In Pursuit of Godlike Technology, Mark Zuckerberg Amps Up the #AI Race
BIG TECH
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US Export Restrictions Delay DeepSeek R2 Development
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DeepSeek R2 prend du retard. D’après The Information, les restrictions à l’exportation imposées par les États-Unis ont ralenti le développement du successeur du modèle révolutionnaire DeepSeek R1. Malgré des mois de travail intensif, le PDG Liang Wenfeng juge que R2 n’est pas
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Apple Perplexity Deal: AI Memory Wars and Browser OS Future
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In 5 hours I'm sharing with over 40,000 @LoreBrief readers my thoughts on the AI Memory Wars, and why I think Apple's rumored Perplexity acquisition isn't about search. It's about browsers with AI + memory becoming the new OS. Mentioned in the issue: @PerplexityComet
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Google Releases Gemma 3n Open Model with Developer Guide and Competition
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@Google Gemma 3n open model is now fully available for developers. See this guide: https://
developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing
-gemma-3n-developer-guide/
… Kaggle competition ($150,000 in total prizes): https://
kaggle.com/competitions/g
oogle-gemma-3n-hackathon
… 𝓓𝓮𝓽𝓪𝓲𝓵𝓼: What it is: The latest in the popular Gemma family of open models, but built on a -
OpenAI DevDay 2025 Announced for October 6 in San Francisco
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Save the date: Oct 6, 2025 for our biggest @OpenAI DevDay yet! See you in SF or on the livestream!
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OpenAI DevDay 2025: 1500+ developers, keynote, hands-on training
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OpenAI DevDay
Oct 6, 2025 in San Francisco Our biggest one yet:
– 1500+ developers
– Livestreamed opening keynote
– Hands-on building with our latest models & tools
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US Court Rules LLM Training on Copyrighted Books Fair Use
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On Monday, a United States District Court ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted books constitutes fair use. A number of authors had filed suit against Anthropic for training its models on their books without permission. Just as we allow people to read books and learn from them
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Google DeepMind and robotics leaders advance AI-powered robot innovation
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Top stories in robotics today: – Google DeepMind’s on-device robot AI
– Apptronik’s ‘superhuman’ robotics spin-off
– MIT fast-tracks robot design with generative AI – Eco-friendly bots made from rice paper
– Quick hits on other robotics news Read more: https://
robotnews.therundown.ai/p/google-deepm
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SigLIP 2: DeepMind’s New Multilingual Vision-Language Model
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SigLIP 2: DeepMind’s Multilingual Vision-Language Model Google DeepMind just dropped SigLIP 2! These new multilingual vision-language encoders are a game-changer for AI. Better understanding, localization & fairness. Get the quick rundown on our blog:
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Google’s Backwards Incompatible Python SDK Changes Frustrate Developers
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Yeah but this inclination doesn't make it all the way to users in other companies. They deprecated their previous Python SDK, google-generativeai, for a new totally backwards incompatible one called google-genai. It appears Google have no intention of living down the accusations.