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Stargate's $500 billion AI infrastructure project reportedly stalls over unresolved disputes between OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank

The Stargate project, a $500 billion AI data center initiative announced by Trump and backed by OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank, is stalling more than a year after its unveiling. According to The ...
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Google wants to provide free Gemini AI training to all 6 million U.S. educators

Google for Education and the educational organization ISTE+ASCD are launching a joint initiative to provide free AI training to all six million teachers in the US. Google says it's the largest program ...
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Hollywood's MPA calls Bytedance's Seedance 2.0 a machine built for "systemic infringement"

Update from February 22, 2026: Bytedance's promises (see below) apparently aren't cutting it for Hollywood. The Motion Picture Association has sent the company a cease-and-desist letter over Seedance ...
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Anthropic still won't give the Pentagon unrestricted access to its AI models

Anthropic continues to refuse the Pentagon unrestricted access to its AI models, and the standoff is turning into a serious problem. According to Axios, the U.S. Department of Defense is now ...
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A printed sign can hijack a self-driving car and steer it toward pedestrians, study shows

A sign with the right text is enough to make a drone land on an unsafe roof or steer an autonomous vehicle into pedestrians. A self-driving car reads road signs to navigate safely, but that ability ...
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OpenAI opens GPT-5.2 Codex to developers through the Responses API

OpenAI has released GPT-5.2 Codex to developers through the Responses API. The model was previously limited to the Codex environment. According to OpenAI Developers, it excels at complex, tedious ...
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OpenAI launches healthcare product line, signs up major US hospitals

OpenAI has introduced "OpenAI for Healthcare," a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT and its API, with partners including Boston Children's Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and ...
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New Artificial Analysis benchmark shows OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google locked in a three-way tie at the top

Artificial Analysis just released version 4.0 of its Intelligence Index, ranking AI models across multiple benchmarks. OpenAI's GPT-5.2 at its highest reasoning setting takes the top spot, with ...
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"You certainly don't tell a researcher like me what to do" says LeCun as he exits Meta for his own startup

Yann LeCun, Meta's outgoing AI chief scientist, has acknowledged that Llama 4 benchmark results were manipulated. Following the admission, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly lost confidence in those ...
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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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Moonshot AI closes $500 million Series C to fund Kimi-K3 development and expand computing capacity

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, the company behind the Kimi chatbot, has closed a $500 million Series C funding round. The deal values the company at $4.3 billion, according to an exclusive report ...
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Microsoft CEO Nadella tells managers Copilot's Gmail and Outlook integrations ‘don't really work’ and steps in to fix them

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is reportedly slamming the company's AI assistant behind closed doors and stepping in to fix it himself. A few weeks ago, Nadella emailed engineering managers working on ...