DHS signed its DeepSeek ban 88 days before publishing the notice
The Department of Homeland Security order stripping DeepSeek out of federal civilian agencies reached the Federal Register on October 20.
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Disney budgets $180M for Character.AI staff, nine times its $20M bid
Disney agreed a $20M opening bid for Character.AI technology. The same Chapter 11 filings budget about $180M over three years for the 66 staff it had already made offers to.
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Trump renames AI but his order keeps the 2021 legal definition
Executive Order 14434 renames artificial intelligence Super Intelligence across the executive branch, then defines the new term as the artificial intelligence Congress already defined in 2021. A real federal definition is due 28 November.
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AI in content creation: 37% faster drafts, 68% shipped unedited
AI in content creation cut drafting time 37% in an MIT trial, but 68% of writers shipped the raw output unedited. Here is what editors still catch.
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EliseAI raises $350M at $4B, 1.8x its Series E mark, not double
EliseAI said on 29 September that it had raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation, and TechCrunch’s headline called
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Meta puts GEM training efficiency at 20-25%, its paper says 37%
Meta says GEM trains at 20-25% model FLOPs utilization end to end. The Kunlun paper it links measures 37% on a single NVIDIA B200, a chip the blog never names.
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Nvidia bills Nemotron Bolt #1 on PinchBench, its card scores it #2
Nvidia’s launch post for Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B calls it “the #1 open model in its class on PinchBench, and
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Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors but never priced the Mythos work
Bank of America’s “couple hundred million dollars plus” of third quarter remediation is a combined AML and Mythos line, and the transcript never splits it.
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Nvidia names 8 European city AI projects, one with a 10% saving
NVIDIA says European cities are deploying AI agents to run urban operations, but its own post of 13 October names
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Google cut a thought penalty from Gemini 4 Argon’s early training
Google removed an auxiliary reward that was scoring Gemini 4 Argon chain-of-thought text, and its full safety report says monitorability is now harder than for past models.
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Microsoft projects Maia 300 at 40% over GPUs, below Maia 200’s 1.7x
Microsoft expects its next AI accelerator, Maia 300, to deliver 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems. In
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White Circle breaks Nano Banana 2.1 in 20.7% of nudity attacks
White Circle’s own research page carries two numbers that the coverage of its nudity jailbreak study left out. Running its
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