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Project Gumdrop: OpenAI's first AI gadget could send handwritten notes to ChatGPT

OpenAI has reportedly shifted production of its first AI hardware device from Luxshare to Foxconn. The company wants to avoid manufacturing in China, according to Taiwanese business newspaper Economic ...
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ByteDance's StoryMem gives AI video models a memory so characters stop shapeshifting between scenes

Researchers from ByteDance and Nanyang Technological University have developed StoryMem, a system designed to maintain visual consistency in AI-generated videos across multiple scenes. The system ...
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Security researchers catch "privacy" browser extensions siphoning AI chats and selling them via a data broker

The extensions intercept conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, and Meta AI. Even when the VPN is switched off, data collection continues in the background.
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LLMs could serve as world models for training AI agents, study finds

An international team of researchers has tested whether large language models can serve as world models: internal simulators that predict outcomes when an AI agent takes a specific action. After ...
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Resemble AI drops Chatterbox Turbo, an open-source text-to-speech model that clones voices in five seconds

AI startup Resemble AI is taking on Elevenlabs with "Chatterbox Turbo," an open text-to-speech model that can clone voices from just five seconds of audio. The company claims its new model beats both ...
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AI fraud forces world's largest accounting body to end online exams

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the world's largest accountancy organization, will stop offering online exams starting March 2026. The decision comes as AI-powered cheating ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Baidu's in-house chip unit Kunlunxin joins wave of Chinese AI firms heading for Hong Kong IPO Baidu's AI chip division, Kunlunxin, has confidentially filed for an IPO in Hong ...
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The ARC benchmark's fall marks another casualty of relentless AI optimization

Update from December 25, 2025: Poetiq has raised the bar even higher on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark. The AI startup achieved a 75 percent accuracy rate on the public test dataset using OpenAI's GPT-5.2 ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Read full article about: OpenAI releases new models for its Realtime API OpenAI has updated its Realtime API with three new model snapshots designed to improve transcription, speech synthesis, and ...
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ChatGPT has higher emotional awareness than humans, study finds

Psychologists tested ChatGPT for emotional awareness in a standardized test. The machine performed significantly better than humans. The test required participants to describe emotions in fictional ...
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Meta Neuroscientist King: "Some of the concepts like reasoning may need to be re-evaluated"

The neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King leads the Brain & AI team in Meta’s AI division. In an interview with The Decoder, he discusses the connection between AI and neuroscience, the challenges of ...
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Google's updated Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio handles complex voice tasks better

Google has released an update for Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio that makes voice assistants more capable. The model now handles complex workflows better, follows user instructions more precisely, and ...