#AI
Posts tagged #AI – 20 posts.
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Record Eight Pulitzer Winners Disclosed AI Use in 2026
Five Pulitzer Prize winners and three finalists disclosed to the judging board this year that they used artificial intelligence in their award-winning work, Nieman Lab reports. Eight disclosures is…
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Germany's biggest AI missteps: asleep and scattered
Germany has not failed at a single point in artificial intelligence – it has become entangled over the years in a chain of decisions, the consequences of which are now, in mid-2026, clearly visible…
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Claude Reflect: Anthropic's new usage dashboard
Anthropic introduced a new beta feature for Claude called "Reflect" on July 9, 2026. It is designed to show users how they actually use the AI assistant – with which topics, at what times, and to…
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Cloudflare now allows AI bots to be controlled by purpose
Cloudflare provides all customers with new tools to more precisely control access from AI bots to their websites. Instead of only choosing between "block all AI crawlers" or "allow," website…
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ZCode: Zhipus GLM-5.2 challenges Claude Code
The Chinese AI company Zhipu AI (Z.ai) is now positioning its affordable model GLM-5.2 as a competitor to Claude Code and OpenAI Codex in the field of agentic programming tools. With ZCode, the…
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China regulates AI companions as the first in the world
ByteDance and Alibaba are disabling key features of their AI chatbots in China that allowed users to create their own human-like AI companions and chat with them. The move is a direct response to new…
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Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200
Tesla limits its employees' AI spending to $200 per week – just a few months after the company had actively encouraged the workforce to intensify AI usage. According to an internal memo first…
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Mistral CEO Mensch warns against closed AI models
Mistral founder and CEO Arthur Mensch warns companies against relying on closed AI models from large providers. Providers of such models are increasingly storing customer data, thereby gaining deep…
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AI Private Schools Conquer the US Money Elite
Wealthy US families are increasingly turning away from traditional schools and instead sending their children to AI-powered private schools. As Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Bindley reports…
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Baidu's Unlimited OCR transcribes entire books in one go
Baidu has introduced "Unlimited OCR," an open-source model for document recognition that can transcribe entire books in a single pass without the memory requirements increasing with the document…
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Why the AI leadership position now changes every seven weeks
OpenAI's GPT-4 held the top position in a highly regarded AI performance index for about a year – significantly longer than any model thereafter. Since Claude 3 Opus surpassed GPT-4 in February 2024…
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Meta restricts Claude Code and Codex due to distillation fears
Meta restricts the use of Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex by its own engineers, according to internal documents. The reason is the concern that outputs from these external AI tools could…
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Seedance: ByteDance's AI tool divides and conquers Hollywood
ByteDance's AI video model Seedance creates a paradoxical situation in Hollywood: officially, the major studios are legally fighting the tool over what they see as systematic copyright violations. At…
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Anthropic: AI Drug Discovery for Neglected Diseases
Anthropic has announced that it will operate its own drug development programs in the future – specifically for diseases that are economically unattractive for the traditional pharmaceutical and…
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pxpipe: How an Image Trick Lowers Claude Code Costs
An open-source tool called pxpipe exploits a peculiarity in Anthropic's pricing model: images are billed by pixel size, not by their text content. Developer Steven Chong has built a local proxy for…
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Meta: Watermelon model is said to have caught up to GPT-5.5
Meta is apparently positioning itself more strongly in the race for the most powerful AI models again. According to a report by Business Insider, Alexandr Wang, head of Meta Superintelligence Labs…
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Gartner: $234 Billion SaaS Spending at Risk from Agentic AI
Agentic AI is changing the way companies buy and use software. According to a recent forecast by the market research firm Gartner, by 2030, up to $234 billion of global spending on enterprise…
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GITEX AI Europe in Berlin Ends After Just Two Editions
The second edition of GITEX AI Europe in Berlin was apparently also the last. According to the Berliner Morgenpost, organizer Kaoun International has terminated its contract with Messe Berlin …
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AI Bug-Hunting Sends Number of Reported CVEs Soaring
In June 2026, 21 major tech companies reported around 1,500 high- or critical-severity security vulnerabilities – more than 3.5 times the previous record month. That is according to a recent analysis…
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EU AI Act: AI transparency obligations apply from August 2, 2026
As of August 2, 2026, binding transparency obligations for Artificial Intelligence will apply throughout the EU. The basis is Article 50 of the AI Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), which has…
