4. Figure AI sued by ex-safety chief over alleged robot dangers A whistleblower claims Figure’s humanoid robots are powerful enough to “fracture a human skull” and cites a malfunction that gashed a steel refrigerator door. Figure denies all allegations.
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Yann LeCun Leaves Meta to Launch Advanced Machine Intelligence Startup
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3. Yann LeCun exits Meta after 12 years to build a new startup Meta’s Chief AI Scientist and FAIR founder is leaving at year-end to pursue his AMI (Advanced Machine Intelligence) vision, building AI that understands the physical world, reasons deeply, and plans complex actions.
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DeepSeek-Math-V2 Reaches Gold Medal Performance on Putnam
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2. DeepSeek’s math model reaches gold-medal performance DeepSeek-Math-V2, an open-source MoE model, scored 118/120 on the 2024 Putnam (above top human competitors) and hit gold-level performance on IMO 2025 problems. Open-source reasoning keeps getting scarier.
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Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.5 with Enhanced Enterprise Capabilities
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1. Anthropic drops Claude Opus 4.5, its strongest model yet The new Opus boosts coding, reasoning, and agentic workflows, adds Chrome + Excel integrations, and slashes prices versus Opus 4.1. A clear push for enterprise dominance.
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Major AI Breakthroughs: Opus 4.5, DeepSeek Math, OpenAI Tools
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Another wild week in AI – Anthropic drops Opus 4.5
– DeepSeek hits gold-medal math
– Yann LeCun exits Meta
– Figure AI faces lawsuit
– Sutskever hints SSI monetization
– OpenAI debuts shopping tools
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Apple Overtakes Samsung; MIT Studies AI Job Impact
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Top stories in tech today: – Apple set to overtake Samsung for top spot
– MIT says AI is ready for 12% of jobs
– Alibaba launches Meta-rivaling AI glasses
– China rescues astronauts stranded on space station
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AI in Education, Healthcare Tools, and Workforce Impact
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Top stories in AI today: – Karpathy's advice for the AI classroom
– Harvard AI finds disease-causing DNA mutations
– Turn UI into landing page with Gemini 3
– Hidden AI iceberg hitting workforce
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AI scaling age, Flux.2 image tools, productivity growth trends
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Top stories in AI today: – Ilya Sutskever on AI's 'age of scaling'
– Black Forest Labs’ Flux.2 image AI
– Use ChatGPT shopping research to bag deals
– AI could double U.S. productivity growth
– 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more Read more: https://
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AI Chips, Brain-Computer Interfaces, and Tech Layoffs
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Top stories in tech today: – Scientists decode brain-gut connection
– Apple’s sales team hit by rare layoffs
– McKinsey: This is how AI is changing work
– Tesla says its next AI chip is almost ready
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Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5, OpenAI Shopping, U.S. Genesis Mission
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Top stories in AI today: – Anthropic drops new Claude Opus 4.5
– OpenAI’s shopping feature in ChatGPT
– Vibe code a software using Bolt
– U.S. ‘Genesis Mission’ for AI science breakthroughs
– 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more Read more: https://
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