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AI-selected portfolios might perform well in a growing market, but experts warn of downturn risks.

OpenAI is testing a new feature called Pulse that aims to make ChatGPT a more proactive assistant. Instead of waiting for questions, ChatGPT now pulls in information on its own and delivers daily updates. The article OpenAI's new Pulse feature…

A new study finds over half the drugs approved this century cite government-funded research in their patents.

VaultGemma is a 1B-parameter Gemma 2-based LLM that Google trained from scratch using differential privacy (DP) with the aim of preventing the model from memorizing and later regurgitating training data. While still a research model, VaultGemma could enable applications cases…

Tech firms pressed to explain if H-1B workers are paid less than US workers.

Baidu has released PP-OCRv5 on Hugging Face, a new optical character recognition (OCR) model built to outperform large vision-language models (VLMs) in specialized text recognition tasks. Unlike general-purpose architectures such as Gemini 2.5 Pro, Qwen2.5-VL, or GPT-4o, which handle OCR…

Meta’s Code World Model (CWM) is designed not just to generate code but to understand how that code runs on a computer. The article Meta's Code "World Model" aims to close the gap between code generation and code understanding appeared…

Two weeks ago, record company Hallwood Media signed a deal with Telisha “Nikki” Jones after negotiations that purportedly included an offer of $3 million, Billboard reported. Jones is a Mississippi-based lyricist behind the R&B artist “Xania Monet” whose most popular…

So, what is big tech’s influence on ai development? It is both transformative and concerning.

OpenAI’s latest personalization play for ChatGPT: You can now allow the chatbot to learn about you via your transcripts and phone activity (think: connected apps like your calendar, email, and Google Contacts), and based on that data, it’ll research things…