Twitch content has been training Amazon's AI for years
Twitch says streamer content may be used to improve Amazon's generative AI models. The setting is on by default, and its product chief gave a blunt reason why.
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Anthropic set agents loose on one task and got a turf war
Anthropic researchers found that AI agents given the same task can clash, collude and coordinate in ways nobody programmed into any of them individually.
Research
OpenAI turns speed into a product: Ultrafast hits 750 tokens a second
OpenAI has previewed Ultrafast, a mode that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14x faster on Cerebras hardware, turning inference speed into a separate pricing tier.
Products
Anthropic opens a watermark detection API for Claude text
Anthropic will offer a watermark detection API letting third parties check whether text was written by Claude. The method builds on Google's SynthID.
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Nvidia's $500B plan: finding value in ageing GPUs
Nvidia has a plan to keep its GPUs from losing value. The goal is to convince a new class of financiers to keep lending against AI buildouts.
Companies
Companies are scrambling to cut their AI bills, and PDFs are the culprit
A leaked Accenture meeting recording shows token consumption is driven by non-engineers, not engineers. One of the biggest cost items is converting PDFs into text.
Companies
Google Ads and Analytics Get New Gemini-Powered AI Tools
Google is adding Gemini-based AI summary and reporting tools to its Ads and Analytics platforms. The new tools aim to speed up performance insights and enable benchmarking.
Products
Apple is in talks to pay publishers to supply Siri with news
Apple is reportedly talking to publishers about paying for current news to feed Siri. According to the WSJ, the company has considered a nine-figure budget.
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Cognition moves from a $26B to a $40B valuation in months
AI coding startup Cognition is reportedly in talks for a new round at a $40 billion valuation, only months after its previous raise.
Companies
Models are most confident when they are wrong, an eval harness finds
An eval harness surfaced a pattern qualitative review had missed: AI models display their highest confidence precisely when their answers are wrong.
Research
A plaintiff hid invisible AI instructions in court filings and was caught
A self-represented plaintiff in Connecticut hid invisible AI instructions in his filings as 3-point white text on white. The judge noticed the unusual whitespace.
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If gas prices triple, the data centre plans get shaken
Energy research firm Noreva forecasts that natural gas prices could triple in parts of the US. Four large companies are planning gigawatt-scale gas plants.
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