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Perplexity open-sources embedding models that match Google and Alibaba at a fraction of the memory cost

Perplexity has released two open-source embedding models, pplx-embed-v1 and pplx-embed-context-v1, designed to convert search queries and documents into numerical vectors for preselecting relevant ...
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Meta signs multi-billion dollar deal to rent Google's TPUs in a direct challenge to Nvidia's AI chip dominance

Meta has signed a multi-year, multi-billion dollar contract with Google to rent its AI chips—Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)—for developing new AI models. That's according to The Information. Meta is ...
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Figma and OpenAI connect design and code through new Codex integration

A new integration links Figma's design platform directly with OpenAI's Codex. Teams can automatically generate editable Figma designs from code and convert designs into working code. It runs on the ...
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Claude Code now remembers your fixes, your preferences, and your project quirks on its own

Claude Code now remembers what it learns across sessions - automatically tracking debugging patterns, project context, and preferred working methods without manual input. Previously, users had to log ...
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OpenAI's up to $110 billion raise lines up almost exactly with the $111 billion it just added to its cash burn forecast

Update, February 27, 2026, evening: According to The Information, OpenAI expects to raise an additional $10 billion from financial investors by the end of March. That would push the post-investment ...
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Google Deepmind and OpenAI employees demand Anthropic-style red lines on Pentagon surveillance and autonomous weapons

Anthropic's dispute with the Pentagon is now rippling through Google and OpenAI. According to the New York Times, more than 100 Google AI employees sent a letter to chief scientist Jeff Dean—who had ...
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An OpenClaw AI agent asked to delete a confidential email nuked its own mail client and called it fixed

In a two-week red teaming study, researchers targeted six autonomous AI agents built on the open-source framework OpenClaw, which had access to email, shell rights, and their own memory systems.
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Stargate's $500 billion AI infrastructure project reportedly stalls over unresolved disputes between OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank

The Stargate AI data center project worth $500 billion, announced by US President Donald Trump in January 2025, is reportedly running into serious trouble. More than a year after the announcement, the ...
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Hollywood's MPA calls Bytedance's Seedance 2.0 a machine built for "systemic infringement"

Update from February 22, 2026: Bytedance's promises (see below) apparently aren't cutting it for Hollywood. The Motion Picture Association has sent the company a cease-and-desist letter over Seedance ...
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OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman donates $25 million to Trump's MAGA Inc. super PAC

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has donated $25 million to MAGA Inc., Donald Trump's super PAC, according to a Bloomberg report citing FEC filings. The donation is part of $102 million ...
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Project Gumdrop: OpenAI's first AI gadget could send handwritten notes to ChatGPT

OpenAI has reportedly shifted production of its first AI hardware device from Luxshare to Foxconn. The company wants to avoid manufacturing in China, according to Taiwanese business newspaper Economic ...
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Resemble AI drops Chatterbox Turbo, an open-source text-to-speech model that clones voices in five seconds

AI startup Resemble AI is taking on Elevenlabs with "Chatterbox Turbo," an open text-to-speech model that can clone voices from just five seconds of audio. The company claims its new model beats both ...