Tech & Society
World Powers Move to Lighten AI Regulation: Global AI summit reveals deep divisions on regulation and governance
The latest international AI summit exposed deep divisions between major world powers regarding AI regulations.
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Musk Complicates OpenAI’s Plan: Elon Musk’s $97.4B bid for OpenAI rejected, fueling AI power struggle
Elon Musk and a group of investors made an unsolicited bid to buy the assets of the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating the AI powerhouse’s future plans.
Machine Learning Research
Mobile Apps to Order: Replit’s agent-powered mobile app expands to full app development
Replit, an AI-driven integrated development environment, updated its mobile app to generate further mobile apps to order.
Machine Learning Research
Grok 3 Scales Up: Grok 3, xAI’s new model family, improves on its predecessors, adds reasoning
xAI’s new model family suggests that devoting more computation to training remains a viable path to building more capable AI.
Data Points
Perplexity unveils new Sonar model with Deep Research: Baidu says it will make Ernie open source and Ernie Bot free
Early version of o3 wows on Codeforces and IOI tests. Adobe debuts integrated Firefly web app with new video model. Mistral’s Arabic-language Saba model scores high on benchmarks. LM2 updates the transformer architecture with dedicated memory.
Data Points
OpenAI reveals simplified model roadmap: Thomson Reuters ruling constrains fair use claims
Apple and Alibaba strike an AI deal. Building a reasoning model without using chain of thought. Torque clustering may enable better, faster autonomous learning. Remaking BERT without using task-specific heads.
Letters
The Difference Between “AI Safety” and “Responsible AI”: Talk about “AI safety” obscures an important point; AI isn't inherently unsafe. Instead, let’s talk about “responsible AI.”
At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “I’m not here to talk about AI safety.
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OpenAI Does Deep Research, Google Goes to War, Alibaba Answers DeepSeek, Web Agents Do Tree Search
The Batch AI News and Insights: At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “I’m not here to talk about AI safety.
Machine Learning Research
Tree Search for Web Agents: How tree search improves AI agents’ ability to browse the web and complete tasks
Browsing the web to achieve a specific goal can be challenging for agents based on large language models and even for vision-language models that can process onscreen images of a browser.
Machine Learning Research
Alibaba’s Answer to DeepSeek: Alibaba debuts Qwen2.5-VL, a powerful family of open vision-language models
While Hangzhou’s DeepSeek flexed its muscles, Chinese tech giant Alibaba vied for the spotlight with new open vision-language models.
Tech & Society
Google Joins AI Peers In Military Work: Google revises AI principles, lifting ban on weapons and surveillance applications
Google revised its AI principles, reversing previous commitments to avoid work on weapons, surveillance, and other military applications beyond non-lethal uses like communications, logistics, and medicine.
Machine Learning Research
Agents Go Deep: OpenAI’s Deep Research agent generates detailed reports by analyzing web sources
OpenAI introduced a state-of-the-art agent that produces research reports by scouring the web and reasoning over what it finds.