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📝 olmOCR v0.2.1 has arrived with new models! Our open‑source OCR engine now reads tougher docs with greater precision—and it’s still 100 % open. 👇

01.08.2025 16:02 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 3

✨some personal news ✨

31.07.2025 20:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today we’re releasing a prototype of Genesys, an autonomous multi-agent LLM discovery system that aims to discover new types of language model architectures. We found Genesys can discover novel architectures competitive with the industry-standard transformer. 🧵

27.06.2025 19:45 — 👍 26    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 3
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Wikipedia pauses AI-generated summaries pilot after editors protest Editors almost immediately criticized the pilot, raising concerns that it could damage Wikipedia's credibility.
11.06.2025 19:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Disney and Universal sue Midjourney, alleging AI-related copyright infringement The studios are seeking monetary damages, a jury trial, and an order barring Midjourney from further copyright infringement.
11.06.2025 18:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OpenAI releases o3-pro, a souped-up version of its o3 AI reasoning model OpenAI has launched o3-pro, an AI model that the company claims is its most capable yet.
10.06.2025 21:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Atlassian rival Linear raises $82M at $1.25B valuation Linear, an enterprise software maker that competes with many of Atlassian's products, announced that it raised $82 million in a Series C funding round led by Accel.
10.06.2025 19:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Apple’s upgraded AI models underwhelm on performance Apple has announced updates to the AI models that power its suite of Apple Intelligence features across iOS, macOS, and more. But according to the company's own benchmarks, the models underperform older models from rival tech firms including OpenAI.
10.06.2025 17:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mistral releases a pair of AI reasoning models Mistral released Magistral, its first family of reasoning models. Like other reasoning models — e.g. OpenAI's o3 and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro — Magistral works through problems step-by-step for improved consistency and reliability across topics such as math and physics.
10.06.2025 16:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OpenAI claims to have hit $10B in annual revenue OpenAI says it recently hit $10 billion in annual recurring revenue, up from around $5.5 billion last year.
09.06.2025 21:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Apple brings Apple Intelligence to the iPhone screen Apple said it's bringing Visual Intelligence, its AI-powered image analysis tech, to the iPhone screen in iOS 26.
09.06.2025 19:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Apple lets developers tap into its offline AI models Apple is launching what it calls the Foundation Models framework, which the company says will enable developers to tap into its AI models in an offline, on-device fashion.
09.06.2025 18:15 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Corporate AI adoption may be leveling off, according to Ramp data A healthy chunk of corporate America has eagerly embraced AI, betting that the tech will bring heretofore unrealizable productivity gains. But adoption may be leveling off, according to transaction data from fintech company Ramp.
09.06.2025 18:15 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Anthropic’s AI-generated blog dies an early death Anthropic was experimenting with an AI-generated blog. TechCrunch profiled it. Then, Anthropic shut it down.
09.06.2025 16:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Qualcomm to acquire semiconductor firm Alphawave Semi for $2.4B Qualcomm has acquired Alphawave Semi, a U.K.-based semiconductor company focused on high-speed data center connectivity, for around $2.4 billion.
09.06.2025 15:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OpenAI updates ChatGPT’s voice mode with more natural-sounding speech ChatGPT's natural-sounding voice mode just got a big update, including more natural-sounding synthetic voice options.
09.06.2025 15:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anthropic appoints a national security expert to its governing trust Anthropic's long-term benefit trust is a governance mechanism that Anthropic claims helps it promote safety over profit, and which has the power to elect some of the company's board of directors.
06.06.2025 22:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EleutherAI releases massive AI training dataset of licensed and open domain text EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it's claiming is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models.
06.06.2025 19:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's with sadness I'm announcing next week will be my last at TechCrunch. I've accepted a comms role — I'll reveal where soon — and will, at least for now, be hanging up my journalism hat. I'd like to thank my colleagues for all their support over the years — it's been a ride.

06.06.2025 18:28 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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OpenAI’s marketing head takes leave to undergo breast cancer treatment OpenAI's head of marketing, Kate Rouch, has announced she's stepping away from her role for three months while she undergoes treatment for invasive breast cancer.
06.06.2025 17:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Google says its updated Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model is better at coding Google on Thursday announced an update to its Gemini 2.5 Pro preview model that the company claims is better at certain programming tasks. The company’s calling it an “updated preview,” building on the upgrade to Gemini 2.5 Pro that Google announced around a month ago. Google says the model will roll out in general availability […]
05.06.2025 18:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anthropic unveils custom AI models for U.S. national security customers Anthropic says that it has released a new set of AI models tailored for U.S. national security customers. The new models, a custom set of “Claude Gov” models, were “built based on direct feedback from our government customers to address real-world operational needs,” writes Anthropic in a blog post. Compared to Anthropic’s consumer- and enterprise-focused […]
05.06.2025 14:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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North America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environment Despite what some experts have characterized as an environment increasingly hostile to AI R&D, North America continues to receive the bulk of AI venture dollars, according to data from investment tracker PitchBook. Between February and May of this year, VCs poured $69.7 billion into North America-based AI and machine learning startups across 1,528 deals. That’s […]
05.06.2025 03:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBook It’s becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. AI dev platform Hugging Face released earlier this week an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on “compatibly licensed,” community-shared datasets, SmolVLA outperforms much larger models for robotics in both virtual and real-world environments, Hugging Face claims. “SmolVLA aims to democratize […]
04.06.2025 21:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mistral releases a vibe coding client, Mistral Code French AI startup Mistral is releasing its own “vibe coding” client, Mistral Code, to compete with incumbents like Windsurf, Anysphere’s Cursor, and GitHub Copilot. Mistral Code, a fork of the open source project Continue, is an AI-powered coding assistant that bundles Mistral’s models, an “in-IDE” assistant, local deployment options, and enterprise tooling into a single […]
04.06.2025 15:42 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Anthropic’s AI is writing its own blog — with human oversight Anthropic has given its AI a blog. A week ago, Anthropic quietly launched Claude Explains, a new page on its website that’s generated mostly by the company’s AI model family, Claude. Populated by posts on technical topics related to various Claude use cases (e.g. “Simplify complex codebases with Claude”), the blog is intended to be […]
03.06.2025 21:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DeepSeek may have used Google’s Gemini to train its latest model Last week, Chinese lab DeepSeek released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model that performs well on a number of math and coding benchmarks. The company didn’t reveal the source of the data it used to train the model, but some AI researchers speculate that at least a portion came from Google’s Gemini […]
03.06.2025 17:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AWS establishes new German corporate presence to advance European sovereign cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, is forming a new parent company and three subsidiaries in Germany as part of a sovereign cloud the company is launching in the European Union. AWS VP Kathrin Renz will serve as managing director of AWS’ German corporate parent, which will also be led by EU-based “government […]
03.06.2025 15:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Salesforce buys Moonhub, a startup building AI tools for hiring Salesforce has quietly snapped up Moonhub, a startup building AI to vet and hire talent. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. In a post on Moonhub’s website on Monday, the company said that its entire Menlo Park, California-based team will be joining Salesforce, an early investor in Moonhub. “As a customer and investor, Salesforce […]
02.06.2025 20:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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IBM acquires data analysis startup Seek AI, opens AI accelerator in NYC IBM on Monday said that it has acquired Seek AI, an AI platform that allows users to ask questions about enterprise data using natural language, for an undisclosed sum. Seek CEO and founder Sarah Nagy said that the startup’s technology will be a key part of Watsonx AI Labs, IBM’s new NYC-based AI accelerator, which […]
02.06.2025 20:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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