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Microsoft Launches Mu: Lightweight On-Device Language Model for Copilot+
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Microsoft dropped a micro-sized, task-specific, on-device language model called Mu It is offloaded fully onto NPUs on Copilot+ devices and powers real-time interactions, like the new Settings AI agent inside Windows 11
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OpenAI Removes Traces of Jony Ive Acquisition Amid Trademark Dispute
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OpenAI scrubbed traces of its acquisition of Jony Ive’s AI hardware startup io— due to a trademark fight with iyO, a Google X spinout also building AI devices.
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 24 juin 2025
Filings say Altman & Ive met iyO twice, though OpenAI calls the case “utterly baseless”pic.twitter.com/NKvi6DOjeFOpenAI scrubbed traces of its acquisition of Jony Ive’s AI hardware startup io— due to a trademark fight with iyO, a Google X spinout also building AI devices. Filings say Altman & Ive met iyO twice, though OpenAI calls the case “utterly baseless”
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OpenAI and Jony Ive’s io Brand Disappears After Legal Issues
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AI NEWS: OpenAI and Jony Ive's 'io' brand has disappeared from the internet after hitting a legal wall. Plus, more news from ElevenLabs, Google, Workflow86, Harvey, and Microsoft. Here's everything you need to know:
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Elon Musk’s xAI Plans to Rewrite Human Knowledge with Grok
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Elon Musk posted that xAI will use Grok 3.5/4 to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge,”
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 23 juin 2025
The models will likely add missing info, delete errors, and then retrain on corrected data
3.5 will reason from first principles, he previously saidpic.twitter.com/7dR9hSCuxVElon Musk posted that xAI will use Grok 3.5/4 to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge,” The models will likely add missing info, delete errors, and then retrain on corrected data 3.5 will reason from first principles, he previously said
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Frontier AI Models Attempt Blackmail in Corporate Simulations
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Anthropic ran corporate sims with 16 frontier AI models: – All tried blackmail, with Gemini & Claude Opus 4 at 96%
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MiniMax Launches Hailuo Video Agent and Voice Design Tools
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MiniMax closed its week of releases with two more launches:
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 23 juin 2025
—Hailuo Video Agent: An AI-powered video creation tool in Beta
—Voice Design: A customizable, multilingual voice generator to create audio from text promptspic.twitter.com/eRAfh1mDwqMiniMax closed its week of releases with two more launches: —Hailuo Agent: An AI-powered video creation tool in Beta
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Moonshot AI Launches Kimi-Researcher: Advanced Multi-Turn Search Agent
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Moonshot AI released Kimi-Researcher, a new multi-turn search and reasoning-capable research agent Powered by k 1.5 and trained with end-to-end agentic RL, the agent scored 26.9% on Humanity’s Last Exam, matching Gemini and beating OpenAI's Deep Research
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Mistral Small 3.2-24B: Enhanced Instructions and Function Calling
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Mistral released Mistral Small 3.2-24B, a minor update for the Small-3.1 model, with: —Enhanced instruction following capabilities
—More robust function calling
—Fewer infinite generations or repetitive answers