Since last week was a bit slow, here's the AI news roundup from the past 2 weeks. What did I miss? – @AnthropicAI
's Claude can now create and edit Excel, Word, PowerPoint & PDF docs
– @NotebookLM launched new audio formatting for source overviews
– ByteDance dropped Seedream 4.0
BIG TECH
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AI News Roundup: Claude, NotebookLM, ByteDance Updates
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Isomorphic Labs advances AI-designed drug candidates for healthcare
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Helping to improve human health is one of the most important uses of AI. Insightful discussion with @TomMackenzieTV on Bloomberg Tech Europe of our great progress @IsomorphicLabs designing new drug candidates for challenging targets.
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Meta Releases MobileLLM-R1: Compact Edge Reasoning Model Under 1B Parameters
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Meta just dropped MobileLLM-R1 on Hugging Face a edge reasoning model with fewer than 1B parameters 2×–5× Performance Boost over other fully open-source models: MobileLLM-R1 achieves ~5× higher MATH accuracy vs. Olmo-1.24B, and ~2× vs. SmolLM2-1.7B. Uses just 1/10 the
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OpenAI Microsoft Partnership Converts to MOU Agreement
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Le partenariat D' @OpenAI avec @Microsoft va devenir MOU
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Mars Biosignatures, Starlink Spectrum, and AI Breakthroughs
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Biosignatures on Mars.
Starlink gets spectrum.
Alterego makes telepathy-like tech.
Soft robots move with magnets & batteries.
Palmer Luckey takes delivery of first Jetson ONE. + Good AI: Math, Inc., Oboe, Replit Agent 3 Sad week for America.
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Critique of Eric Coquerel’s Economic Knowledge
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@ericcoquerel does not know what Mistral is nor who Arthur Mensch is. 1: This demonstrates he has never opened a business newspaper in his life.
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Apple’s Vague EU Compliance Communication Under Scrutiny
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come on dude… your framing is wrong and u know it the feat will come, EU just wants to make sure apple aligns with our rules their communication is vague on purpose sad to see u amplifying that narrative instead of holding apple accountable for a clear compliance timeline
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GDPR and Big Tech Language Data Privacy Concerns
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because RGPD gafam don't have to know language of the users… (i'm joking but they probably not)
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Elon Musk and Optimus Robots: A 1 Trillion Dollar Fortune
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Elon Musk could earn 1 trillion dollars if his Optimus humanoid robots take off. Megalomaniac science fiction?
No: it's the conviction that humanoids will replace our muscles and our brains. My latest article co-written with
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Anthropic Launches New Memory Feature Similar to OpenAI
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And an update, since it turns out Anthropic announced a new memory feature yesterday that's more similar to how OpenAI's works https://
anthropic.com/news/memory