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South Koreans now spend more on AI subscriptions than Netflix each month

South Koreans now spend more per month on AI subscriptions than on Netflix. According to Hankyung Aicel, payments for seven AI services, including ChatGPT and Gemini, hit an estimated 80.3 billion won ...
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Elon Musk proposed his children should inherit control of human-like AI, OpenAI claims

Elon Musk's power fantasies were already extreme a decade ago. According to OpenAI, Musk wanted to amass $80 billion during the company's founding phase to build a self-sufficient city on Mars. He ...
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Cloudflare acquires Human Native to build new payment model for AI training data

Cloudflare is acquiring British startup Human Native to create a new payment system for AI training data. The company runs a marketplace for AI training data and converts multimedia content into ...
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OpenAI wants its API format to become the industry standard

OpenAI is pushing "Open Responses," an open interface that works with language models from different providers. The project builds on OpenAI's Responses API and lets developers write code once and run ...
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OpenAI brings back three top researchers from Mira Murati's startup Thinking Machines

The US AI industry continues to deliver drama. OpenAI has rehired three former employees from Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines, including co-founder Barret Zoph, who was recently fired as ...
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China reportedly tightens Nvidia H200 restrictions, limits purchases to special cases

The Chinese government has tightened its stance on Nvidia's H200 chips. According to The Information, officials told some tech companies this week that H200 purchases will only be approved under ...
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OpenAI acquires Torch to build a "medical memory for AI"

The deal includes 60 million upfront and the rest in retention shares, The Information reports. Torch unifies scattered health records into what the founders call a "medical memory for AI", "a context ...
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Security researchers catch "privacy" browser extensions siphoning AI chats and selling them via a data broker

The extensions intercept conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, and Meta AI. Even when the VPN is switched off, data collection continues in the background.
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Resemble AI drops Chatterbox Turbo, an open-source text-to-speech model that clones voices in five seconds

AI startup Resemble AI is taking on Elevenlabs with "Chatterbox Turbo," an open text-to-speech model that can clone voices from just five seconds of audio. The company claims its new model beats both ...
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Alibaba's Qwen releases AI model that splits images into editable layers like Photoshop

Alibaba's AI unit Qwen has released a new image editing model that breaks down photos into separate, editable components. Qwen-Image-Layered splits images into multiple individual layers with ...
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Kling 2.6 adds voice control and motion upgrades as AI video tools race toward realism

Kuaishou has updated its AI video generator Kling 2.6 with native audio features, voice control, and improved motion control. Users can now precisely set spoken content, upload their own voices, and ...
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Runway unveils first "General World Model" alongside major Gen-4.5 upgrades

Runway has upgraded Gen-4.5 and introduced GWM-1, the company's first "General World Model." The recently introduced Gen-4.5 now features native audio generation and audio editing, as well as ...