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Meta Suspends Instagram Feature Using Other Users' Photos for AI Generation

Meta has disabled a feature within its Muse Image tool that allowed users to generate AI content using other Instagram profiles' photos. The decision follows a backlash from public figures and the SAG…

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OpenSpec 1.6 Enhances Spec-Driven Development

OpenSpec 1.6 introduces the /opsx:update command, allowing developers to modify specifications before implementation without starting over. The tool now supports the Oh My Pi CLI agent and ByteDance's…

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Mechanistic Interpretability Researchers Apply Causality Theory to LLMs

Researchers are using causal inference methods to understand how large language models reason internally. This approach bridges mechanistic interpretability and causality theory, offering new techniqu…

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Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s No. 2 role

Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s second-in-command and CEO of Applications, is stepping down from her full-time position. She will transition to a part-time advisory role after her medical leave extended longer t…

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New York Times Accuses OpenAI of Hiding Evidence in Copyright Suit

The New York Times and The Daily News have filed a motion for sanctions against OpenAI. They allege the AI firm hid existing internal tools, datasets, and a 78-million-conversation log used to track c…

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Build Your Own Healthcare AI Assistant with MedGemma, Ollama, and Open WebUI

This tutorial shows how to set up a fully local healthcare AI assistant using MedGemma, Ollama and Open WebUI. It focuses on keeping sensitive patient data on-premises to satisfy privacy regulations a…

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Introducing GPT-Live

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Integrating AI Agents into .NET Development Workflows

Meta Suspends Instagram Feature Using Other Users' Photos for AI Generation

OpenSpec 1.6 Enhances Spec-Driven Development

Mechanistic Interpretability Researchers Apply Causality Theory to LLMs

Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s No. 2 role

New York Times Accuses OpenAI of Hiding Evidence in Copyright Suit

Build Your Own Healthcare AI Assistant with MedGemma, Ollama, and Open WebUI

Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia

Native-speed vLLM transformers modeling backend

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft

Ploy Migrates AI Agent to GPT-5.6 Sol

Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k

Local Image to 3D on Apple Silicon with MLX

China's DeepSeek developing its own AI chip, sources say

OpenAI's Head of Safety Is Leaving the Company

Hugging Face's CEO on why companies are done renting their AI

How did the government decide OpenAI's frontier model was safe to release?

Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?

OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser plans continue

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 Family of Models Focused on Coding and Security

How to Build an MCP Server with FastMCP for Your Local AI Agent

Giant Swarm Launches On-Premises AI Agent Platform for Kubernetes

AI Paper Review: Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models

SpaceXAI Unveils Grok 4.5 AI Model – EU Users Must Wait

Symlink Vulnerability in Six Coding Agents Allows Arbitrary File Access

Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft by former employees

GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition

Introducing GPT-Live

China's MiniMax Plans 2.7-Trillion Parameter Model