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OpenAI is steering ChatGPT users toward more paid usage

OpenAI is now capping the number of paid ChatGPT accounts per device and payment card. Users who hit the limit can't start new subscriptions, and affected accounts can't be used o…

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Google wants video AI to understand what people need as they work

A Google-led research team built StreamVibe, a video agent designed to watch people cook or assemble furniture and speak up only when help is needed. A benchmark shows that none o…

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OpenAI's upcoming chat-and-work merger in ChatGPT signals the end of all-you-can-prompt pricing

OpenAI combines the Chat and Work modes into a single interface. Starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share a common, token-based quota for ChatGPT and Codex. …

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Nace AI Open-Sources Drex Max v1: A 27B Decision Model That Runs Locally on Apple Silicon

Nace AI open-sources Drex Max v1, a 27B multimodal decision model scoring 67.52 that runs on Apple Silicon. The post Nace AI Open-Sources Drex Max v1: A 27B Decision Model That Ru…

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DeepSeek Open-Sources dsh-superagent, a Router-Worker Coding Agent

DeepSeek released dsh-superagent, an MIT-licensed research prototype that turns GitHub and Feishu requests into parallel worker sessions. In DeepSeek’s own simulation, p95 task co…

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Opinion: U of T’s staff AI policy needs an update - thevarsity.ca

Opinion: U of T’s staff AI policy needs an update  thevarsity.ca

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Dick Spotswood: Congressional candidates weigh in on AI regulation - Marin Independent Journal

Dick Spotswood: Congressional candidates weigh in on AI regulation  Marin Independent Journal

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Anthropic's watermark rollout leaves a loophole on two older Claude models

Anthropic is expanding its text watermark to four more Claude models to meet the EU AI Act's December deadline. On the older models Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, developers can …

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OpenAI plans to train models on Daybreak Blue cybersecurity session data that was previously off-limits

Starting November 29, OpenAI will use data from Daybreak Blue sessions to train its models, even when users have turned off training. After backlash, a follow-up email promised a …

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Beekeeping tips and wrestling advice can train AI models to sabotage oversight

Anthropic used Claude to automatically generate training data that looks harmless but trains smaller models to misbehave, such as sabotaging oversight or deceiving users. Hidden w…

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South Africans Won’t See Redrafted AI Policy Before March 2027, Official Says - iAfrica.com

South Africans Won’t See Redrafted AI Policy Before March 2027, Official Says  iAfrica.com

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Microsoft offers a quarter of its workforce voluntary severance while shielding AI-critical teams

Microsoft is offering voluntary severance packages to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, in the second such program this year. The company's headcount has…

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Meet Factory Droid 1.0: A Model-Independent Coding Agent Harness Built on Script Mode

Factory released Droid 1.0, a model-independent coding agent harness that makes programmatic tool calling the default. On Factory’s own Terminal-Bench 4 runs, Droid scores 65.2% w…

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Google Deepmind creates a global map of forests with satellite data and AI

Google Deepmind and the World Resources Institute have released ForTy, a global map that classifies forests and other land into six categories, including primary forest, plantatio…

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Vercel Labs Open-Sources agent-desktop for Agent Computer Use

Vercel Labs released agent-desktop, an Apache-2.0 Rust CLI that gives any AI agent computer use on macOS, Windows and Linux by reading OS accessibility trees and acting on stable …

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OpenAI raises just $11 billion of its $30 billion target as big investors lose their AI appetite

OpenAI raised only about $11 billion in its latest funding round, less than half of the $30 billion it was targeting. At $1.25 trillion, the valuation falls short of expectations,…

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Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia

When investors get nervous about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker that sells the chips offer to cosign the loan.

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The dark side of AI regulation is unrestrained government control - The Washington Post

The dark side of AI regulation is unrestrained government control  The Washington Post

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Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down

As an increasing number of AI assistants flood the market, the founder of Ollie, an assistant that respected its users' privacy, says it will be shutting down in a week.

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Howard County Schools Consider New Student AI Policy - Hoodline

Howard County Schools Consider New Student AI Policy  Hoodline

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This Week at FDA: New ConOps for drug inspections, AI policy proposal, and more - RAPS

This Week at FDA: New ConOps for drug inspections, AI policy proposal, and more  RAPS

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Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom

Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are raising questions about the sustainability of the A…

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BOEs meet; OCS addresses AI policy - The Andalusia Star-News

BOEs meet; OCS addresses AI policy  The Andalusia Star-News

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BOEs meet; OCS addresses AI policy - The Andalusia Star-News

BOEs meet; OCS addresses AI policy  The Andalusia Star-News