Ai Advancement

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  Opinion | There's A Five-Letter Word Haunting Trump

  Not only has China advanced technologically in key strategic sectors despite sanctions, but it has also gained adherents to its alternative worldview.

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  Amid DeepSeek Buzz, OpenAI Says Chinese Firms Trying To Copy US AI Tech

  ChatGPT creator OpenAI on Wednesday said that Chinese companies are actively attempting to replicate its advanced AI models, prompting increased security measures and closer cooperation with US authorities.

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  AI Generates Fluorescent Protein That Nature Would Need 500 Million Years to Evolve

  A new AI-generated fluorescent protein, esmGFP, has been developed, a process that would have taken nature 500 million years. Scientists used ESM3, an AI model trained on billions of natural protein sequences, to design a functional protein beyond evolutionary constraints. The development is expected to accelerate medical research, drug discovery, ...

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  Hugging Face Is Trying to Build a Fully Open-Source Version of DeepSeek-R1 AI Model

  Hugging Face announced a new initiative on Tuesday to build Open-R1, a fully open reproduction of the DeepSeek-R1 model. The hedge fund-backed Chinese AI firm released the DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model in the public domain last week, sending shockwaves across Silicon Valley and NASDAQ. A big reason was that such an advanced and lar...

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  Google Expands Deep Research AI Agent to Gemini App for Android, Can Act as a Research Assistant

  Google is expanding the Deep Research tool to the Gemini Android app. The first artificial intelligence (AI) agent for Gemini was so far available only on the web version of the platform. The Mountain View-based tech giant released the tool in December 2024, and described it as a research assistant that can create multi-step research plans, run web...

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  DeepSeek Hit by Cyberattack as Users Flock to Chinese AI Startup

  Chinese startup DeepSeek said on Monday it will temporarily limit registrations. The startup earlier was also hit by outages on its website after its AI assistant became the top-rated free application available on Apple's App Store in the United States.

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  US President Donald Trump Revokes Executive Order on Addressing AI Risks

  US President Donald Trump revoked a 2023 executive order signed by Joe Biden that aiming to reduce the risks that AI poses to customers. The order also directed agencies to set standards for that testing and address related chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cybersecurity risks.

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  OpenAI Could Reportedly Launch Advanced AI Agents Soon as CEO Schedules Meeting With US Officials

  OpenAI might be getting close to releasing its first artificial intelligence (AI) agent. Sam Altman, the company CEO, has reportedly scheduled a briefing with US officials on January 30 where he might showcase the capabilities of its AI agents. The AI firm has been rumoured to be working on an AI agent called the Operator for quite some time now, a...

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  Up Network, DreamSmart Launch Web3 Smart Glasses with Google Gemini

  Up Network and DreamSmart have designed, what they claim, is the first smart glasses to bring AI and Web3 features together. The eyewear is equipped with Google Gemini to provide contextual intelligence around varied subjects in real time.

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  AI Enhances Northern Lights Classification and Geomagnetic Storm Forecasting

  A breakthrough in auroral research, powered by artificial intelligence, has allowed scientists to classify over 700 million auroral images. This effort, using NASA's THEMIS dataset, will significantly enhance the prediction of geomagnetic storms, which can disrupt Earth's communication and security systems. Led by the University of New Hampshire, t...

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  Nvidia Cosmos AI Platform to Train and Develop Autonomous Vehicles and Robots Launched at CES 2025

  Nvidia launched Cosmos, a new artificial intelligence platform that contains multiple generative world foundation models (WFMs), on Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025. The platform does not only contain these AI models but also include advanced tokenisers, accelerated video processing pipeline, and guardrails that enable the platfor...

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  Microsoft Announces AI-Focused Strategic Partnerships With Government, Major Enterprises

  Microsoft announced its partnerships with the government and industry leaders over artificial intelligence (AI) on Wednesday. The announcement was made by company CEO Satya Nadella in New Delhi on day two of Its AI Tour. On Tuesday, Nadella announced the tech giant’s intentions to invest $3 billion (roughly Rs. 25,753 crores) in the country to de...

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  eBay and Beazley Reportedly Being Targeted by Advanced AI-Generated Phishing Scams

  eBay, the ecommerce giant, and several other companies are reportedly witnessing an increased volume of personalised phishing attacks aimed towards high-level employees. As per the report, these phishing scams are being carried out using artificial intelligence (AI) systems to make them appear human-like and avoid the telltale signs of a typical sc...

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  Samsung Galaxy S25 Series to Reportedly Offer Gemini Advanced Subscriptions for Free

  Samsung Galaxy S25 series is rumoured to be launched on January 22, 2025, and it could reportedly offer free Gemini Advanced subscriptions to make the devices more lucrative. As per the report, Google might have partnered with the South Korean tech giant to bundle different durations of trial subscriptions of its artificial intelligence (AI) produc...

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  Al Will Bring Even Faster Change To Politics, Health Care, Economy

  Advances in AI, including artificial general intelligence, are very likely to continue - but it's unclear how much of a difference they'll make.