Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s AI models, says ‘leftwing nut jobs’ made ‘disastrous mistake’

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President Trump said Friday that he has directed all federal agencies to “immediately cease” working with Anthropic, blasting the AI company’s leadership as “leftwing nut jobs.” The scathing announcement from Trump brought an abrupt end to a major dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon, which had given the company until 5:01 p.m. Eastern Time Friday […]


OpenAI Unveils New ‘Reasoning’ Models o3 and o4-mini

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In September, OpenAI introduced A.I. technology that could “reason” through tasks involving math, coding and science. Now, this technology can tackle similar tasks that involve images, including sketches, posters, diagrams and graphs. On Wednesday, the company unveiled two new versions of its reasoning technology called OpenAI o3 and OpenAI o4-mini. Each can handle tasks that […]


Apple unveils MacBook Air models with $100 price cut despite tariffs

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Apple’s M4 MacBook Air in a marketing photograph. Apple Apple on Wednesday announced new MacBook Air models that update the company’s bestselling laptop with a faster M4 chip and an upgraded videoconferencing camera. The computers also got a $100 price cut in the U.S., despite tariffs by President Donald Trump that took effect on Tuesday […]


Alibaba (BABA) cloud unit slashes prices on AI models by up to 85%

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The World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in July 2023. Aly Song | Reuters Alibaba is cutting prices on its large language models by up to 85%, the Chinese tech giant announced Tuesday. The Hangzhou-based e-commerce firm’s cloud computing division, Alibaba Cloud, said in a WeChat post that it’s offering the price cuts on its […]


Chinese AI models are popular globally and are beating U.S. rivals in some areas

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China’s attempts to dominate the world of artificial intelligence could be paying off, with industry insiders and technology analysts telling CNBC that Chinese AI models are already hugely popular and are keeping pace with — and even surpassing — those from the U.S. in terms of performance. AI has become the latest battleground between the […]


Google releases the first of its Gemini 2.0 AI models

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Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Google released the first version of its Gemini 2.0 family of artificial intelligence models on Wednesday. Gemini 2.0 Flash, as the model is called, is available in a chat version for users globally while an experimental multimodal version of the model, with text-to-speech and image generation features, is […]