OpenAI GPT-5: great taste, less filling, now with 30% less bias

Thomas Claburn / theregister - AI model maker touts effort to depoliticize its product OpenAI says GPT-5 has 30 percent less political bias than its prior AI models.…

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Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Jason Koebler / 404media - Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

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OpenAI’s Sora Hits 1 Million Downloads in Under 5 Days, Faster Than ChatGPT

John Quintet / iphoneincanada - OpenAI’s new video-generation app Sora has taken off in record time, surpassing 1 million downloads in less than five days, according to Bill Peebles, head of Sora at OpenAI. Peebles said on Wednesday that the milestone came “even faster than ChatGPT did …

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Anthropic finds 250 poisoned documents are enough to backdoor large language models

Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Anthropic, working with the UK’s AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, has discovered that as few as 250 poisoned documents are enough to insert a backdoor into large language models - regardless of model size.The article Anthropic finds 25…

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Former UK PM Rishi Sunak Joins Microsoft and AI Firm Anthropic as Senior Adviser

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak accepts senior advisory roles at Microsoft and AI firm Anthropic, facing scrutiny over potential conflicts of interest.The post Former UK PM Rishi Sunak Joins Microsoft and AI Firm Anthropic as Senior Adviser appeared …

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Microsoft updates Copilot on Windows with Google and Office integrations

Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - Microsoft’s development of Copilot on Windows 11 continues, and the company has just released significant updates to Insiders which are likely to win it more fans. New connection cap abilities mean that it is possible to use Copilot in conjunction with va…

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Reflection AI secures $2B funding for its frontier AI lab

Reflection AI has closed a high-profile funding round, raising $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation. Backed by Nvidia and other investors, the startup is set to expand its open-source, frontier AI infrastructure and safety research. This ambitious injection of cash underscores the competitive race to dominate the AI landscape.

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OpenAI urges EU to rein in tech giants’ anti-competitive practices

OpenAI has formally raised concerns with EU regulators, warning that established firms like Apple, Microsoft, and Google are stifling competition in the AI space. The company is calling on the EU to implement measures that foster a more level playing field, underscoring its struggle to compete against entrenched tech behemoths.

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AWS Debuts Quick Suite as a Secure, Lower-Cost Rival to Copilot and Gemini Enterprise

PYMNTS / pymnts - Amazon Web Services on Thursday (Oct. 9) launched Quick Suite, a new agentic AI platform designed to act as a virtual teammate for employees. Quick Suite as an enterprise-grade system that helps workers find information, analyze data, and automate tasks a…

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It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic

Brandon Vigliarolo / theregister - Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on. …

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OpenAI’s Sora has already hit more than 1 million downloads

Emma Roth / theverge - OpenAI’s social AI video-generating app, Sora, has reached over 1 million downloads in fewer than five days since its launch. That’s according to Sora head Bill Peebles, who said on Wednesday that Sora racked up downloads faster than ChatGPT did at launch…

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Hyped AI business automation startup n8n raises $180M, valuing it at $2.5BN

John Reynolds / tech - N8n, the Berlin-based hyped AI startup which helps businesses automate tasks, has confirmed that it has raised $180m, valuing it at $2.5bn.Leading the Series C funding round was US VC firm Accel, with...

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Nvidia CEO surprised by AMD's deal giving OpenAI a 10% stake

techspot - In an interview on CNBC's Squawk Box, Huang called the arrangement "unique and surprising," given AMD's excitement about its upcoming hardware. "I'm surprised they would give away 10 percent of the company before they even built it," he said. "It's clever…

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Bank of England Warns of an AI Bubble Burst

Ece Yildirim / gizmodo - Valuations appear stretched especially for AI companies, the bank said.

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You Can’t Use Copyrighted Characters in OpenAI’s Sora Anymore and People Are Freaking Out

AJ Dellinger / gizmodo - Turns out a lot of people's creativity is limited to what someone else has already made.

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Google’s AI try-on imagines your feet in new shoes

Emma Roth / theverge - Google will now use AI to help you “try on” shoes while sitting at home. Now, when you browse through shoes on Google Shopping, you can hit the “try it on” button on the new heels, sneakers, or sandals you’re looking at to see how they might look on you. …

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OpenAI and Anthropic could use investor funds to cover multi-billion dollar AI lawsuits

Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly considering using investor funds to cover potential multibillion-dollar lawsuits after insurers refused to provide comprehensive coverage for AI-related risks, according to the Financial Times.The article OpenAI and Ant…

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Musk’s xAI raises $20 billion, but won’t call it a raise

Catherine Baab / qz - The raise uses a special-purpose vehicle to keep debt off Musk's balance sheet and hardware in investors’ hands

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