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Claude now works across all three major Office apps

Anthropic brings Claude directly into Microsoft Word. Anthropic already offered Claude add-ins for Excel and PowerPoint. Now the company is rounding out its Microsoft Office integration with a Word ...
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Anthropic seeks advice from Christian leaders on Claude's moral and spiritual behavior

Anthropic invited roughly 15 Christian leaders from Catholic and Protestant churches, academia, and business to a two-day summit at the end of March. According to the Washington Post, the $380 billion ...
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The operator behind the AI agent that defamed an open-source developer calls it a "social experiment"

The anonymous person behind the AI agent "MJ Rathbun," who defamed an open-source developer, has come forward. The operator of the AI agent "MJ Rathbun," the one that wrote a defamatory article about ...
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Alibaba's Qwen team makes AI models think deeper with new algorithm

Alibaba's Qwen team has developed a new training algorithm for reasoning models that assigns different weights to individual tokens based on how much each step influences the subsequent chain of ...
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AI benchmarks systematically ignore how humans disagree, Google study finds

A Google study finds that the standard three to five human raters per test example often aren't enough for reliable AI ...
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Anthropic signs multi-gigawatt TPU deal with Google and Broadcom

Anthropic has signed a deal with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of TPU computing capacity, set to come online starting in 2027. Most of the infrastructure will be built in the United ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Google now offers Ultra subscribers video generation with Veo 3.1 Lite at no extra credit cost On May 10, Google will drop the current "Veo 3.1 Fast - Lower Priority" option ...
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Deepfakes: How it all began - and where it could lead us

AI-faked images and videos - so-called deepfakes - have developed rapidly in recent years. Here, we trace the history and describe the most important milestones. What do all the people in the cover ...
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Meta Neuroscientist King: "Some of the concepts like reasoning may need to be re-evaluated"

The neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King leads the Brain & AI team in Meta’s AI division. In an interview with The Decoder, he discusses the connection between AI and neuroscience, the challenges of ...
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Meta's new AI model predicts how your brain reacts to images, sounds, and speech

A new AI model from Meta predicts how the human brain reacts to images, sounds, and speech. In tests, it often matched the typical brain response better than any single person's scan. Brain research ...
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Google AI Studio now lets you vibe code real-time multiplayer games

Google has launched a new vibe coding feature in Google AI Studio that lets non-programmers and programmers alike turn ideas into working apps using natural language. Users describe what they want, ...