, the tool ...
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Context files for coding agents often don't help - and may even hurt performance

Context files are supposed to make coding agents more productive. New research shows that only works under very specific conditions. A recent study from ETH Zurich researchers paints a much more ...
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Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises one billion dollars for "spatial intelligence"

World Labs, the AI startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has raised one billion dollars in a new funding round. Backers include Autodesk, Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and AMD, according to a blog ...
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Anthropic raises $30 billion, pushing valuation to $380 billion

Anthropic has closed a $30 billion Series G funding round, bringing the AI company's post-money valuation to $380 billion. The round was led by GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, and U.S.
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Google and OpenAI complain about distillation attacks that clone their AI models on the cheap

Google and OpenAI are complaining about data theft—yes, you read that right. According to Google, Gemini was hit with a massive cloning attempt through distillation, with a single campaign firing over ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Claude can now jump between Excel and PowerPoint on its own Anthropic now lets Claude switch independently between Excel and PowerPoint - for example, running an analysis and ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Read full article about: Nvidia reportedly set to invest $30 billion in OpenAI Nvidia is close to investing $30 billion in OpenAI, Reuters reports, citing a person familiar with the matter. The ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Anthropic accuses Deepseek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of stealing Claude's AI data through 16 million queries Anthropic says it has caught Chinese AI labs Deepseek, Moonshot, and ...
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AI researcher Andrej Karpathy says he's "bearish on reinforcement learning" for LLM training

Andrej Karpathy, a former Tesla and OpenAI researcher, is part of a growing movement in the AI community calling for a new approach to building large language models (LLMs) and AI systems. On X, ...