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Google DeepMind AI for Organizations Grand Challenge Launch
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HAI and @GoogleDeepMind invite scholars to submit bold ideas on how AI can improve and reimagine organizations. Join our virtual Q&A tomorrow to learn more about the AI for Organizations Grand Challenge: 9 am PT: http://
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Nvidia Presents Autoregressive Universal Video Segmentation Model
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Nvidia presents Autoregressive Universal Segmentation Model
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Anthropic Launches National Security Advisory Council for AI Leadership
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We're announcing the Anthropic National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council, a bipartisan group of defense, intelligence, and policy experts who will help us support the U.S. government and closely allied democracies in maintaining our AI leadership.
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Musk’s xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI Over Alleged AI App Store Bias
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XAI de Musk poursuit Apple et OpenAI pour biais dans l'App Store d'IA xAI, l'entreprise d'Elon Musk , poursuit Apple et OpenAI en justice , les accusant de s'être associés pour bloquer la concurrence dans le secteur de l'IA. La plainte affirme qu'Apple privilégie ChatGPT
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Anthropic Addresses AI Cybercrime Threat Intelligence Disruption
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Watch Jacob Klein and Alex Moix from Anthropic's Threat Intelligence team discuss what Anthropic is doing to disrupt AI cybercrime:
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Anthropic disrupts AI-enabled cybercrime schemes in threat intelligence report
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Our new Threat Intelligence report details how we’ve identified and disrupted sophisticated attempts to use Claude for cybercrime. We describe a fraudulent employment scheme from North Korea, the sale of AI-created ransomware by someone with only basic coding skills, and more.
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Anthropic Launches Claude for Chrome Browser Extension
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Anthropic just launched Claude for Chrome, enabling agentic browsing via a new extension
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 27 août 2025
It is being piloted via a waitlist exclusively for 1,000 Claude Max subscribers in a limited preview
Comet and Dia are soon going to have some serious competitionpic.twitter.com/7ewJMiodTFAnthropic just launched Claude for Chrome, enabling agentic browsing via a new extension It is being piloted via a waitlist exclusively for 1,000 Claude Max subscribers in a limited preview Comet and Dia are soon going to have some serious competition
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Alibaba Releases Wan2.2-S2V Open-Source Speech-to-Video Model
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Alibaba just dropped Wan2.2-S2V, a 14B parameter speech-to-video model
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 27 août 2025
The AI delivers film-grade, audio-driven videos with dynamic consistency, advanced motion, and environment control
And, it's fully open-sourcepic.twitter.com/S5QgPrb43hAlibaba just dropped Wan2.2-S2V, a 14B parameter speech-to-video model The AI delivers film-grade, audio-driven videos with dynamic consistency, advanced motion, and environment control And, it's fully open-source
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OpenAI Deprecates Assistants API, Migrates to Responses API
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OpenAI announced it is deprecating the Assistants API, with plans to wind it down by August 26, 2026 Its features are now folded into the Responses API, with users recommended to use it to integrate with the OpenAI API today