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Kimi: Threat or menace?

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Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all

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Kimi: Threat or menace?

Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, generating another wave of discourse about China and open source AI.
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Apple’s lawsuit couldn’t come at a worse time for OpenAI

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Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them

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Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal

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The risk of weather data sabotage is rising

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The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a cov…

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Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?

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The Download: OpenAI unveils GPT-Red and heat pumps rise in the US

This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.
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