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Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
Meta told Dylan Byers, of Puck News, that it had nixed the feature after backlash from its user base.
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Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAi's senior leadership, including a long-time former employee.
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Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI
Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the same story play out again and again: companies start […]
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Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue
Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the same story play out again and again: companies start […]
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SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs
The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.
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Disable auto-play and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta
Digital Services Act may force Meta to make big changes on its platforms.
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The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts The AI firm Anthropic has got the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they…
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A New Experiential Gallery Just Might Change Your Mind About AI Art
Billed as the “world’s first museum of AI arts,” Dataland uses wearables and troves of material from the Amazon to merge nature, biometrics, and art.
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Sperm donors need limits, says a European fertility group
Ties van der Meer doesn’t know how many siblings he has. The 47-year-old was conceived at a private fertility clinic in the Netherlands using sperm provided by an anonymous donor. After the Netherlands banned anonymous donation in 2004, the doctor who ran the clinic destroyed records that might have identified those donors, he says. He…
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How to shrink the token budget without shrinking the team
Jensen Huang has a test for whether an engineer is worth keeping, and it comes with a token budget attached. Speaking on the All-In Podcast at the close of GTC 2026, the Nvidia chief executive said that if a $500,000 engineer’s annual AI token consumption came in under half their salary, “I am going to […] The post How to shrink the token budget without shrinking the team appeared first on AI News.
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Robot Dogs, Teslas, and Rescue Helicopters: The UN AI Summit Was a Lot
Amid live coding sessions and Silicon Valley optimism, the UN’s AI for Good summit wrestled with an increasingly urgent question: Can global governance catch up before the technology races beyond its control?
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OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter
OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.
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OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6
OpenAI's latest family of models promises improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.
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OpenAI’s CEO of AGI Deployment, Fidji Simo, Is Stepping Down
The move comes after Simo took significant medical leave. She will stay on as a part-time adviser.
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Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role
OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes a possible IPO and races to catch Anthropic in the enterprise market.
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How to stop Meta’s AI image generator from using your Instagram photos
Meta's new AI image generator is using your public Instagram photos unless you opt out. Here's how to do that.
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New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial
News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their lawsuit with a new motion for sanctions.
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Humanoid robots controlled by surgeons did world-first operation on live pigs
Preclinical trial is testing the feasibility of humanoid robots in surgery.
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OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered browser after less than a year. But it's moving some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension.
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Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?
The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.