How do global policymakers envision the future of AI? This week, we hosted Executive Vice President of the European Commission @HennaVirkkunen for a fireside chat with HAI Senior Fellow Susan Athey to explore Europe’s key AI policy priorities.
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Google AI Studio launches Veo 2, Gemini 2.0 and Imagen 3
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Say hello to the new generative media experience in Google AI Studio, bringing together Veo 2, Gemini 2.0 native image generation / editing, and now Imagen 3 (with more to come). All of these models are free to try in AI Studio and ready for devs to build with in the API!!
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Series A Funding for AI Expert Intelligence Platform in Finance
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Big news: We’re announcing our Series A led by NEA and $43.5m in funding to build the future of expert intelligence in finance. Led by @NEA with support from visionaries like @ericschmidt, @ylecun, David Siegel, and Marty Chavez. Trusted by premier financial institutions like
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OpenAI Launches Codex: AI Agent for Parallel Software Engineering Tasks
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Coding is about to change forever. We’re launching a research preview of Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on many tasks in parallel. Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of OpenAI o3 optimized for software engineering.
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CEO Fab Named Top 25 AI Executive 2025
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Thrilled to share that our CEO, @FabAroundEU
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Meta Platforms Emerges as Major Internet Fraud Economy Hub
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Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is increasingly a cornerstone of the internet fraud economy https://
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CIFAR Students and Postdocs Built AI at Tesla DeepMind OpenAI
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And by the way most of the content was produced by amazing CIFAR students and postdocts like @ilyasut @karpathy @goodfellow_ian @sedielem @notmisha @jaschasd
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ByteDance’s small Seed1.5 model beats Claude and Gemini in vision tasks
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ByteDance takes the lead on vision models: small (~21B) Seed1.5 beats behemoths like Claude 🔥
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ByteDance just released the technical report for their new model Seed 1.5, that achieves performance on vision tasks on par with the current king Gemini-2.5-Pro (leaving OpenAI o1 and… pic.twitter.com/gx631UzBm7ByteDance takes the lead on vision models: small (~21B) Seed1.5 beats behemoths like Claude ByteDance just released the technical report for their new model Seed 1.5, that achieves performance on vision tasks on par with the current king Gemini-2.5-Pro (leaving OpenAI o1 and
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Oil-Backed Bubble: UAE Saudi Funding Generative AI Boom
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I want people to write about how the generative AI bubble is subsidized by oil money from the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
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Grok addresses rogue employee security incident with process improvements
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official update from grok tldr: was rogue employee, will fix internal process