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SpaceX closes $40 billion debt deal for AI chips, Elon Musk says
Elon Musk says SpaceX has secured $40 billion in debt financing to buy chips for its AI systems. He said the money is expected to arrive in the first half of 2027.
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OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
OpenAI and Anthropic lowered prices for several AI models by as much as 80% over a few months. The article argues that competition from each other and cheaper open-weight models is pushing prices down, while lower costs for reusing earlier conversations add to the savings.
03News
Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models
Cerebras explained how it runs trillion-parameter AI models by spreading their layers across its wafer-scale chips. Using a three-trillion-parameter model as an example, the company calculated that it would need 59 chips working together.
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04News
Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’
Grok has released seven minutes of its AI-made version of The Odyssey, three months after Elon Musk announced plans for a feature film. Made with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker, the footage is now presented as the first episode of a series.
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AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework
UC Berkeley math professor Richard Borcherds stopped grading homework for correct answers after seeing students use AI to earn high scores. He now gives credit for submitting work, while the university lets instructors set their own classroom AI rules.
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OpenMobile-2 proves open-source smartphone agents can rival proprietary models
Researchers released OpenMobile-2, an open-source AI agent trained to use smartphone apps in a practice environment covering more than 110 apps. Its larger model earned the highest score among open models on a real-Android test, while training across more kinds of apps improved results on unfamiliar ones.
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Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI
Nikon stripped Dr. Ning Xu of the top prize in its microscope video contest after scientists flagged unusual features and signs of AI use in his entry. Xu said he used AI only to clarify images, not to create the video, but Nikon found that he had broken the rules.
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Baba, which develops AI tools to help Medicare and Medicaid patients connect to care teams and handle advocacy tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by FirstMark
Baba raised $40 million in a Series A round led by FirstMark Capital to expand its services for Medicare and Medicaid patients. The company connects patients with care teams and is developing AI tools to help with tasks such as billing and insurance calls.
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Anthropic says one AI agent beats many subagents now that models can handle complexity alone
Anthropic says one AI agent that gathers information as needed often works better than several specialized agents because newer models can handle complex tasks themselves. The company says this approach can reduce costs and delays, and has released a kit to help teams test it.
10News
A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
In a test of 200 biopsied skin lesions, a fine-tuned CNN correctly identified 62% of diagnoses, compared with about 42% for each of two leading language models. It identified more melanomas than either language model, but still missed 17 of 30.
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