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DeepSeek launches V4 Pro at prices up to 14 times higher than V4 Flash

BEIJING, Aug 13 (Reuters) – Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek formally released its V4 Pro model on Thursday, pricing it several times higher than its V4 Flash model as it seeks to turn stronger benchmark performance into a premium flagship offering. DeepSeek’s V4-Pro-0813 is ‌priced at $1.32 per million input tokens and $3.96 per million […]

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Nvidia scales back funding guarantee for Ohio OpenAI data center, WSJ reports

Aug 14 (Reuters) – Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab has revised its plans to support a proposed OpenAI data center project in Ohio and is now expected to initially guarantee less ‌than $120 billion, down from the $250 billion previously discussed, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The ​Journal said Nvidia and

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OpenAI flags possible critical cybersecurity risk in upcoming model, tightens controls

Aug 7 (Reuters) – OpenAI said on Friday it cannot rule out that its upcoming AI model, Astra, has “critical” cybersecurity capabilities, prompting the startup to pause some internal development and trigger safety protocols. Under OpenAI’s ‌safety guidelines, a model reaches the “critical” threshold if it can autonomously identify and exploit severe, real-world software vulnerabilities, known

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Brazil tightens crypto transfers to curb fraud

SAO PAULO, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Brazil’s central bank said on Friday that some cryptocurrency transfers will ‌have to be delayed by up to 24 hours under new anti-fraud rules.  The central bank said the ​move reflects the growing use ⁠of virtual assets, including ​stablecoins, to quickly move money obtained ​through financial scams. The rule, which takes

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EU in talks with OpenAI, Anthropic after rogue AI agent hacks

BRUSSELS, July 31 (Reuters) – The European Commission is in talks with OpenAI and Anthropic over recent hacking incidents involving their AI models, Commission officials said on Friday, ‌as they touted landmark EU rules requiring strict monitoring of high-risk systems. Europe’s AI Act, which kicks in on August 2, is the first legislation in the world to

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Alphabet rolls back AI image generation in Google Earth over policy violations

July 31 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google said on Friday it was rolling back an AI image-generation feature it had introduced in Google Earth just a day ago, after users shared ‌images that appeared to violate the company’s policies. The feature, powered by Google’s Nano Banana 2 AI model, had allowed users to generate photorealistic

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Anthropic rolls out Opus 5 AI model in efficiency upgrade

SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 (Reuters) – Anthropic on Friday launched Opus 5, its latest AI model that the startup says nears the capabilities of its more powerful cousin Fable 5 at half the price. The San Francisco-based lab said the new Claude AI model ⁠was well suited for daily office and computer programming tasks. In an interview

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Aerospace fights for young recruits as AI drains talent pool

FARNBOROUGH, England, July 24 (Reuters) – For Hassan Butt, a 17-year-old British student volunteering at the Farnborough airshow this week, there was nothing cooler than watching the planes and thinking about the physics that kept them airborne.   “Everyone when they’re kids, they ‌look up, they see the planes flying and they think, damn…” he

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SpaceX IPO earns millions for US Small Business Administration head Kelly Loeffler

WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) – U.S. Small Business Administration head Kelly Loeffler multiplied the value of her investment in Elon Musk’s SpaceX after she was nominated for the ‌job, earning millions of dollars from the company’s record initial public offering, a Reuters review of her financial disclosures showed.   Loeffler invested between $1 million and

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Musk’s SpaceX in talks to supply the Pentagon with computing power, WSJ reports

July 17 (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX (SPCX.O), opens new tab is in talks to provide the U.S. Department of Defense with access to data center ‌capacity worth billions of dollars to run AI models, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Such an agreement would extend the Pentagon’s existing relationship with

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