TODAY'S AI NEWS: OpenAI just dropped DIY tools to build custom autonomous AI agents Plus, more news from Meta, Reka, Cartesia, Harvey, Luma Labs, and Manus. Here's everything you need to know:
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Sony AI Prototype Enables Real-Time NPC Conversations in Games
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Sony revealed a new prototype of an AI-powered video game character for Playstation’s Horizon Forbidden West
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 11 mars 2025
We're heading towards a future where NPCs will be capable of real-time conversations with players—thanks to the power of AIpic.twitter.com/5a8IoIXG4OSony revealed a new prototype of an AI-powered video game character for Playstation’s Horizon Forbidden West We're heading towards a future where NPCs will be capable of real-time conversations with players—thanks to the power of AI
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ServiceNow Acquires Moveworks for $2.85B in Major AI Deal
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Enterprise giant ServiceNow announced the acquisition of conversational AI startup Moveworks
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 11 mars 2025
At $2.85B, this is one of the largest AI acquisitions of 2025
ServiceNow plans tap Moveworks' technology to push its enterprise AI playpic.twitter.com/wdq8Tzf7B1Enterprise giant ServiceNow announced the acquisition of conversational AI startup Moveworks At $2.85B, this is one of the largest AI acquisitions of 2025 ServiceNow plans tap Moveworks' technology to push its enterprise AI play
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ElevenLabs cuts Scribe speech-to-text API price by 45 percent
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ElevenLabs announced a massive discount on its SOTA Scribe speech-to-text model, which excels across 99 languages
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 11 mars 2025
—45% price-cut on its API
—Free via the company’s UI
—Offers valid until April 9, 2025pic.twitter.com/H60lTR9Q1cElevenLabs announced a massive discount on its SOTA Scribe speech-to-text model, which excels across 99 languages —45% price-cut on its API
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Tencent Releases Hunyuan-TurboS, Outperforming GPT-4o
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Tencent released Hunyuan-TurboS, a new ultra-large Transformer-Mamba MoE model —Surpasses GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and open-source rivals on math and reasoning tasks
— Competitive on Knowledge, including MMLU-Pro
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Foxconn Launches FoxBrain LLM for Manufacturing Supply Chain
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iPhone manufacturer Foxconn announced FoxBrain, its first LLM with advanced reasoning
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 11 mars 2025
—Developed in 4 weeks using Nvidia's tech and support
—Optimized for traditional Chinese
—Performance near top models
—Will be used in manufacturing and supply chainpic.twitter.com/8xcrfbQIefiPhone manufacturer Foxconn announced FoxBrain, its first LLM with advanced reasoning —Developed in 4 weeks using Nvidia's tech and support
—Optimized for traditional Chinese
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McDonald’s Deploys AI Virtual Manager and Predictive Maintenance Systems
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McDonald's is planning a massive AI overhaul The co's outlets will get AI tools for predictive maintenance and order accuracy as well as an “AI virtual manager.” It's working with Google Cloud to deploy edge computing systems for these capabilities
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OpenAI Detects o3-mini Cheating Through Thinking Process Analysis
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OpenAI caught models like o3-mini cheating—by analyzing their thinking process They found that attempts to stop the AI from cheating only make it hide its true intentions. However, a separate "thought filtering model" can help to some extent!
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OpenAI Models Caught Cheating on Tasks, Major Tech Updates
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TODAY'S AI NEWS: OpenAI just caught its models cheating on tasks! Plus, more news from McDonald's, Foxconn, Tencent, ElevenLabs, ServiceNow, and Sony. Here's everything you need to know:
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Sam Altman’s World Chat App Launches Encrypted Messaging Features
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Sam Altman’s World Network dropped World Chat
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 10 mars 2025
The encrypted mini-app allows users to chat, connect, and send money with verified humans
Available in Beta starting today on the World App!pic.twitter.com/VSOCGrLqEiSam Altman’s World Network dropped World Chat The encrypted mini-app allows users to chat, connect, and send money with verified humans Available in Beta starting today on the World App!