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This open-source alternative to ChatGPT just got serious

French AI startup Mistral just rolled out a half-dozen new features and a model update (and an entirely new model) in its bid to compete with OpenAI.
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Anthropic Claude: How to use the impressive ChatGPT rival

Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot may not be flashy, but it is one of the most capable models on the market. Here's how to harness it for fun and profit.
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The brain-computer interface revolution is just getting started

Brain-Computer Interfaces fascinate the sci-fi and medical communities in equal measure. Here's how close the transformative technology is to everyday use.
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YouTube’s new AI music remixer could let you swap genres

Select users are currently testing an experimental AI tool that will remix their uploaded music based on their text prompts.
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Bluesky has ‘no intention’ to train generative AI on user content

As users defect from X, rapidly growing social media platform Bluesky pledges to not scrape user data for training AI .
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This massive upgrade to ChatGPT is coming in January — and it’s not GPT-5

OpenAI announced on Wednesday that it plans to release a new AI agent feature that will be able to act on a user's behalf.
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Google Gemini arrives on iPhone as a native app

Google has released a new native Gemini app for iOS that includes Imagen 3 and Gemini Live.
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Perplexity to introduce sneaky ads alongside its AI answers

Perplexity AI will begin experimenting with incorporating ads into its chatbot answers for U.S. users as early as next week.
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Is AI already plateauing? New reporting suggests GPT-5 may be in trouble

OpenAI's Project Orion may or may not arrive this year, but so far, the company's beta testers have been unimpressed with the new model's performance.
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OpenAI’s robotics plans aim to ‘bring AI into the physical world’

OpenAI has made no secret of its hardware ambitions. Those plans came a step closer to fruition on Tuesday with the hiring of Oculus VR's Caitlin Kalinowski.
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Perplexity unveils an AI-powered ‘election information hub’

Perplexity has launched an "information hub" atop its AI chatbot platform that will provide voters with timely (and hopefully accurate) election updates.
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Runway brings precise camera controls to AI videos

AI startup Runway is rolling out new Advanced Camera Controls for its video-generation model, gen-3 Alpha.
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ChatGPT Search is here to battle both Google and Perplexity

OpenAI's new ChatGPT Search feature leans on the internet to provide up-to-date information to your prompts.
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Elon Musk reportedly will blow $10 billion on AI this year

Elon Musk's Tesla and xAI companies are slated to invest $10 billion on AI capacity this year, but that pales in comparison to what their rivals are spending.
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ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode just came to PCs and Macs

ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode feature, which lets you talk to the AI as though it were human, is coming to macOS and Windows desktop apps.
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Your ChatGPT conversation history is now searchable

ChatGPT chat histories are now searchable within the web app so you can quickly find and surface relevant information from previous conversations.
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Google expands AI Overviews to over 100 more countries

Google announced on Monday that it is expanding its AI Overview feature to search result pages in seven languages and more than 100 countries.
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OpenAI could release its next-generation model by December

A report says OpenAI plans to release its next-generation Orion LLM in December, but CEO Sam Altman is already pushing back.
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One of the hottest AI apps just came to the Mac (and it’s not ChatGPT)

Perplexity released a native app for Mac, allowing users to access the answer engine from their desktop rather than a web browser.
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The new web UI for Midjourney.

Midjourney’s AI image editing reimagines your uploaded photos

Midjourney users finally have the ability to edit uploaded images directly, rather than use them as reference for newly generated pictures.
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Google’s AI detection tool is now available for anyone to try

Google's DeepMind division announced Wednesday that is releasing its SynthID AI content authentication system for general public use.
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‘Massive copyright violation’ threatens one of the world’s hottest AI apps

News Corp announced Monday that it is suing AI startup Perplexity over allegations of copyright infringement on a massive scale.
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Anthropic’s Claude can now control computers like people do

Anthropic is rolling out a new-and-improved version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet alongside the debut of 3.5 Haiku and a new Computer Control API
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AI-controlled robots can be jailbroken, and the results could be disastrous

Penn University researchers have developed an algorithm that can jailbreak a number of popular robotics platforms, often with a 100% success rate.
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Perplexity’s two new features take it beyond just a chatbot

Perplexity AI announced a pair of new features, Internal Knowledge Search and Spaces, for its Perplexity Pro and Enterprise Pro subscribers.
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Microsoft Copilot: how to use this powerful AI assistant

Dive in to unlock the full potential of Microsoft's Copilot and transform the way you work.
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Boston Dynamics gave its Atlas robot an AI brain

Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute are combining their expertise in robotics and AI to build a better bipedal bot.
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Google Gemini on smartphone.

What is Gemini Advanced? Here’s how to use Google’s premium AI

Gemini Advanced suite brings AI features to the entire ecosystem of Google apps. Here's how to use it.
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Seven nuclear reactors to power Google’s AI ambitions

Google is joining the nuclear AI race with the purchase of power from seven Small Modular Reactors from Kairos Energy.
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You can now generate AI videos right in Premiere Pro

Premiere Pro and the Adobe Firefly web app are rolling out video generation tools to their users.
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Google AI helped researchers win two Nobel Prizes this week

While AI was helping win multiple Nobel Prizes this week, we saw the release of Google's Imagen 3, Zoom's AI Companion, and Amazon's Shopping Guides.
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TikTok lays off hundreds in favor of AI moderators while Instagram blames humans for its own issues

TikTok developer ByteDance laid off hundreds of human moderators in favor of AI, while Threads blamed its human moderators on a recent string of account lockouts.
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Zoom debuts its new customizable AI Companion 2.0

Zoom unveiled its next-generation AI assistant for Workplace that promises to deliver an AI-first work platform for human connection.
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Amazon debuts AI ‘Shopping Guides’ for more than 100 product types

Amazon debuted its new AI-powered Shopping Guide feature on Wednesday that is designed to help educated online buyers about their potential purchases.
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