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AI tools: Free vs. Paid

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Reuters: the U.S. is preparing to tell 35 AI partners they can’t also join competing China-led initiatives. If finalized, the AI race moves beyond chips and models toward rival technology blocs spanning compute, minerals and capital.

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Reuters: Apple has trained its own China-specific LLM with Alibaba’s support. It could sit alongside Qwen in Apple Intelligence, giving Apple more control over its China AI stack. Neither company has confirmed it publicly.

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Brad Lightcap is leaving OpenAI after 8 years to start a new venture. He hasn’t revealed what he’s building yet, but Sam Altman says they expect to work together. One of OpenAI’s key early operators is now becoming a founder.

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NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: open 30B MoE (3B active) built for high-volume agent tasks. Up to 4x faster output, runs local-to-cloud, fully customizable. Paired with open NeMo Switchyard router for efficient multi-model agents. #nvidea

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Huawei's laptop can scan documents directly from paper

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Jensen Huang says that AI offers a level of opportunity comparable to the internet decades ago, enabling founders to shape the next wave of defining companies. He holds that major shifts in technology reset competition, letting startups forge new industries.

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BYD will soon introduce its humanoid robot; competition with Tesla has entered a new phase.

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What happens when a PS5 Pro meets a 90s CRT display?

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Skip the repellent. Engineers designed a 40-gram Al hunter drone that tracks and eliminates mosquitoes in flight.

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Fish Audio Raised $52 Million to Challenge ElevenLabs